PROVINCIAL AND GENERAL

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 233, 18 July 1872, Page 6

PROVINCIAL AND GENERAL

■'» People generally suppose (says the " Evening Post ") that the civil service is a bed of roses, and that the clerks have little or nothing to do. The fallacy of this idea is shown by a case of extreme self-sacrifice at the shrine of duty, which has just been brought under our notice. One zealous officer, finding the hours of day altogether too short for the performance of his arduous duties as accountant in a large department, living at a distance from the Government offices, and being therefore unwilling to waste time in travelling to and fro between the offices and his house, had just an official desk erected in his bedroom, and, there when his family is slumbering around, he pores over accounts by the dim light of his midnight oil. We have not beard whether at the end of each month he claims overtime for the hours thus stolen from sweet sleep, but have an idea that such is the case, As. an instance of the rarity of Christian charity we may mention that we recently heard a bilious-looking fellow officer declare that if so and so knew how to do his work at all, and would only attend to his duties during the ordinary hours instead of rushing about the buildings with files of papers under his arm, he might, like an ordinary tnortal, rest in his bed at night without the public service suffering in the slightest degree, while the public purse would be saved from large demands on it for payment for overtime. An old army officer, writing from his post in Washington territory, mentions this little incident : — "In the State of Nevada strangers and sometimes old settlers are taken in and cheated in the most surprising manner by purchasing claims in ledges of rock commonly known as Quartz Ledges. The sellers do not always keep truth on their side ; hence there is frequent grumbling on the part of purchaser?. A man who had been bitten in this way became very wroth, and recommended to the State' authorities of Nevada that they should adopt the Irish flag as the coat of arm's for the State. ' Why should we do so ?' inquired one of the officials. ' Because,' replied 'the indignant purchaser of worthless rock, * a sham rock and a lyre (liar) are the true symbols for your coat of arms."

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