The Wairarapa Daily. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1880

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 642, 13 December 1880, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1880

It seems to be generally admitted that Sir Julius Yogel is coming back to New Zealand, not so much for the benefit of the unfortunato country which he has ruined as for his own. He is supposed to have several schemes under weigh, a national debt scheme which will put a small fortune into his own pocket (which small fortune .will • not, we trust, be taken out o'f the pocket of the colony. Then there is i the agricultural company scheme, to which there is less objection, as it is a 5 trap for unwary Englishmen rather "than for resident colonists. The landI ing of Sir Julius in New Zealand will be the signal for "political activity." . There will be a sort of "Vogel political 3 art union, in which there will be a few • big prizes for big people, and a good ■ many blanks for little ones. Sir Julius is, as a public man, perhaps the most unscrupulous' specimen which ! New Zealand has produced. He is , never satisfied with the position which 1 lie at any time filk Hi* energies are ever directed to something outside of the work which, for the time being, lie is paid for When Premier j of New Zealand, he schemed for the j Agent Generalship; vlien Agent General, he devoted himself to canvassing for a seat in the British. Parliiment. He is incapable of doing any ! ordinary sustained \rork--lie is simply , a projector arid speculator. He.-is always launching some new scheitip, but when once it is afloat he trouMes • himself very little more about it. He deserts his chickens as soon as they are : , out of the shell. Though the originator of onr Public Works scheme he could nob for a single year assist to develop it, but left it to its fate, As a political incubator he is unrivalled, 1 and if, whpn hp comes amongst us, it is only remembered that he is a man who is not to be trusted, aud who must be carefully watched, he may do lis good rather than harm. His past career has been, however, a great misfortune to the colony, and wo must be careful to protect our future from his reckless adventuring.