SIR JULIUS VOGEL.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 308, 18 September 1875, Page 2

SIR JULIUS VOGEL.

\ / a 7 ; i r—r- u . *1 The Illustrated London Eews, of July 3, contains ’portraits of Sib Julius Vogel, K.C.M.G., Wircmu Katcqe, Makena, and Karaitiana Tdkamoana. Sir Julius is still jn London, and perhaps hia. return to the Colony depends as much upon the way in , which Ju* resignation” is received as anything else. It may be he is pretty "confident if. will not be “ accepted,” and it may have been sent in with the object of getting an extension of leave, the more especially as there was a feeling in the Colony “ tlffit return may be unavoidably' delayed ’ —an expression used ini connection with the report “of his serfons ■ illness 'on route to England." Well, no one ought to grudge a man his well-earned repose ; still, this condition admitted, in the face of the rumours going about, it would eertaijily be to the interest, not to say credit, of New Zealand that it should be known whether he is officially connected with that Colony or no. Tho report as to his having resigned his the Premiership may of may be true. If true, there can no harm in making the fact known, aMH if there is no foundation for the assertion H there is the more reason that it should be contradicted. There should be nothing like mystery in matters of grave import, and even though Sir Julius may argue that his public acts in connection with the Colony are in themselves sufficient to show that he is still in office, yet, as most people don’t read between the lines, the general public may be excused if they do not arrive at the same conclusion. In view, then, of the interest at stake, in in these days of stock-exchange surprise, would be as well to let .the public know how matters stand between Sir Julius and the Colonial .Government. It certainly it would be matter for regret if S r Julius should elect to leave the colony to her own resources in this crisis of her history, because, if any evil should happen, by reason of this unexpected desertion, Lord Carnarvon might see cause to regret that he was prevailed upon to confer a distinguished honour upon a man who, wheu that honour had been conferred and made safe, found it convenient to leave the work, which had

been thus so handsomely recognised, unfinished. For myself, I shall he glad to hear that these rumours have no founda-. tion, and that the remarks to which an ill-timed reticence has given rise are misapplied- But it must not be forgotten that the public have their own way of •interpreting events, and the fact that the order of Sir Julius to the Agent-General to abandon the free emigration scheme has been countermanded by instructions from the Colony may be construed, in the absence of any information to the contrary, to mean that there is a sjjJit between the two. .....