Sir Julius Yogcls Candidature.

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 51, 24 May 1884, Page 3

Sir Julius Yogcls Candidature.

Sir Julius Vooel has re-affirmed the statement that he will not remain in the colony liioie than a few months. Jn a telegram to our morning contemporary he says: — "I have no intention of staying beyond a few months and have no intention of forming a distinct paity. T came here without any thought of enteiing into politics, but, ob&erving the existing difficulties, have thought my long experience in New Zealand might be of service in suggesting remedies and in con.-olidnting parties." Really lhi» is the \eiy perfection ot — veil, say scit complacency ; a stronger vord ha? suggested itself, but admiration for the supiemo audacity of the would- be member disaims resentment. The telegram means literally this: "I came to the colony for other purpose? ; one of them being, in point of fact, a little claim of L'(5,000 odd against you ; but on anival my heait was touched at the si» lit of your helplessness and inability to cany on the government of the countiy. Jt then occurred to me that, -while not neglecting my own little a flairs, 1 might, dining my three or four months' stay, put you all tight again for a few years. 1 Mill iix up your parties for you, and settle your difficulties, and having accomplished this, I shall be enabled to tGll the good people in England, on my return, how opportune my anival was ; how everything was in a devil of a mes?, md how the whole colony welcomed me as its saviour. Such a triumph will be exceedingly useful in reviving my rapidly waning fortunes and influence at Home, and may perchance furnish me with a powerful backing in obtaining the settlement of my little bill. I have no intention of forming a distinct party : that would be a very fooli&h thing in every way. Parties are so nicely balanced now that by coquetting first with one side and then with another, by falling in with Grey's land tax and agency of native lands, and leaning to Atkinson's finance and the Conservatives, I can do a very great deal better than by trying to create a new party. Steering a happy middle course, I shall soon be able to discover which party is most likely to see things as I see them, and then the consolidation process v ill begin in earnest ; you have had a touch of my talent — just confide yourselves in my hands, dear children, and all will be well." The address is an insult to the intelligence of the countiy. What are the difficulties w Inch any advice of Sir J ulius Vogel's can remove. We have had no difficulties since he left the country, except the remains of the extravagance in Government created under his Administration, and the&e he is not the man to remedy. As to parties, we require no assistance in consolidating them ; the electors, and not a transitory visitor to the colony, are the proper authority to do that. The patronising tone of the telegram, its ineffable conceit, and the ridiculous aspect in which it places New Zealand and its people before the outside world, should be sufficient to ensure Sir Julius Vogel's rejection for any constituency in New Zealand, where the electors are not actuated by the very meanest motives in the choice of their representative. If the voters of the East Coast elect him on such conditions, they and their schemes deserve to be ostracised by every other member of the New Zealand Parliament, and tho district handed over to the financial rings of London, whose favour they court. Sir Julius Vogel, upon his own shov. ing, represents that class alone. He is i"t ... colonist, has no intention of becoming one. He deserted the ship of State when in the midst of the breakers, and we have no need of his help now that she has been safely navigated into smooth water,