New Zealand Mail. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1876. SIR JULIUS VOGEL.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 230, 5 February 1876, Page 12

New Zealand Mail. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1876. SIR JULIUS VOGEL.

Sir Julius Vogel may be expected in Wellington by the Arawata during the course of next week. He was too weak to render it at all safe or prudent to risk a visit to Sydney during the intense heat of summer in that city, and was arranging the matters referred to him by means of the telegraph. A Gttardian "special" interviewed Sir Julius in Melbourne, and we have the substance of the interview in our telegraphic column. There is nothing new or startling in the conversation, although the special correspondent evidently anticipated being able to create a sensation. Sir Julius very prudently confined himself to generalities, remarking that he was a firm believer in the necessity for keeping up a steady stream of immigration to develop the resources of New Zealand. Of the soundness of this opinion there can be no doubt whatever, and we think that the money spent in promoting immigration has been, on the whole, more productive than any equal sum spent on any other branch of the colonising policy of 1870. Sir Julius likewise expressed his belief that the Pacific mail service would yet work itself right. We have no doubt of this. But in the meantime it is exceedingly irritating to be paying largely for. a service which is not performed. For example, the City of San Fransisco arrived at Auckland on Saturday last without the mail, although she waited at Kandavau for the down through boat ninety hours. New Zealanders are therefore in ignorance of the whereabouts of the January mail, which they should have had delivered to them by this time. No doubt these mishaps are very annoying to Sir Julius Vogel, as he declared to his interviewer, but they are doubly annoying to the public of the colony who have had to put up with them since the Pacific Mail Company began the contract. We can only hope that his proverbial good fortune may attend his present negotiations with the Sydney Government, and that the Californian mail service may hereafter run smoothly. It was only natural that Sir Julius should allude to his arrangement with the Bank of England to inscribe New Zealand stock. It was an arrangement of very foremost importance to New Zealand, and it is to be hoped, as he is reported to have said, that the Australian colonies may follow the example, because whatever tends to enhance the credit or standing of one of the Australasian group of colonies must be beneficial to all. The visit of Sir Julius Yogel to England has been followed by many advantages gained through his instrmentality for New Zealand, not the least of which was this one with the Bank of England. We are sure that men of every shade of opinion in the colony will be glad to Avelcome Sir Julius Yogel back to his old position at the helm of affairs. The time that must elapse before he can reach Wellington will be sufficient to enable Ministers to assemble at the Seat of Government to receive him, and arrange those matters which of necessity will require adjustment on his arrival.