SIR JULIUS VOGEL.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 332, 16 July 1875, Page 3

SIR JULIUS VOGEL.

Writing from London on May 8 to his brother in Timaru, Mr. John Studholme, Hte M.H-E: for Kaiapoi, says" Yogel has been laid up with gout ever since his arrival in England, and I doubt very much whether he will be able to return for next session. Last time I called to see him I found him confined to his bedroom,' but immersed in business. He had just arranged a contract for a submarine cable to New Zealand on very advantageous terms Sir James Fergusson says that he works too hard for his health; The raising of the four million loan, through Rothschild, is regarded as a great success. The Crown agents had failed to get the money on anything like good terms, fcir James Fergusson (late Governor of New Zealand) informs me that Rothschild told him that his interview with Yogel had given him so much confidence, that he tendered at a price much below what he had . intended. We have now got all the money we want to complete the railways authorised. Vogel says that he does not intend undertaking anything new until the present works are completed. A lot of Vogel's enemies —who style themselves friends of the Colony—had, by newspaper and magazine articles,- done all in their power to ruin its credit, and had not Yogel returned opportunely the credit of the Colony would have been seriously injured. As it is, they have done a great deal of harm." We presume that even the most inconsistent denouncer of the Premier will not dare to . question the veracity of the writer of the letter from which the above extracts were obtained; but the literary jackals of this portion of her Majesty's dominions will, no doubt, chew the cud of bitter disappointment, and make frantic efforts to put a wrong construction on the above item of news.—' Waitangi Tribune.'