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Patea Mail, Volume I, Issue 91, 23 February 1876, Page 2

In the town of: Nelson, not a single drop of rain fell during the month of January recently expired. The steamer Ino was put up to auction by Messrs Sharp and Pickering, but a sale was not* effected, the reserve price being £IOOO, and £950 the highest offered. Referring to the recent uthrmcos of Sir Julius Vogel when ho was interviewed at Melbourne, the N.Z ■ Herald remarks : —“Sir Julius Vogel says nothing about what he thinks of the position cf matters iu Now Zealand; what his ideas are respecting the recent elections ; what he thinks of the conduct of his colleagues in respect of the Abolition Bill, and so on. He will find New Zealand greatly changed since he left it. When lie closed the Assembly, there was scarcely the semblance of opposition to any of Ins projects or proposals, and he had little trouble in riding rough-shod over the few who were bold enough to show any disposition to call his acts in question. Now, he will find a formidable and determined Opposition not only to the changes which he thought it easy to make in the Constitution, but to many of Ids other acts, and to bis system of administration. Sir Julius is easy to be powerful with two millions in one’s hand, but it remains to he seen whether he is strong enough to rule in such storm as is approaching. ”