MR COLEMAN PHILLIPS AND SIR JULIUS VOGEL.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 144, 6 October 1876, Page 3

MR COLEMAN PHILLIPS AND SIR JULIUS VOGEL.

The claim made by Mr. Coteman P;iillip»,. of Attokl»tut r foe compensation jtt-tiimuectiott with Sim Polynesian scheme, it tv somewhat curious one. fcir Julius Vujfyt at the time gained great credit and rtmown ii» being fclvtr supposed originator of tiiis faiuotu project. It was ptopoce*! to ft)i'in a Polynesian, trailing company *itJv» capital of £i,t#,W, on whtcu the Colony was tt> gturantie anirtb'jrest *>t* tivy pa* cunt.. It was a very gnuid undertaking liiluudf arid everybody who took shares in i> wis to be made fabt-ttausly rich. New Poland was to securo the whole trade 1 «>t" Polynesia,. ami the operations of the crxuWny were ttltimatjly to assume enorrnorrs finuawiona,. and eiv»l the ccmonurciat artecess of a great trading corporation of a pwt age. The scheme was elaborately #>t forth in volttminotta printed j apers, Wd for a time- nothing else was talked nbottt.. It got noticed by the Ln lon presH> and waa the muansof making Jubtis hguL' uame known in h'tgii places. IJyMUUbyo SomeshrjwtJ joctrnal.sfc discovered tliivt thj whole thing waa utterly illusory wd impracticable. Then the babble bilV9fc r and the scheme was heard of no Moci'. It now appears that Sir Julius while pretending to be the originator of the scheme was not so at aIL had steljtt it front A. r r. Co It ma * P'uillipa r and adopted it as his own. Mr. Phillips -objected to this trading on false pi'dttmuta, and petitioned iV.rUaruunt for touipunsation. it seems that Sir Julia.* not »nlyap pri prated Mr. Coleman Phillips* ipiuul conception, but got hint to come to ''«ilington, and in some measure work N't the scheme on paper. The Public "atitiona Committee, to which body the Watfcur was referred, evidently thought Coleman JPhiilipa an ill-used man.

have therefore awarded! him £l5O in coining to Wellington, - besides as general solatium and urapuaaation, The met rauita of this

s Sonth Sea Babble may therefore be stated thus :—Dr.—Coat to the Colony for clerical work and printing, say £500; conip« nsation to Phillips for pirating his conception, £300; estimated loss to the Colony in diactming the &frf>rtive scheme in the Hottae, and thns w;s?»:tsith's tiinc of members, say £230; total coat of South Sea finfibte, £1,050. Cit-—Great Kndos to Vygel : Notices of the scheme in the London Press; despatches to the Secretary of Statu for the Colonies about the scheme; Vogel regarded as the most original projector of the aye, and Knighted accordingly. This little story plainly shows how easy it is for a cunning and unscrupulous man to obtain a temporary retto.ru by the adoption of the most questionable devils. Sir Julius stole from Mr. Stafford the idea and plan of the immigration and pnWic work policy, and this pirating of Air. Coleman Phillips* Polynesian scheme £# quite in keeping with the former act.— /W.