THE Manawatu Times. SATURDAY, JULY 3, 1880. ROYAL COMMISSIONS.

Manawatu Times, Volume IV, Issue 53, 3 July 1880, Page 2

THE Manawatu Times.

SATURDAY, JULY 3, 1880. ROYAL COMMISSIONS.

« Wprdt are things, and a drop of tek falling Ukt dew upon a thought, preduoe* thtt which ra*ke« thousaadi, perhaps millions think."

Considerable* Hißgiist' was' evinced throug^Qut eplqTiy . the ;apparently ungrateful treatment to which the meinbevs of the Civil Service Commission were treated by the Q-overiiinentjin return for whatever/ one imagined to be the benefits-which they had bestowed. upon the colony by their revelations. This surprise and disgust was based upon- the, presumption that all that was oontained m the. report-of- the Commissioners was true, a.nd p,eo.ple wondered why, after the damning accusations •bcpught #gain ; st. him, Mr. .Coders should hav-e been allowed to retain his, ras. p/msibje, office for even a single day. It now. ap,pear» that the Government ha,d very good cause for the. course pursue^ and t%e reason tbjsy did' not take action upon" the manifesto of the Boyal Comuiinsron was; th ( at m many pantieulansi they found it totally unreliable, . and had vej'y gop4 cxiuse for p.resuoaiog that it was wholly worthless.' Jt may be . reaollecte4 tfiat -when Vafewung to i thje railway waggons,, i tha* "re:p[ott 'contained the fallo.wiag "sleeping condemnation :-r,' Waggon 3 buUt. by contract m Donedin were aeliTer«d m ChristoliTircltat-the end of last year m a state thu3 described by a wibness : ". Some, of th^se were disgrac.ef ul ; bad bad tiniber ; the timber was unseasoned, stringy bark .-was put m instead or iron bark ; the joints were iiot properly -made. '. -;- . Some of them hod : the bo'tfcoin.framos b.eld.'up only by the nails m the .goring bdiirdS.' r : :- of them we have had almost to, rebuild six weeks. ' The, ,hqn.. meoibecey for. .Cayejrsham, hbwever, was deterj^ned/Jo'- probe tl\e matter, to, the, bo|t^ui^and tesc itifl accurracjr of the accusation*, andcpn«e^[ti(ently Ke'jis^ed^.he MFiiisJbejc of I^iblic 1 Wbrlc^ the name of tne.contraecoi' for such waggons ; secondly, uader the tuperr ■vij»ion of which department vvas the contract carried out, and who was, atid is noT?, the respb.nsible . head of >t'Ka;t department;.; w^i^thirdLy, who 'passed the wbrk,'aad under' who»e certificate did the. contractor obtain ; payment for such waggpns? "VSfould I it'; 'be.:' belieyed that, m) reply, th;©^ Minister of Public Works stated that the vEiigiheer-ih- Chiefs of Sputli Island, Mr. . BlaiB;, gave the : Commissioners' statements a point blank denial ; that there, vyas not a particle, of truth-in— the-assertions ; that the waggons had been, running fpr months, and had been found to stand the, w,ear and tear bayond expectation. When, it is considered that the sum expended upon the. several Commissions has amo unted ~to £10,0pg »nd,thjat the of the eji^e^CQ tof Civil Service ~C|oinmiVß-' on alone would .amount to added to the now provtn and admitted worthiessriess of their labors, it can not be denied that the .^IO,OOO had better buen throvynfinto thejeft. The Civil Service. Co mrnission has ionenqi good whatever, but a great deal of harm m mating grave charge* which hud no foundation m : ............. .......