THE HON. JULIUS VOGEL, FROM AN AUSTRALIAN POINT OF VIEW.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 38, 14 February 1871, Page 2

THE HON. JULIUS VOGEL, FROM AN AUSTRALIAN POINT OF VIEW.

We take the following" paragraph from the Australasian of 4th inst., and in doing so, must express our conviction that all right thinking New Zealand colonists will be most indignant to find their Ministerial factotum spoken of in so contemptuous a manner by the leading journal of the Australian colonies, nor can we altogether acquit that newspaper of unfairness in writing in such terms of our colonial deity, because he was long; a resident in Victoria, and the settlers there have had quite as favorable opportunities of discovering all his excellent qualities, as have we in New Zealand, and consequently, they ought, knowing him as they do, to speak in a more deferential manner of him whom the politicians of this colony have elevated to the honorable post of Colonial Treasurer. 1 One thing more we strongly object to. The flippant, manner in which the actual bead of our Government is alluded to as '*• J.V " and the total absence of anything approaching to veueration in a writer who

cnn coolly characterise a New Zealand Minister as a " smart man " are both equally reprehensible, rndKve really must protest.against such liberties being taken with one who is looked up to by colonists here as their saviour aud their guide. With this slight introduction we will proceed to quote the paragraph which has excited our choler. Here it is, and we feel quite sure that our readers will be equally auuoyed with ourselves to fiud Mr. Vogel, his scheme, and hia mission spoken of io so irreverent a manner : — " The New Zealanders owe ten millions oiso. They rather like theliability. So much do they appreciate it; that they have determined to borrow a trifle of six millions more — that is, if they cau. They have sent a smart man to try, or rather, he has sent himself, for he started the idea, made it popular, and then had himself appointed specially to do the work. In connexion with a good many others iu Victoria, I have the honor of being acquainted with this smart man.. They know him ut Duuolly and Maryborough, and parts adjacent. He was a*, sharp and bold mining speculator, and wa? a by no means contemptible player of unlimited 100. By sheer industry, tact, and I think talent, Julius Vogel has risen to the rank of the leading politician of New Zealand. He has owe capital qualification, a convenient deafness. He never hears what he doesn't want to hear, and yet it is wonderful how much he does hear. His bete noir is Dr. Featherston, and I am told that he is the only leading man in New Zealand over whom Mr. Vogel has not cast his glamour. The speed with which Mr. V, made tracks upon his mission via California, upon the return of Dr. F. from Eugland, was suggestive of a sense of approaching counteriuflueuce. The subsequent appoiutment of Dr. F. as colonial agent, and his instant despatch to London after Mr. V., resembles nothing so much as the policy of the Polyuesia Company, which never despatched an emissary to Fiji without following him up with another to waich him. J. V. may be trusted alone, he can take care of himself, and if be does succeed iu borrowing six millions of English money, he will have done a smart thing for New Zealand, and he might make a little for himself, in the regular way, of course."