THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1880.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3684, 15 October 1880, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1880.

The event which has so often been conspired for, hinted at, »nd yet has always been averted, has at last taken place. We refer to the resignation of Sir Julias Vogel of his position as the representative of this colony in London. We regret this exceedingly, though Sir Julius nerer did much for the Worth when in poweras the Agent General is Bn able man, and brains are scarce. Vogel's Public Works Policy has been the means of making the colony what it now is, and likewise the means of saddling us with the incubus of debt that we now feel so heavy; but we hare no hesitation in saying that had the Vogelian policy been carried out on the lines proposed by its author, the colony would now be in a prosperous condition. The fault of its only partial success is due to his successors, who instead of constructing public works the returns from which would hare tided the colony over her financial difficulties, squandered a large portion of the loans in political railways, and other odorous swindles. Towns on paper were connected with railways to secure the support of the wealthy land jobbers of the South, while places of importance like the Thames, which Vogel intei ded should be in* eluded in his scheme of public works, were left out in the cold. To this system of squandering the borrowed money, we re-assert the present depression of the country is due. The direct cause of the resignation of the Agent General has not yet transpired, but we assume the Ministry wish to donate the office to some political toady of the Edward Wakefield or Reader Wood genus, whose mouths have been watering for the flesh pots of the Agent Generalship for a long time past. Should Sir Julius again turn bis attention to New Zealand politics, we feel confident that his ability would soon cause him to rise to the top of the tree again, when he would be able to cry quits with the lickspittles of his prosperity aud his enemies in adversity. « :