The Globe. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1874.

Globe, Volume I, Issue 92, 16 September 1874, Page 2

The Globe. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1874.

Bt this time Mr Vogel is on his way to Sydney, and the colony will be without the Premier of its choice for the next seven months. Before going away, however, Mr Vogel addressed a meeting of his constituents, and explained some matters to them and to the newspaper readers throughout New Zealand. The meeting seems to have been hurriedly got up, and judging from the telegraphic reports we publish to-day, there seems to have been a good deal of interruption during the speech made by Mr Vogel. As was natural, the Premier referred at length to the Polynesian scheme,

and the unnumbered benefits which it was to confer on the province of Auckland. We are not, however, informed of the details which he furnished to his audience, and must wait for the Northern papers before we can read what these benefits are to be. Mr Vogel then went on to give some explanation of his leaving New Zealand at this most critical period in her history. His first object is to arrange for the laying of a telegraphic cable between Australia and New Zealand. Every one admits that this cable must be laid, and that it ought to be done as soon as possible ; but is it necessary that the Premier himself should go away for the purpobe of entering into the necessary negociations ? There are many men of business who are followers of Mr Vogel, and surely it would not have been hard to find amongst these, one svho might be trusted with the powers necessary for entering into a contract for a cable. The question is almost entirely a mercantile one, and the business might just as easily have been settled by one of the Premier's satellites as by himself. Mr Vogel then observed that, though the conduct of the immigration department was now satisfactory, (is it?) circumstances at home rendered it necessary for a Minister to confer with the Agent-General, in order to obviate the irritating correspondence of the past. Is Dr Featherstone such a man to deal with, that it requires the head of the Government in the colony to proceed to England, for the purpose of having a verbal explauation with him, relative to the correspondence which must pass between the office in London and the Government here? If this is indeed the case, the sooner we have a new Agent-General the better. We then come to the third reason for this trip, and we find that this " has re- " ference to financial matters which " could not well be dealt with by cor- " respondence." This is all the information that we are favored with, and judging from past events, he will be a bold man, who will deny that Mr Vogel cannot, on the strength of this mysterious sentence, raise afresh loan, and so add to the already tremendous indebtedness of the colony. The Premier seems to have been under the impression that his policy might not have found favour in the eyes of his constituents, and accordingly he informed them that he had been asked to stand for iiearly every city in the colony. He declared that he did not sue for a renewal of their confidence, and insinuated that he could find a constituency which would defend him in his absence instead of showing signs of disapproval. From these utterances we may gather that, when Mr Vogel shall again require a seat in the House Eepresentatives, he will not trouble the electors of Auckland City East with his views on the policy to be pursued in New Zealand.