AN ECONOMICAL CIVIL SERVICE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 52, 21 June 1876, Page 2

AN ECONOMICAL CIVIL SERVICE.

A correspondent from the scene of opera.! tions writes to a French journal that the! Herzegovinians have more cash than tli e ! Turks, and which they might easily havej without being at all rich ; that the Turkish soldiers are sixteen months in arrear as to pay, and that the officers melt down the gold lace of their uniforms to sell the residuarj gold ; one captain thus obtained a "nugget - " that sold for thirty-five francs and three sots —a fortune for a fellow with empty pockets since a twelvemonth. Civil Service reformen would do well to study the system of at]. ministration in Montenegro. The higher paid official has but a salary of 5,000 fraae a year, and he is President of the Senafe, which is about as numerous a body a, the army of the Grand Duchesse de G*. rolstein. The Ministers of Foreign Affaji and Finance enjoy each a salary of 2,ot> francs, and each discharges, imassisted, tfo entire business of his department; but thej the former functionary receives no more tin three letters per year from the total foreig Powers, but which does not the less prevec Montenegro from maintaining amicable relj; tions with all. The " Pope "is also the% \ Minister, and no one objects to his plurals of functions ; besides, when Pio Nono had ail army of the flesh, was not the ecclesiastit | M. de Merode, also his War Minister ? Popal before now have led their fighting men j I battles, and to the parts where it was hotter, « also. 9.