In consequence of "representations by. many of the officials that they are worse elf here since their promotion from other colonies, and the fact that the cost of living has gone up materially, the Secretary State has sanctioned small increases éare-fully calculated in the pay of the olticials. Even this slight increment leaves them worse off than their predecessors in office, when the colony was young and work was less. The present Governor gets much less than Sir John Pope Hennessy received twenty years ago, and the Director of Public Works receives considerably less than Mr. Price did. It isa fact that Mr. Ormsby has never received a cent nor even commendation for all the work he has done in the New Territory, and for which ho has had no assistance given him.
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