The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 1886. THE VOGEL REGIME.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1712, 19 May 1886, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 1886. THE YOGEL REGIME.

A contributor to the Hawera Star writes as fallows, and his rmnarkß will ha generally jcoMmde.red as specially apropos nt the prevent juncture. He nays :—The present state if atftin m New ZoMatid recalls to my mind a letter that appeared ift one of our leading papern years ago when Yogel first started •'plunging." The writer related an anecdote of a river-steamer race m America, The skipper of the leading Bteamer fonnd the rival boat steadily gaining on him, and ordered the engineer to feed the engines with fat bacon and to weigh the safety valves. Time after time (be ot'der oarno to the engine-room to increase the pressure, and at last the dames were roaring from the chimnies, and the boat squirming along hteffllly like blades. Still the foe gained ;gfound, and the mate going with a freih order to the. engineer found that that worthy had disappeared. Presently loaning over the tuff rail, the mato discovered the engineer seated on the rudder, and. asked him what m wonder he did there. "Wall, sir," said the man, "I just rockofl this here seat is the only safe berth on this here nteamer now." The writer likened Sir Julius .to the engineer, who after putting on a dangerous head of steam would climb on to the rudder (i.e., leave the colony) before ithe. explosion came; and the prediction came true. There aren't many engine drivers though who, like Vogei, will climb back on to the wreck, atid try to rake enough fire up m the battered old engines to raise another "bust." . ..