CIVIL SERVICE REFORM.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VI, Issue 1859, 8 December 1884, Page 2

CIVIL SERVICE REFORM.

J Jf; WQvd. of % \Wellingtoh »peoiß}B;,i(i..tb v b9 taken for gospel™ wnioh is'entireiya mattei* of.mdividiiq.l cbpjoe—Sir Julius Vogel -has hit on a eoberoe of Civil Service Befoi-nj is calculated to be intensely popular at the seat of. Cfpyerumßut One of ths main of discontent'in the Empire City for a long titnb past has .been the unwillingness of young men in the Civil Service to raavry. Society. has spoilt the'nv; They get so > much plealanS fem'ale'sboiety without any of the qb'argea, qr responsibilities of tnatriinony, that theyWe qufte given. up any \idea of changing tbejr condition, and. it is. unanimously voted "bad form, by Jove, don't cher-know," for a "fellah" to be engaged. The dear little watm-hearted girls who used to look oh the Civil Service as.. their peculiar dofiiairi, And wh'osß' : mission in "lite wa* to possess a six-fbomed cottage with a wall-bred clerk and £3()0 a' year now pine in soli;tude and often go through 'a whole party 'and never got a ohanoe/ The thing has' becomejferioua a\\d public opinion ;is thoroughly aroused; Sir Julius Vogel has seized the opportunity with characteristic adroitness, fie has revived'the- question'of'QiviJ ijse'fvice Reform, and ••' has let it : be known .through tlje customary'inspired channels, that'by way of a'begfiinjng every unmarried clerk in'the Treasury —where the best-looking audmost eligiblobnes abound—will be dispensed with at the end of the year. The result, we learn, is that fourteen proposals, which were considered hopeless have been made already, and ever so many more are on the iapia; and the girls—eaoecially those on the gushing side of thirty—all Bay that Sir Julius Yogel is the darlingest duck of a Minister. an<J they only hope he will go on reforming the Civil Service till there isn't a bachelor left in Wellington. Talk about popularity! Sir Jnlius Vogel knows a thing or two. He wasn't born yesterday, bless you I Timarit Herald. ,1 .■.»*>