MR. VOGEL ON THE STAFFORD MINISTRY.

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 246, 17 October 1872, Page 9

MR. YOGEL ON THE STAFFORD MINISTRY.

The following is from Mr. Vogel's speech, when he moved the no-confi-dence motion, as reported by the " Wellington Independent " :—

After alluding to the " little games" of Messrs. Bunny and Fitzherbert, Mr. Yogel made reference to the personnel of the Ministry. Commencing with the Premier, he would not say that he was a mere shadow of himself, but he had long forgotten a good deal of what he had learnt. Itwasnot impossible that there was a good deal of work in him yet, but he wanted another course of training. They were in a position not very dissimilar from the position of a few years ago, when the friends of the hon. gentlemen cried "Tote for the resolution, and do something for Stafford." That was the position now ; members had to vote for the 1 esolution and do something for Stafford. Next he came to the Minister of Public Works, and was it not absurd to ask the House to consider the member for the Taieri an improvement on the hon. member for Olive, a gentleman who had made the most able and the most exhaustive speech that had ever been made in that House. If the hon. gen tlemaa had been made Commissioner of Customs, he would never have considered the mistake so great, because ' there was at the head of that department a gentleman of great ability and a very efficient staff, but to place him in the capacity where some administrative capacity was required was too much for the good sense of the House. The thing was altogether absurd. The Postmaster-General was a most amiable gentleman, but with just as much mind as they might expect to find in a young j lady fresh from a boarding school. Independence of thought or action was a thing they would never look for or expect to find in the hon. gentleman, lie then came to a gentleman, who was not present in the House, the hon. gentleman who represented the Government in the Upper House, and in respect to him it was well known notwithstanding the rumors that had been circulated that the alternative was presented to him by the late Government either that he should resign or that every other member of the Cabinet should. He could only look upon his accession to the Ministry as an insult to the common sense of the House. To express the characteristics of the Colonial Treasurer was best accomplisftci in the use of six letters — ! Tyrant. The hon. gentleman's peculiarities had already been discovered by his constituents, and notwithstanding that the hon. gentleman had told them he had been returned by the votes of a great number of people be never would be returned again, even as Superintendent of Auckland. Between the hon «entleman and the Colonial Secretary Me could well imagine the scenes which must take place at the Cabinet meetings, and if a Select Committee were appointed to examine into the matter it would he suspectel Y& discovered that they had a hard time of it. The people of Auckland in electing their Superintendent reminded him of the short sighted gentleman wto once saw an extremly handsome young lady at a opera house. She bad beautiful curls, pearly teeth, and a figure of most exquisite symmetry. The old gentleman scraped an acquaintance with the lady, and to make a long story short, he married her. On arriving at the well ordered house which had been prepared for the reception of the lady, the old gentleman found the beautiful curls hanging up, the pearly teeth were lying about, the exquisite symmetry was also banging against the wall, and after comparing notes, the gentleman discovered that he had married his grandmother. That was just the case with the people of Auckland. From a short sighted view they had married their grandmother, and they were not likely to do it again. The Minister for Land must be considered by all Middle Island members a standing menance, for with the hon gentleman's ideas on the land question he could not be considered otherwise. In addition to this, his sense of justice was not such as the country approved of. It was not to be expected that he would administer the public works policy in any other way than the one which would afford the best pickings for his own province. He would not refer further to the hon gentleman than barely to allude to the suggestion made by the hon member that the late Ministry should have been tried by a jury of matrons, and in making that allusion he would merely say that if the hon gentleman were tried by a jury of matrons they would quite approve of him as one of themselves, if they were only sufficently old.

Women work at bricklaying in Austria, and we are told that it, is common to see them carrying hods of bricks and mortar up long ladders. And this is what it will end in here, if woman persist in their demand for women's rights.

An illiterate gourmand says that the only line of beauty he knows of is a "line" of pork.

A man advertises for " a competent person to attend to the sale of a new raedcine," and adds that "it will prove profitable to the unlertaker."

"How many unfortunates have fallen in war ?" said, a spinster to a veteran gen6i*al 7 who was «dso a veteran bachelor. "Not half so many, madam, as have fallen in love !" was the testy reply.