THE CIVIL SERVICE.

Evening Star, Issue 4288, 23 November 1876, Page 1

THE CIVIL SERVICE.

aI xt So ™ e rather remarkable ardoles upon I *^r a S? ve Wlately- iiL|he Wellington Aigfis.* Their autkoUjiip has been ascribed; to Mr Hanghton. but 4 Jr e e * 49r ot dfeniea flatly (that they are'written by Mm. Wo n ive, however, &ir 6wn opinion of «hj« p value ofifeat denial, 1 i t a •*;' &' Coibnk . aecretarrs department,!!* a maHnerwhich the writer was thoroughly aoqtmnrked i Heßctsout by saying that under thevofeel i lS!™i - th * tolomd &creiarjr, like aU other I #tfbiSri aj& tbit , th e staff ;m< this department hbwcbnsists of [ an .“ ex cornet of light cavahy, who has ds- ! J el °Ped mto an servant, and I Of Mr . retirement s Dr Knight, and the mention of). the* LThder-Secretar* *g ’hi* ;—««Ho most S %k° k exoeptioStoWe ; placed him; &• fc.-ftow he most ; thank hu, stars that he was found to be too i clever for an aide-de-camp, and qnittedthat ! B® Qte ol of semoe for an office- desk. Oth&r in tho i “*hree servants ” are now unfortunately -out of- - the running,-^© , those twoknulitaiy Hidalgo?, MajorsQofcSi 4 ? n and sake we : ;^^e-olftOTpka^ffiecL M ; -then the following spicy passages occur sWe. hope bc considered as L trespassing upon sacred ground if we now venture to xhtrade npßu-sot& of the well ■ Preserved .-grotinda, of oertainpast : ■ nothing, have - sung sinecures, and, ‘Vi^ominS^^dV^tn. .. kughat aßoutmdera.rAs intdlii gent specimens of the canine race find thaW it paya better to iioktheir and ait up. and. jjbe*;-rather than do the huainess,_or battle with JUICODb fort ible rats, so these gentlemen have found a stwer. wmr; to official: ohrj for the .krHlibdfg-on its behalf. Like the ivy, they have crawled to. the summitOOrf r We tOWet TihhmL hardly brnataentrt y tfnd:^^S%%^^ Mr JonasWOodward ,-m An "piwtn^ of th% Hefholds many offices, all iughly pud; but never seems, overburdened -with- work,? ahdffifis timp at. his ditoDßal, the Bench,., and ion; Seihg.d present* conspicnonsly at all- public -.meetings or gatherings ! Wbich j have . V or teetotal brari>/te f M* wkloiV of some idol 1 of the- ffia 'pnndpal Raj ‘local thatT of -Public Trustee, which, like “Inspector of Stores.” would appear to have been hot for any .partly utility, ior snfficidnt machinery ; existed already con* | vement s tall in which to hpuse "and ieedihC' pampered,, 1 pet of the. FoxWpgel, Cabinet, whose advent to' ! favbr he Sa-jMid-tQ have very = considerably" assisted; having aeen in .PV*. -.Jww.ithe, j^J^wing.” There is a great Satisfaction, however, to the pubjipinthefactthat we fit BBH)f;the?K^isp!u3. - is essentially clerical “The ! r * was in old times- the familiar prafiy ' °| chief^^ojler^iif^fflfi of the Episcopal. Ohuteh; 1 whose, duties. i England, pkn bkrdly be "consistent with I those of-a'“civil servant.” OnrAttention is to porhims ' - W bemet witbieven in oar . public aSL vice—Major Seaphy. T. C., Soldier. Lsnd bneveyor. Marine Surveyor,fflraughtsman. Mining Engineer, Geologist, Mi. . neralpgist, &c., & c . Officially at present * * Comrinssidhep of Native ’ ResHi i vet, >, a inysajtbmg 5 “hbbpdy. i, can understand,” except that riießß.Jß.a. f ft t ' salary httabhed, recupient.ia! l one of those happy beings whom thaX3olonv it appears is bound to provide for. Mr Fox is responabje for the mahufahtUfo of this , bulet,_it being absolutely i lease to make one, the fulfilment of the .duties-of which require "no intellectual development, and'as little work as f&srible. A jshort Parliamentary ttireer'received this re.sward; a marked contrast to the„way*the? present Government have . treatM 1 iheic jfaithful followers/who Have done,,if pojiv •sible, more dirty work. 1 “Tjbok* at the ■Estimates just past, and the most; jennons anomalies, will strike you j aflff jit does not certauily appear upon the jf ace of things that:the' hardest wbrked men be hest pay, ,but rethci' on the oontrary, that on to the > itenai skirts—the; odd ffien who/db little ife-. ithe office, but make them|KilYsb useful in ; ; Ministerial,^progressed always ready to cany ! the sacred carpet-bag and oilskins, have the largest salaries, in common with that special ' breed peculiar to more xetitekable tor physical than intellectuid development, and', gteat 'in the' myst&iee ofv archery f and ‘tip-cat,* y > Mnated * lawn tennis.* The new 'Dia* . jhnalific&tion Act has fipbbd- lraifii&ni a flnm 'one form of persecution—the personal botheration of impeojmmps members of the Ausembly* tipcin their qwn &bh a system as wp have them altogethef from seekei s who throng - and infest the -streets lt wonldiurther effectually putki ttpp to a vast amount of irritating 6bm£pbnd«ho9 Mth iriflntintial or- mieT : invariably have friends ot. relations ttoy ue anxious to palm off on the service, and whose hnalifications, nine times onjt of ten, ere oon^ - fined to powers of absorption, skittles,' and Yankee grab.** '