MR VOGEL'S SPEECH.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 42, 18 February 1874, Page 2

MR VOGEL'S SPEECH.

It will be interesting to our readers to. peruse the comments upon the Pre-mier'sf.after-dinper speechiwihich appear in the columns of newspapers in other psfts loii the ccolony *, .'atad : we therefore propose to republish them as they come to haß&^withcfut regard to the opinions they express.-*; The only one that has yet reached us is the following from the Wellingtori ' Evening Post.' We have omitted a portion of it, as it was evidently based upon a sentence in the telegraphic report which was wrongly punctuated thus, entirely altering its moaning:— * "If the telegraphic report of Mi Vogel's speech at Nelson is not a very bad one, the speech itself was a miserably bald one. There is literally nothing in it ; those points of interest which aB we pointed out the public were anxious for information about, were most carefully avoided, with the exception of a few unmeaning words oh the.7 question of Provincial borrowing. Mr Yogel, in fact, seems to have gone to Nelson to congratulate the peoplo of that province on their somewhat tardy conversion to Vogelism, and to tell them that they must give good practical assurance of the sincerity of their new opinions before they are to expect any substantial benefits to accrue from their change of faith. All danger of relapsing into heresy must be over before they are to be permitted to share in tho blessings which appertain unto the faithful. This is evidently the meaning of the warning statement, that " speedy results are not to be anticipated from the change of policy in Nelson," coupled with the hope, that ." hereafter Nelson might, be as. prosperous as Canterbury.'" 7We have said that Mr Vogel's utterances on the subject of Provincial borrowing are unmeaning. They are so in the sense that theydo not convey any information. * * '*. » He "hoped the General Assembly would not fail to see that Nelson had fair claims to share in the policy of borrowing for public works, but he could not say with what effect if similar claims came at once from.several provinces; but he would assert that no province had greater claims tban Nelson." Such was not the way in which a Prime Minister should have spoken on the subject. If he was in earnest in saying.this, it would have been becoming the position which he occupied to have gone further, and stated that the Government would endeavor to lead the Assembly to recognise the claims of Nelson, and would support them to the utmost. A bold declaration of tbis kind, however, would be contrary to Mr Vogel's whole system of government. Similar and; equally well-grounded, claims might be simultaneously urged by other provinces, and any pledge in the case of Nelson would. interfere with •' Mr Vogel's practice of playing one province off against apother. The miserable shuffling of this system, is here apparent. If Nelson has wellgrounded claims to a public works loan, is it not the manifest duty of the Government of the colony to support those claims? That other parts of the colony . have equally good claims is surely no sufficient reason why the whole of the claims should be ignored. The. clear duty of the Government is to balance all these claims, and to endeavor, as far the means allow, to do even-handed justice to all. It is positively amusing to find Mr Yogel saying that he approves of the policy of the Provincial Government of Nelson, as one based on opening the country by roads and bridges, when we remember his action in respect of the province of Wellington only three days before he spoke. We wonder what the policy of the Provincial Government is if it be not that of opening the country by roads and bridges. With what other object did the Provincial Executive, in the face of enormous difficulties, carry through: the Roads, Bridges, and other Public Works Appropriation Act, which Mr Yogel immediately on his return from the South felt it his duty to recommend should, be disallowed. The policy he professes .to admire in Nelson he is doing his best to thwart in Wellington. Inconsistencies of this sort must, however, be expected from a Minister whose whole policy is based on expediency instead of principle."

A lady correspondent of the Riverton paper makes a unique complaint against Good Templarism. She, like all thrifty housewives at present, is busily engaged in making jam fcr.. family consumption, but finds a great difficulty in procuring jars wherein to bestow her conserves. Previous to the institution of the Order of Good Templars, she says, there waa no such difficulty, as from the quantity of fermented and spirituous liquors consumed by the folks about, there was any quantity of empty bottles obtainable, wherefrom she argues the establishment of Good Templarism is not an unmixed blessing.

. 'Ibo JDondon correspondent of the Auckland" Star ' writei:— Mr Brogderi M.P. for^Wedndisbury, has been making a speech at a trades union demonstration*, at which he said that trades unions were : now a necessity and an advantage' to both masters? and men, and that those who persisted in shutting tbeir eyes to such facts were foolishly blind. -He spoke in a rather gloomy way as to the immediate future of the trade all over the world. In America be said that half the works were closed, and that those who remained oj-en only were worked half lime. Jn Germany it was the same, and in England things were looking very bluck. At that moraeut he had an offer of 10,000 tons of Engliah railway iron lying at New York at £2* per ton lees than English prices. This, however j was, only a'tempprary depression, and matters would right them- ; selves in duo-time. If, however, things are dull in one trade tbey seem brisk enough in other's, and the Government are finding a difficulty in getting their African ..transports „' loaded, as the stevedores won't take less than 8s 6d per day, and 1.4s per night. Of all the many novel and interesting exhibitions which have been devised and introduced in London to the notice of the public, nono have proved more , attractive than the barmaid shows, the fourth of which was held lust September, at North Woolwich Gardens. More than thirty ladies contested for the prizes, which were awarded to those who obtained the most votes and took the most money. They were of various ages and appearances— • tall, short, stout, thin, fair, and dark damsels being included in ihe paity. A few were described as exceptionally good-looking, and all of them were becoming in their attire, decorous in tbeir behaviour, and attentive to tbeir duties. As the ladies contesting were accustomed to publicity, and made it their study to be active and agreeable at all times, they did not feel any awkwardness in attending on this occasion. . Ilo'loway's Pills and Ointment.— Weary of Life —Derangement of the liver is one of the most formidable causes of dangerous diseases and the mo3t prolific of those melancholy forhodings which are worte than death itself. A few dopes of these noted pills act magically in dispelling low spirits and repelling ti e covert attacks made on the nerves by excessive heat, impure atmosphere, over-indulgence, or exhausting excitement. The most shattered constitution may derive benefit from Hollowny's pills, which will regulate disordered action, brace the nerves, increase the energy of the intellectual faculties, and revive the failing memory. By attentively studying the interactions nnd obediently putting them in practice, the most despondent will soon feel conflent of a perfect recovery.