SIR JULIUS VOGEL.

Press, Volume XXXI, Issue 4264, 29 March 1879, Page 2

SIR JULIUS VOGEL.

The : following letter, in reply to a tclegn on the opening of the Southern railway, i received by the Mayor of Invercargill 1 mail:— " 7,, Westminster Chamber, , « London, S.W., "January 30th, M? 9 "Dear Sir,—Your telegram, of, »hi<* enclose copy, occasioned mo the n«gratification. , It is a great de»l to an a-» man to feel that he is not forgotten, and 1 especially pleasing to a public man te £ that his policy and his work are -appreo-M Whilst accepting your 'co»gratul»»<% I think I may fittingly do ss ons wSu-h largely concerned in the development <= system of Colonial railways, it'would MP mc to forget how much you owe to ■ Menzicj for his efforts to give you a satol tory system of railways from the.Protm means at hi. command. " My then colleagues, Mr Fox, Sir Dot McLean, Sir Dillon Bell, and.Mr J"™ generously permitted mc to claim the en of the Immigration and Public Works poi By that policy we proposed that the •.«* should do the work we thought the prora were not strong enough to pe««f '*"? But ifc would be wrong to suppose,tM« ■« of the'provinoea had not worked ™- tbe *l direction. In Canterbury Mr conceived, and partly carried out, a gp system of public works which hit-fW* Mr Rolleßton, continued to oarry on. • Otago, Mr Macandrew au4 thft «« ffl &ff the Executive from time to time, -tarn them Mr Reid, Mr Moss, and W*"', W effected and wholly aspired to similar aeffi? ments, and I have already referre- »|' Menzies* efforts. . . ,r« « There are, no doubt,-.e_»r whose names I ought to mention, W£* writing with not much time at'my co ™~?i Indee&Lought to apologise toyou ** may soem an intrusion of , f 9 rei m But thisisthe fir-fc time "Bf B **SUi troversy arose that I have bad an opp« of explaining how deeply it wouta P»> to think ti_fc my efforts on bcjj «_J colony should place in effort, on behalfof tho of many distinguished men, to jc colony owes an unexting-isbable dca With personal thanks ft* P** **■** " Believe mc, v , ;..*w3_>(*j«_ - , «d.-._.:..-..*_ , ,~.- ~~~ "Vj-xnrs VCGSi* " His Worship the Mayor of Inverc-rgU!."