MISCELLANEOUS.
» Under the heading; of ' A. Peep into an Augean Stable/ the Australasian com* menls forcibly on the salient featnres of the Civil Service Commissioners' report, and gives us not a very flattering portrait nf ourselves as others see as. Oar confemperary makes application of the re» pirt to the circumstances of Victoria, and says :— * If this be the case in Npw Zealand, what must it hare been in Victoria with the hero of the far«brush at t' 6 head of our railways, with Mr Tlmm; s Htginbotham cashiered from mo'ives of 4 revenge,' and with hordes of rarenocs Liberals, to be placated by appoint* ments or enriched by jobs ? A simil r inquiry must be undertaken ere long in this colony, where we shall hare to choose between an increase of our already heavy burdens of tnxitinn and a just and neces« sary revision and retrenchment of our i nl»Hc expenditure. When we have left off declaiming about the * power of the purse' perhaps we shall find time to apply ourselves, like practical people to the far more important business of pro* tecting it against pillage and profusion,'
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Inangahua Times, Volume II, 27 August 1880, Page 2
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189MISCELLANEOUS. Inangahua Times, Volume II, 27 August 1880, Page 2
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