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SIR JULIUS VOGEL (1835-1899)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 171 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:JULIUS See also:VOGEL (1835-1899)  , See also:British colonial statesman, son of See also:Albert See also:Leopold See also:Vogel, was See also:born in See also:London on the 24th of See also:February 1835, was educated at University ,See also:College school, London, and emigrated to See also:Victoria during the exciting years which followed the See also:discovery of goldfields there . He became editor of a newspaper at See also:Maryborough, stood for the Legislative See also:Assembly and was defeated, and in 1861 See also:left Victoria, carried in the See also:mining See also:rush to Otago, New See also:Zealand, where much See also:gold had just been found . Settling in See also:Dunedin, he bought a See also:half-See also:share in the Otago Daily Times, and was soon its editor and a member of the Otago Provincial See also:Council. See also:lie made his See also:paper the most influential in the See also:colony, and was returned to the See also:House of Representatives . In 1866 he was See also:head of the Otago Provincial Executive; by 1869 he had made his See also:mark in the New Zealand See also:parliament, and was treasurer in the See also:ministry of See also:Sir See also:William See also:Fox . Without delay he brought forward a See also:scheme for the construction of See also:trunk See also:railways and other public See also:works, the See also:purchase of See also:land from the See also:Maori tribes, and the introduction of immigrants, all to be done with See also:money borrowed in London . At that See also:time New Zealand hardly contained a See also:quarter of a million of See also:white settlers, was exhausted by the ten years' struggle with the Maori, not then ended, and was depressed by the See also:low See also:price of her See also:staple product, See also:wool, and the See also:abatement of a gold-See also:fever . Yet Vogel's sanguine, energetic appeals and remarkable See also:gift of persuasion induced the House of Assembly to adopt a modified version of his scheme . For the next six years he was the most powerful See also:man in the colony . Millions were borrowed, railways were pushed on, immigrants—See also:state and voluntary—streamed in . Lasting See also:peace was made with the Maori, a See also:telegraph See also:line laid to See also:Australia, a See also:steam See also:mail service secured across the Pacific to See also:San Francisco; a See also:government See also:life See also:insurance See also:office, and a public See also:trust office, were established, both of which proved useful and were well-managed . During a visit to London on the colony's See also:financial business, Vogel succeeded in arranging for the inscription of colonial loans at the See also:Bank of See also:England, an arrangement afterwards confirmed by the imperial parliament . In 1875 he was knighted .

In 1874 Vogel, until that time a supporter of the Provincial See also:

system, decided to abolish it . In this, with the aid of Sir E . W . See also:Stafford and Sir H . A . See also:Atkinson, he succeeded . In the struggle, however, he See also:broke with many of his old See also:allies, and in 1876 suddenly quitted New Zealand to take the See also:post of See also:agent-See also:general in London . This he held until 188o, and while holding it negotiated a See also:loan for five millions . Having become connected with certain public companies, and the New Zealand government objecting thereto, he had to resign his position . An See also:attempt, too, which he made in 188o to enter the House of See also:Commons as Conservative member for See also:Penryn was unsuccessful . In 1884 he returned to New Zealand, was at once elected to parliament, and formed a See also:coalition ministry with the See also:Radical See also:leader, Sir R . Stout .

They held office for three years, but though Vogel showed some of his old financial skill, they were not years of prosperity for the colony, or See also:

triumph for the government . A deficit, a rejected scheme of See also:taxation and a crushing defeat at the polls ended Vogel's career as a See also:minister . After a few months of failure as leader of an outnumbered Opposition he gave up the contest, left New Zealand for the last time, and for the last eleven years of his life lived quietly near London . Throughout his life he had from time to time to struggle with deafness, lameness and acute bodily See also:pain, while an impulsive, speculative nature led him once and again into financial difficulties . The persistency with which he faced trouble and embarrassment, the hopefulness he showed under stress of See also:ill See also:fortune, the sympathy and pleasantness of manner which won him See also:friends at all times, were elements in his curious and interesting See also:character no less remarkable than the fertility and imaginative See also:power of his busy See also:brain . Vogel was among the pioneers of Imperial Federation; he would have extended See also:Great See also:Britain's See also:influence in the Pacific Ocean had he been allowed . He was the first minister to secure the second See also:reading of a See also:Women's See also:Franchise See also:Bill in New Zealand . As See also:long ago as 1874 he endeavoured to See also:save the New Zealand forests from the reckless destruction by See also:axe and are which has since gone on . In 1889 a novel from his See also:pen, See also:Anno Domini 2000, was published, and reached a second edition . He died at See also:East Molesey on the 13th of See also:March 1899 . His wife, who was the daughter of William See also:Clayton, government architect, New Zealand, two sons and a daughter survived him . Another son had been killed in the See also:Matabele See also:War in See also:South See also:Africa .

Vogej was a See also:

Jew of the Ashkenazi rite . (W . P .

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