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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume 1, Issue 3, 11 September 1872, Page 2

>iUrMA.SIEIiS! SETTLERS! TOWNSPEOPLE! |)UY the BEST BREAD at the Old Bay of Plenty IJ BAKERY STOKE, where your orders will bo punctually attended to, and your Bread delivered from To Papa to Groertoa, per express cart, at town prices, Loui * JOHN MAXWELL, Beach Load, Pauranga. EXPIRATION OF LEASE! NOTICE. ACCOUNTS indebted to SAMUELS AND JaOOBSOHN mutt bs paid at once, or they will be be banded over to a Solicitor for recovery of same. TO OUR READERS. Ws enter upon this enterprise with confidence that we shall receive the support of the settlers and the business men of the district. At least nothing shall be wanting on our pari to deserve it. It is the opinion of all competent judges that no enterprise contribute so immediately or extensively to the advancement of a district as the inter-communication of thought between those who reside in it. By this means the best modes of practice in all kinds of industry obtain instant currency, and the outlying districts are kept J n constant communication with the greater centres of population. We shall with all energy devote ourselves to the advocacy of local wants, and the assertion of local claims upon the Government of the Colony, or the Province, as the case in hand may require. We shall seek to give the earliest intelligence of market prices, prices of shares, exchanges, &c. We propose to devote our attention particularly to agricultural statistics, to farming operations, and the various commercial agencies which arise out of them. In this manner we hope to produce a paper which will be in the highest degree useful to the farmer or man of business, and acceptable to all. There is one subject which cannot fail to interest us especially, as it interests ail, being intimately connected with the welfare of the Colony. We allude to what, is called the “Native Question.” Experience has proved that the po’icy of Mr. McLean hag been most effective towards the preservation of the peace of the country, and that policy will claim our assent. The remarkable success of the present Native and Defence Minister lias gained for him not merely the applause of the colonists generally, but the recognition of public opinion in Great Britain, and honour able distinction from the Crown. These are sure guarantees of his capacity to deal with the perplexing intricacies which surround the native difficulty. Mr. McLean has succeeded where all others have failed. Almost since the colony was founded disturbances have been heard of somewhere in the Waikato country, but now a traveller might proceed fro Tauranga to Taupe, and from Taupo to Aucklai without suffering the slightest molestation. No pa of New Zealand presents such remarkable attractio far tourists, as the Lake country which surroun Tauranga, or is within easy distance of it. We shi endeavour to promote all useful measures to ma these attractions more accessible. What obstacle cs can there be to making the lakes a fashions! “watering place,” as the phrase L, for not on Auckland but all New Zealand. We owe to M McLean’s native polLy the thanks which a eminently due for being able to start such probabiliti at all. Such a thought as recommending the war lakes as a pleasant abode for the invalid or the pie sure seeker would three years ago have appeared dream, a chimera. It is so no longer. The wav now open to enterprise if enterpriee'will but walk it. We are not insensible to difficulties yet in I path, but these are as nothing compared with the which Mr. McLean’s policy has removed, O language will be the language of conciliation so loi as it will prove effective. We shall do what lies us to promote that improvement in the condition the Native race which Mr. McLean has so much heart. We are not aware that wo have left untouch any subject of general interest that should claim passing mention in this first number which is as were our first meeting with our subscribers, who a to become, we hope, sure and true friends. In a wor we may say that all who have a suggestion of feasifc improvement to make, of general good to offer educational advancement to require, shall receive t! best assistauco_we can best bestow through tl columns oi the Bay ot? bt/ickty Times. Thus wo throw our little enterprise upon tl favour of the people of this rising district, confide: that they will be as eager to accept cur good will ai good work m their interest, ns that we shall have tl energy to do as well as write. Of course there w belittle use m all that we may attempt if we are u ameci oy tue people themselves. Wo live in tim when genius, however exalted, cannot stand by itsc a.one. The Spirit of the ago is co-operative. Unite men stand; isolated, they fall. This is the voice' contemporary history. We shall have the strong inducement to work if encouraged by those upc whose support we depend, while they will find the reward, we trust, in a growing improvement of tl district—a steady and sure advancement.