The Oamaru Mail TUESDAY, JULY 13, 1880.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 13 July 1880, Page 2

The Oamaru Mail TUESDAY, JULY 13, 1880.

The debate on the Civil Service .Commission's] report was opened in the -House of --Representatives lasfc ; evening by -Mr, Saunders, and promises "to last for some dayß. The laie Chairman,of. the "defunct Compission, in ostensibly moving for.the production of cer-j tain papers, too., enteredmpon a de/ence)'of the Cbmmisiion and. a further denunciation of Mr. Conyers.. How this struggle will end, it is impossible to tell, but as the dis- ! eu?noo is likely toTead. to .the expgsureo'f; many unwholesome things, lovers'of scandal; are likely to have an abundance of their! favorite class of small talk. Tie position taken op in regard to this precioas ' report 6t the Commission is somewhat peculiair. While Mr. C'onver3, judging from his letter, ap-j pears to think that he is placed upon >id trial, the late Chairman of the defunct mission assumes a precisely similar, position,' and last night entered upon a defence of himself an 4 his brother Commissioners. Hi 3 speech,.therefore, was ahndst entirely comj posed of a reply to Mr. Conyers 1 letter, "and it is only just to say that Mr, Saunders made the fullest use of his Opportunity,' as mqy.bA seen by a perusal, of his. speech., it certainly the most extraordinary debate 'that •we ever' renjembeir to have taken place 14 the House, and the spectacle presented is not likely to add much to the dignity of thp House or the credit ofi its members." Jt is, however, the ,Tery natural outcome .pf: the very sensational report prepared by. the Civil Ser>"ice Commission. Had .the. Commissioners adopted a more becoming tone, and avoided penny-a-lining, all this trouble an|l waste of public. moneyT-j6r, &fc any, rate, & very large portion of it—might haye bpep avoided. They cliose to adopt thp sensational style of writing, and the Commissioners cannot now complain if their report is dealt with more severely than' it would have been under ordinary circumstances. !