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Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 140, 12 August 1876, Page 2

The following is an extract from a leading article of the Australasian of July 22, nncnt New Zealand financial affairs Our contemporary remarks ■“ One effect of the policy which Sir Julius Vogel has been the moans of introducing into New Zealand, even his most determined opponent, or even Sir George Grey himself, would hardly dispute. It has made the politics of New Zealand interesting far beyond the limits of that colony. We question whether anything similar can be said of the politics of any other colony. Who, except in the colonies interested, knows or cares much about the programme of Mr EobertsoU, or Mr Thorn, or Mr Colton, or Sir James M'Culloch ? There was, indeed, something in the policy and the personality of Mrßbucaut, as Premier, which addressed itself to the imagination and attracted interest beyond the circle of those whom the policy directly affected. But no Australian statesman has yet. succeeded in impressing his personality so strongly and deeply on the public life of his colony as Sir Julius Vogel. At the same time, there are other causes, and preeminent! y the importance of the experiments that colony is engaged in trying, which'secure tc the financial statement made by the Treasurer of' New .Zealand special attention.”