The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. TUESDAY, JUNE 12, 1883.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4504, 12 June 1883, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. TUESDAY, JUNE 12, 1883.

An interesting letter signed " Old Colonist " appears in another column, and the good sense : contained in it can be utilised by the members of local governing bodies to advantage. The, effusion is a most practical one, and taken in the abstract will'bear careful perusal. The writer, though, is given to taking the actions of the present administration into consideration from a merely local point of view, and would hare the press a renal institution, subservient only to the advantages to be obtained by its advocacy, and entirely irrespective of principle. Our zeal for the 1 welfare of the district is no by-word ; we have endeavored to push its alaims in every possible way. We are always willing to concede in moderation, if any benefit is to be derived by the people who bok upon the Press as a means of obtaining their wants, or making their grievances known; but we cannot connive at the/wholesale robbery of the public estate— we cannot shut our evfp and ccc the property of the colonists filched from them in a most barefaced manner—we oanno/c stand by quietly, and observe what shqmLd be ours, pass into the hands of a few political appropriators, who make.use of.': their positions to enrich themselves ajod their confederates—rand we most positively state that we will not assist in any way towards prolonging the occupation, of the Treasury benches by a set of man wtib retain them for personal purposes. If any action for the public benefit wera> credited td the present administration, we would be, willing *<» >•?*?/our meed of : praise; -w» have not be«u rabid io «ror opposition to them. TOiiore large parades of their wonderful administration have been made, it has been our duty to disillusionize the people whom they nought to blind; where they have flaunted before thi< public gaze some paltry success or endeavored to en>rge upon the glory attendant upon their introduction, or carrying out «f some insignificant measure; we have- felt it our duly to nußoW'-'ioaw'bf-tIM frjnsel from their show, and point out to on r readers what the substance of their at wements

really was. The rules of conscientious journalism demand this, and although a reader may imagine that by exposing gross wrongs, there may by|temporarily suffering; in the end* when those wrongs have been righted—perhaps through their exposure—the reaction is of a most satis^ factory character. It would be most pernicious if the doctrine of " the end justifies the means " were followed in such matters, even supposing that a satisfactory result for a. time ensued.