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Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1625, 1 May 1875, Page 2

The people of the Waikato will be delighted to learn that the Waikato Times has changed hands. It was known generally for some past that this must necessarily come to pass : the utter absence of knowledge of the proper conduct of. newspaper business and the functions of journalism having brought about a position of affairs that, of necessity, induces chang s according to the inexhorable laws of commerce. The plant and good (?) will have been purchased by Messis Silver (welcome word) and Co., and the sum paid will we beliave be sufficient to place the new proprietors in entire possession. We bave been long and persistently urged by settlers in that district to hasten on our arrangements for the establishment of an independent journal in the Waikato, as the peculiar relation in which the Times stood to two or three wealthy settlers there precluded the expression of any independent leeling, or any representation of the popular cause through its columns. We had almost completed these arrangements, but in the new circumstances we shall pause until the new management has time to show if it will meet what is required qf journalism in such a district. The accession of "Silver" to journalism there was the great desideratum, and it will dissolve the connection which prevented journalism from calling its soul its own. The past history of the Waikato Times furnishes another illustration of how self-conceit and ignorance combined, essay to travel in the slippery paths of journalism, and how unvarying is the result There is something fascinating in being "a newspaper man •" and when much cheek aud little brain combine, we see the sma

bition rise ; and then comes the carking care, the wearing down of soul and body, and the inevitable collapse. Such is the history of many a newspaper enterprise where people attempt what neither tne God of nature nor the hand of education had intended them for. We have much hope of the Waikato Times in the hands of its new proprietors. It will have, at least, the benefit of newspaper experience, and of all things " Silver " —that's the word 1