SIR J. VOGEL.

Evening Star, Issue 7448, 17 February 1888, Page 2

SIR J. VOGEL.

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CHRLSTCJWRCH, Fjsjjrwr? 17... The ' Lyttelton Times,' referring to Sir j. Vogel's departure, says : —" No doubt a cry will be raised that Sir Julius Vogel is preferring his own interests to those of his constituents, cf his party, and of the Colony, fro ' doubt hp is doing so; but a man must live, and a rn*n who has i others depending upon him must think j of other lives besides his own. Possibly: public opinion here takes the same view of' its servants' requirements as the famous French' of the ancient rii/ime took of the protest of his peasant—' JL Juut vivrc, monseigneur.' New Zealand public opinion may not see the necessity ; but the unfortu-) nate politician will differ with this view of | the case, and not being so entirely help- ; less and fettered as was the ante-Revolution, French peasant will take his own way. Sir Julius Vogel will resign the leadership of : his party, and will be absent from his place in the House next session, because his; private bixness imperatively demands that; he should be elsewhere, Just in the same way Sir Robert Stout declined fco accept any; of the many offers made him last October to • contest sife constituencies and re-enter public life. Sir Robert's agfajrs had suffered severely through hp attention to jfchosp of his fellowcolonists, and he considered £hat he had a right to deyote himself, for a space at least, to retrieving hi* pi'cfcesional position. No reasonable man thought otherwise then ; no reasonable man would exclaim against Sir Julius now."