MR. VOGEL'S SMARTNESS

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 159, 23 February 1871, Page 5

MR. VOGEL'S SMARTNESS

The writer of "Talk on Change" in the " Australasian " says: — "The New ZenL'tnders owe ten millions or so. They rather like the liability. So much do they appreciate it that they have determined to borrow a trifle of six millions more — that is, if they can. They have sent a smart man to try, or, rather,, he has sent himself, for he started the idea, made it popular, and then got himself specially appointed to do the work. In common with many others in Victoria I have the honour of being aquaintel with Ihis smart man. They know him at Dunolly and Maryborough, and pans adjacent. He was a sharp and bold mining speculator, and was by no means a contemptible player of unlimited 100. By sheer industry, tacn, and I think talent, Julius Yogel ha 1 ? rteen to the rank of the leading politician of New Zealand. He has one capital qualification, a convenient deafness. He never hears what he dosan't i-;ant to hear, and ytst it is wonderful how much he doe 3 hear" His bete noir is Dr. Featherstone, and I am told that he is the only leading man in New Zealand over whom Mr. Vojel has not cast his glamour. The speed with which Mr. V. made tracks upon his mission via California, upon the return of Dr. F. from England, was suggestive of a sense of approaching counter-influence. The subsequent appointment of Dr. F. as a colonial agent, and his instant despatch to London after Mr. V., resembles nothing so much as the policy of the Polynesian Company, which, never despatched an emissary to Fiji without following up with another to watch him. J. V. may be trusted alone, he can take care of himself, and if he does succeed in borrowing six millions of English money, he will have done a smart thing for New Zealand, and he might make a little himself, in the regular way, of course.