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New Zealand Herald, Volume I, Issue 233, 11 August 1864, Page 4

Gambling in Government Offices. —A short tune sinco Earl do Grey and Kipon, the secretary oi staw for war, was anonymously informed that certain o the clerks were iu the habit of throwing dice an playing for considerable sums of money. '1° diately directed an inquiry, which resulted in trie finding that the principal in charge ot one ot tie largest sub-divisions, and the second in eoiinna£ ' were deeply implicated in the oftence charged, M 1 that seveml of the juniors were punishable as p>Jy" eipators. Earl de Grey and Kipon suuuiiaril) ' L *~ urissed the principal and the second in comniMi » ordered two clerks of the second class and one °'_ t third to bb placed at the bottom of the respect lists, and declined to listen to any appeals from .V. quarter. The whole of the gentlemen engaged the office have been sent for, and a l° n n lU''ll- - by Earl de Grey has been read to thcnfi wliich he expressed his astonishment and ann y' 1 / at the gross misbehaviour of the princip- 1 ' The juniors were punished because they wei 7 a% ' rl ,_ of what was going on, and did not report thyl"*=^ larity. One of the offenders was in roceiiy than six hundred a year, having served othir was receiving more than tour huiny ' Jjjj. with a service of 2S years, and both huF misled with pay up to the day of the decisy 1 will lose every farthing they have paid/ 1 1 c • animation fund. —Obarreer. / ■ .v.j It is a sure sign, when a man m liiudj tliut ho has h;ul a drop too much/