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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4458, 3 July 1875, Page 2

In continuation of the remarks made by us yesterday, concerning the origin of the canards from Victoria about Sir Julius Vogel, we may point to a matter which will perhaps fix with some degree of accuracy one of the New Zealand sources of these unfounded and unjust rumors. In the Melbourne Daily Telegraph of June 11, appears, under the caption .“New Zealand—from our own correspondent” —a letter headed “Resignation of Mr. Vogel,’’ and dated Greymouth, June 11th. The writer of that letter indulges in the customary slanders and misstatements concerning the absent Premier, and, in language as despicable as it is insulting, rakes up private family affairs of Sir Julius Vogel, sneers at his origin, his creed, and his character. No one respects more than we do the anonymity which girdles our profession, but in the present instance we feel sorely tempted to break through etiquette, and denounce the supposed writer of the letter in question. We are morally certain that letter came from one who now snaps .at a hand he has fawned upon a thousand times. In it, as we said, are insinuations and plain statements that Sir Julius Vogel will not return to New Zealand, coupled with matters which no public journalist with respect for decency or himself should have mentioned. This was in the Melbourne Daily Telegraph of the 11th of June. Two days afterwards the Age, not to be outdone in mendacious enterprise, published the pretty little paragraph which has been going the rounds of this colony within the last two days. The Age, in like manner as the Telegraph, doubtless wrote on a basis supplied to it from New Zealand, but which it did not care or think it creditable to acknowledge.