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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 116, 8 May 1876, Page 4

' A paragraph, has been going the rpunds of the Press, copied froin the Ijo'ndon Weekly despatch, about Sir Jjulius Vogel's Victorian career. Mr Henry John Cope, of Arrbwtovpn, writes to the Otago Daily Times na follows on the subject :— " The writer must have been dreaming when he said, he had flayed a game of poker ' with Sir J. Vogel at Pleasant Creek and cleaned bim ; out.,' Sir J. Vogel; was never- at Pleasant Creek in bis life, nor djd he ever write articles for the,' local rifg' there, as up to the time Sir Julius Vogel left Victoria for New Zealand no newspaper was ev.er published at Pleasapt Creek at aij. There wasiap advertising sheet published there wbich Wjßs given away with the Mount Ararat Advertiser as . a supplement, but nothing more: It was during Sir Jbliu.B Vogel's residence in Dunedin that Pleasant Creek -(Stawell) made-, such rapid strides, ahead as to support; local newspapers. Sir j. Vogel commenced' his journalistic career as editor of tbe Maryborough and .Punolty. Advertiser, which paper he ably conducted tor a series of years until the death of the chief proprietor — Lieutenant Nuttal — when he purchased the pbjnt of tbe Inglewood Advertiser, and which paper he owned in conjunction wjth a Mr -Petti fer until be. left .for. Djunedin. Sir Julius Vogel always maintained his position as a gentleman, aqd was never iri tbe habit of hobnobbing or, playing poker, with Tom Nokes or Jack Straw. He travelled but very little, and except during his candidature for the representation of Ayoca, was scarcely 20 miles out of Mjaryborough. Sir Julius Vogel's opinions were even by his enemies always "considered as very, valuable, more especially upon matters of finance and it was generally considered that he saw farther than most people. When the quartz reefs at Tarnagulla were drowned' out with water, and operations were stopped for want of capital to prosecute them further, it was ; - Sir Julius Vogel tbat first conceived ih6 idea of working them as joint stock companies; and be succeeded in floating the celebrated Poverty Reef Company, and was the first to introduce outside capital into mining speculations under tha co-operative system. Had it not been for a combination of factipnists and two men running together for the two seats, in all probability Sir. Julius Vogel would have been elected to represent Victoria in the Victorian 'Parliament, as excepting the. rabid

pnes, he possessed almost the entire " confidence of the electb.a of the Avoca district. This faQt, I imagine,' is pretty well borne out by subsequent occurrences, as v. herij a. the annual election \n 1864, I nominated at Clyda Sir. tulius Vogel for tbe Goldfields, and he): as _ seconded by Mr Edmontl Elliott, na old Victorian miner, there was no opposition, every banl in the la_j?e crowd, assembled being .held up for him." ! The responsibility of publishing the . . following " extract from a letter" rests with the Hobari Town Mercury. The writer- says: — "I hecrd the .'other, day |— you may have heard it before-^— a very good, anecdote bearing upon the spirit $f rationalistic inquiry which is: abroad upon questions of theology, and indeed other : ' ologies.' It -is as , follows: j—A colored. preacher was holding forth at a camp meeting in America, his theme being the creation of man ., and man's Sail. lie said that when.God made Adam he Qrst man, he made bim of clay, and.; tuck him up against a three rail fence, fo dry. • Stop Sar,' said an excited And. rationalistic hearer, 'if Adaui was\ (he first man, pray who put up dat ar fence.' Put dat man out ob diß chapel,' jv as the reply, such questions ap dem will spije all de theology iii de wOrldL' l»-^ — . __________■________—_■—_ ______■—___.