West Coast Times. TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1867.

West Coast Times, Issue 588, 13 August 1867, Page 2

West Coast Times. TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1867.

The Evening Edition of the West Coast Times, having succeeded in attaining the object for which it was issued, will cease to be published from this date. The proprietors had long felt that the public were entitled to receive their telegraphic summaries of intelligence on the evening of the day on which they were transmitted along the wires. So long as telegrams delivered at our office in the afternoon remained unpublished uutil the following morning, the news for which we were paying was for many hours withheld from our readers. It was considered, therefore, that it would be an accommodation to our town subscribers, to issue an edition of the West Coast Times immediately after our afternoon messages were to hand. We quote the following passage from the first number of theEvening Edition of the West Coast Times, which fully explains the purpose of the publication :—": — " The Proprietors of this Journal, anxious to meet the strongly expressed desire of their subsciibe-s that Telegraphic News should be supplied in their columns, have for some time past expended a considerable sum of money on this item ; they have, however, felt very strongly that the public have not had full benefit derived from such information, from the fact that the news received each day was not published till the following morning. To remedy this evil, and to render Telegraphic News with celerity, they have determined in future to issue an Evening Edition of the West Coast Times." The necessity for the issue of a second edition has now ceased. Qur evening contemporary has at length been induced to follow in our steps, and for two clays last past, the public have been supplied in its columns with telegraphic communications. It is thus so far fulfilling its legitimate mission as an evening jouraal ; and so long as it contimies to do so, we shall be content to suspend the publication of own late edition.

We are unable to publish a full report this morning of the proceedings of the meetiug of the Separation League, held last evening, the meeting not having broken up until a late hour. It is of very great importance, and a matter of justice to all parties concerned in tho Separation movement — either as promoting it, or as impeding it — that the explanations made last night should have full publicity given to them. Withholding the report, we are fur obvious reasons under the necessity of withholding comment also. But with a view to set one point at rest, we desire to direct the attention of Mr Prosser to our report on the 30th ult., of the proceedings of the meeting at which ths Westland members were present, and our brief summing-up of the action that was then taken, as conclusive of the fact affirmed last evening, that the decision had been arrived at to make Separation and the creation of a new Province of W-tstland the great object the League was to aim at. We said — "The meeting of the Separation League held last evening was so far a success that it resulted in a practical issue. * * * After'along discussion, the sense of the meeting was very unmistakely pronounced to be in favor of Separation, as the only remedy. This, therefore, is a definite practical point gained. A fixed object has now to be fought for. To-night, the Standing Committee of the League are to be appointed by ballot. And the duty assigned to them is to cause a petition to be prepared for presentation to the General Assembly, reciting the case of Westland as" against the Provincial Government and .Council, and praying for a Bill to be passed for the erection of Westbnd into a separate province. We believe that those members of Council who at first felt some difficulty in accepting Separation as the most ; practical remedy, are now prepared to co-operate heartily with the other members of the League in giving effect to the decision that has been arrived at. The time has passed, therefore, for continuing the discussion as to the nature of the relief we ought to seek, and it would be a profitless task to re-open the question.