Sir Julius Vogel before the Electors

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 63, 27 November 1886, Page 2

Sir Julius Yogel before the Electors

(PBR UNITED PRESS \SSOCIArION.) La whence. This Day. Sir Julius Yogel was entertained at a banquet here yesterday, and in the evening addressed a crowded meeting. He referred at length to the mining industry of the colony, and regretted that the Gold Duty Beduction Bill was thrown out by the Legislative Council. Ho hoped it -would pass next year. He recognised that the construction at railways would only be successful when associated with settlement of land. It was too early in the recess to give them a forecast of the coming political measures. They might depend on the Government continuing to show the greatest possible attention to that cardinal point of their policy — develment and encouragement of colonial industries. He did not allude to protection of any particular interest, but the Government believed the prosperity of the Colony largely depended upon satisfactory employment being available, and that the colony possessed preeminently the means of affording encouragement to those willing to work. It -was an open secret that the revenue had not realised expectations ; the chief shortcoming being m customs, and that was largely due to the more temperate habits of the people. The Government were making eSoi-ts to retrench as far as possible without imparing efficiency. Had ne Bpoken to them last year, he should have gone very largely into the question of railway construction and future works, the last loan had not yielded a satisfactory price, and he anticipated Parliament would deem it wise, for some time to. come, to carry only to completion any railways already authorised, and to abstain so far as possible from going to the London markets for fresh loans. Sir J. Yogel received a vote of thanks.