The Western Star. (PUBLISHED WEEKLY.) SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1876..

Western Star, Issue 156, 2 September 1876, Page 4

The Western Star. (PUBLISHED WEEKLY.) SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1876..

Sir Julius Vogel has retired upon tHo Agent-Generalship a paltry position enough after the one he has occupied ; and there is little doubt that nothing but the ill-health that he pleads would have induced him to change the brilliant politician into an official hack. While we regret the cause for his sake, his loss will not be so. severely felt since he has first overcome all the obstacles to turning Abolition from theory into fact. He has so long been looked up to as the ruling genius of the age that, surprised by the occurrence, several members have allowed their feeling of . dismay at his loss to overcome their discretion. Mr Rolleston said “ there were many men who had sacrificed their health and their all in the service of their country, but it should not be pleaded as a justification that the Premier was resigning office on the ground of ill-health.’" How to Mr Holieston we would gently insinuate our preference for a Premier who combines a mens sana cum corpare sano. Mr Andrew “considered it strange that a leader with a growing majority should resign and take a petty office in London.” We were grateful to Sir Julius Vogel, and Mr Andrew has now earned our thanks for paying Sir Julius so high and ingenious a compliment. The retiring Premier will carry with him the earnest wishes of the Western and Southern districts for th® restoration of his health, with which we will include own for the welfare and prosperity of his lady and family. Sir Julius can still render valuable services to New Zealand, and it is no slight advantage to us for our Home agent to be represented by one so intimately acquainted with our whole internal economy, and we trust his residence in London will prove an additional link in maintaining the amicable relations between the mother country and the colony that at present exist.