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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume I, Issue 9, 21 November 1857, Page 5

We take the following from a recent number of the "Nelson Examiner." If report speaks truthfully with regard to the authorship of the brilliant articles that appear in that journal, the writer of the following is one well qualified — indeed few more so — to express an opinion upon the merits of our District. We need not add that, coming from such a source, the allusion to ourselves is very gratifying. We have much pleasure in announcing the appearance of another New Zealand paper, the Hawke's Bay Herald and Ahuriri Advocate, which reached us last week. The enterprising, highly intelligent, and spirited settlers of that fine district have now a mouthpiece of their own ; and we have no doubt they will use it to good effect. Every one who knows the district, acknowledges it one of the finest in New Zealand, with a climate probably the very finest. The district, presenting the most agreeable variety of level, undulating, and mountainous land ; ample tracks for agricultural pursuits and for pastoral too, and in the most advantageous relative positions ; and the climate that of Nelson, with a freedom from the occasional cold winds, blowing with a hot sun, which the close proximity of high mountains occasions here. Such a district cannot but advance rapidly, and the newspaper is a symptom of its advance which we might have looked for even at an earlier day. A considerable part of the first number of the Hawke's Bay Herald is taken up with advertisements, a fact on which we congratulate the proprietor, although it is given as a reason for the withholding of an introductory article actually in type. The unassuming good sense and good taste however, with which the short notice substituted for it by the Editor, and some brief remarks introducing some paragraphs from other newspapers respecting his own, are written, give the best augury for the future conduct of the paper. And the temperate tone of an article on the native disturbances at Hawke's Bay confirms this favourable impression. On this subject we cannot write at present ; but we have no doubt the General Government will give immediate attention to the memorial of the settlers for troops, and if any way possible comply with their request. Meanwhile it is very likely that the quarrel of the Native chiefs, Moana Nui and Hapuku will, as in tahe Taranaki case, have the effect of accelerating their sale of tracts of land so needful to the developement of the Hawke Bay settlement.