THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CIOCK P.M. Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1877.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2636, 20 June 1877, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CIOCK P.M. Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1877.

The Press Agency gives what may be looked upon as a semi-official contradiction to the rumour that the Government contemplated handing over the management of the goldfield to the County authorities. We do not attach much weight to the contradiction, for it is not so long since the Press Agency was made the medium for denying a statement that there were dissensions in the Cabinet, a course which had no effect in convincing the public that the statement was untrue, but, on the contrary, confirmed them in the conviction that the Cabinet was anything but the happy family the Press Agency represented. Our contemporary, however, has taken up the parable, and " believes " that the Government have no intention of doing such and such things. We are not surprised at this, because the County Chairman has said there is no truth in the statement; and it has long been apparent that the editor of the Advertiser will dance to any tune the County Chairman may pipe—in fact, he could not be more tractable if he were a County Councillor. As to the truih of these statements, we gave them as having been received on credible authority ; and, notwithstanding the contradictions, we still bel'eve that there is truth in them. Will the County Chairman, ov the Advei*-t-ser for him, deny that the County have asked for con-rol of the Mining Inspector? Is his office a part of the goldfields management ? If an affirmative be given to these two questions, will anyone with tlie same breath repeat " that there is no truth in the statements'?" There is little use in pursuing the matter further. We Lpve sufficient eyicHenc") to prove that theve is some Jung in the rumour, and we have been assrre "i by one who ought to know thai the " contemplate 1 change? embraced very n uch wider ramifications than were even hinxd at" in our remarks ; and if the changes sl'ould not be carried out it will be, not from any disinclination on the part of the Government to oblige the County, but from their inability to do so under conditions sufficiently favorable to make it worth the while of the County to accept the responsibility involved.