AN EXPENSIVE EMISSARY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 237, 3 November 1876, Page 2

AN EXPENSIVE EMISSARY.

(Evening Post, October 26.)

# Some figures of both interest and instruction to the tax-payers of this colony are to be found in the report of the Public Accounts Committee, with refereuce to the cost to the colony of Sir Julius Vogel's two missions to England:—

The commifctee find that the total expenses of the first mission amounted to £3163 2s 6d, a3 per statement attached, exclusive of Sir Juiius Vogel's salary, which amounted to £638 17 9d.

The Committee further find that the total expenses of the second mission amounted to £5640 9s 7d, exclusive of Sir Julius Vogel'* claim for a- further sum of £2750, and also exclusire of Sir Julius Vogcl's salary which amounted to £2172 16s sd, and of the salary of his secretary, amounting to £534 93 6d. That the following statement shows the actual amounts received and claimed by Sir Julius Yogel for his salary, .allowances, and personal expenses during his second mission:— c , X i, d. salary ... ... 2172 16 5 Travelling expenses ... 2171 8 0 Special allowance ... 1500 0 0 Passages of himself and servant ... ... 283 10 0 "Additional vote askod for 2750 o o £8877 H 5 We say that it is positively disgraceful that Sir Julius Yogel should have squandered so large a sum of money during a period of only sixteen months. If spending at such a rate as that can be called " living in a reasonable manner," then we wonder what extravagance moans. The whole thing is disgraceful alike to Sir Julius Yogel and to the Ministry who abetted his extravagance. No public man connected with any Britiih Colony ever before unfairly spent so large an amount of money upon himself during the same period of time. The act is a fraud upon the public.

* Disallowed by the House of Representatives.