The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1884.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4971, 15 December 1884, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1884.

Our Ohinemuri neighbours hare made several attempts to obtain the necessary legislature sanction to, form their district into a county, aod thus sever their connection with the local governing body to which they now belong. Beyond the gratification of the personal ambition of some of the agitators in this movement, and the furnishing of a source of excitement to the residents of this slice of the County, we can hardly account for all the trouble taken by the promoters of the movement, and we most decidedly confess that we fail to see where or how any benefits can be derived by them, even if their prayer were granted. A cool survey of the case will at once have the result of pointing out that certain residents within this riding of the Thames County are anxious to at once, plunge into the expenditure necessary to carry on the departmental work attached to possessing a County of their own. They desire their own establishment as a responsible body apparently without recognising the fact that such an arrangement cannot exist without funds being provided for the cost of maintenance. At present the expense of its government is mutually divided amongst the other portions of the County, with one set of officers, and its interests are guarded by its own elect, and we cannot see what advantage can arise by granting its prayer to be formed into a County composed only of itself; in fact, to judge by the extraordinary deliverances and actions of those most prominently associated with the movement made iv that direction, we most decidedly affirm that it would be a great mistake to place the government of the district in their hands. The reverse recently met with by the precious Separation Committee seems to have entirely turned the heads of those interested in it, and has made some of them very violent in their wrath. "Yankee journalism " was never more elevated than when the " Emulation is the Bincerest form of flattery " idea was taken hold of by the Separation journal. The polite ways of American scribes in the matter of calling their opponents " chowder headed clams," and indulging in other elegant phrases, has been even excelled io connection with this movement. And why ? Because their efforts have missed fire. We say it—with all due modesty, yet with a notion that we are correct —that the separation movement has died a natural death in Ohinemuri, and if a poll of the ratepayers were taken without any re* sort being made to " putting the case " the people would, by a large majority, discountenance the proposal. We hope that our Ohinemuri friends are open to good advice, and that they will accept ours 5 it is in this case, "let well alone." We WQuid sugeest that they should rather " bear tbe ills they have," rather than fly to others that they know not of.