THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1878.

Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3042, 14 November 1878, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1878.

The County Council elections are now over, and so far as the Thames is concerned—in which only we* are directly interested —we believe that generally the result wiH be regarded as satisfactory. Some little feeling was exhibited, we are told, by Paeroa residents yesterday, when the Aroha steamer arrived with some forty or fifty voters from the Thames, and at the result which placed Mr John Brown ahead of local men, but we believe this feeling is only temporaly, end will soon be allayed, as Mr Brown has large interests in the Ohinemuri district, and will look after those of the people as jealously as any resident possibly could do. Kauaeranga election seems to have caused some disappointment too, but the winning candidates had worked hard, and the result was what their supporters averred they expected. Of the new Council, four of the new members sat in the first Council, and two of them were returned unopposed—a proof that they had given satisfaction in the past. The five new members have nearly all of them, at one tim» or other, been engaged in public affairs—two of them in the Provincial Council and local governing bodies, and the others in connection with highway and educational matters. They will thus ba able to bring to bear upon the performance of their duties a knowledge of public- business, and an intelligent acquaintance with affairi in this district which should greatly assist them in their deliberations. The questions likely to engage their attention will be of a momentous character, as the future of the district will greatly depend upon what is done during the next few months or a year. If the railway be commenced, and the land soon thrown open for settlement, the prosperity of the County will be insured. The Council will not have to fall back upon special votes in order to s carry on, but the revenue from land will be considerable, and the gold duty will be released as soon as the Pumping Association securities have been disposed of. Fortunately the new Council are relieved of any responsibility in this matter, their predecessors having taken measures to put this business in trim. With a good Council, which we have, and an energetic chairman, which we are likely to have, there need be little fear of County administration falling, below what it has been hitherto.