The Globe. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1874

Globe, Volume I, Issue 88, 11 September 1874, Page 2

The Globe. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1874

Tile speech of Mr Eolleston at Papanui last night, will no doubt be circulated throughout New Zealand, and read by a large quantity of people besides the public of Canterbury. The speech itself is not one of Mr Eolleston’s happiest efforts, and throughout it there runs a vein of hopelessness with regard to making any stand against the policy which has the present Premier as its exponent. That Mr Eolleston strongly disapproves of very many of Mr Yogel’s acts and measures we are all aware, and he paid a tribute last night to Mr Vogel’s great opponent on several questions of vital importance, Mr Stafford. He expressed a regret that the whisper that Mr Stafford intended to retire from public life was supposed to be true, and we can cordially agree with him in his feeling that if such is the case, New Zealand will lose from her councils one of her most able public men, and one, on whom the imputation of seeking office for the sake of unworthy motives has never rested for a moment. Mr Eolleston gave an account of the measures he had introduced into the House of Eepresentatives for the good of the province, and we are quite sure that his constituents will recognise the fact that they have never had a harder-working member to represent them in the House. Mr Eolleston spoke in a manner in which every one, no matter whether he he a supporter or an opponent of Mr Vogel’s, must agree with him, in reference to that gentleman’s proposed exp-edition to England. Committed as the colony is, to a policy and its consequent expenditure, of which Mr Vogel is the mainspring, and the success of which demands that the author of the scheme should not leave his post until we are in a position to say as to whether it will be successful or not, it seems to us to be something monstrous, that at one of the most critical times in the history of New Zealand, with vital changes in the constitution hanging over us, the author of all this wild work should leave for a trip to the other side of the world. Eemembering, as every oue in the country must, the consequence of 3lr Vogel's last

voyage, we look forward, with fear and trembling, to the new contracts to which the colony will surely find itself bound on Mr Vogel’s return. With regard to the Polynesian scheme which the Premier dangled before the eyes of the Auckland people, during the last session, Mr Eolleston also spoke deprecating! y, and whilst admitting that he “ might not bo of a speculative turn of mind (of which, by the way, h.o bnterest opponent, in his wildest dreams, never accused him), thought that we ought to do the work which we had in hand, and do it well, before rushing into new projects The only point on which Mr Eolleston seemed to be satisfied with the Premier, was that as an administrator he was prompt and business like, and Mr Vogel has invariably received the same compliment from any members who have been personally connected with him in the carrying out of any of his varied schemes. With reference to what Mr Eolleston has done himself during the session, he has given -his constituents a full account, and the only large question, about which very little is said, is that of immigration. It is a well known fact that our present Superintendent takes a large share of the work of the Immigration Department on to his own shoulders, and we should like to have been favored with a fuller account of what Mr Eolleston thinks of the working of the department, and what improvements are necessary in the system as at present carried on. We have no doubt, however, that he will touch on this subject at some early date, and we shall wait for his views on this question with much anxiety.