The New Zealand Advertiser, AND BAY OF ISLANDS GAZETTE. KORORARIKA: JUNE 15, 1840.

New Zealand Advertiser and Bay of Islands Gazette, Volume I, Issue I, 15 June 1840, Page 3

The New Zealand Advertiser, AND BAY OF ISLANDS GAZETTE. KORORARIKA: JUNE 15, 1840.

hr will, perhaps, be ex peeled .of us, iu the feTils'et of oCir labour* as Journalists in this small but rising community, that weshonld make some explicit avowal of the principles we intend to fcdlow.. Our space will permit us but few remarks, and perhaps in the present stage of the arid of our own connexion .will* it, it would be premature tosay much. Promises,ibe public is well aware,' are easily broken, and with sofiie appenraiiireol excuse‘ 1 too, when made iii ignorance, as they in list be to a certain extent, in a new society. We will then just say, that our every endeavour wiH, in every way which presents itself lo ns, lie direeled to the public good. YVe wish omrs to be strict ly a Paper of Commercial utility. In conformity with (his rule, we shall exert ourselves to promote the interests of the community by. every possible means. At. the sairie time .we shall, be found the upholders of every Institution by which, the moral and physical well-being of mankind may be promoted. ; -Oar views are comprehensive: VVe wish-todo good as far as our power 'extends, to the whole, r JL his. principle will, we trust, always keep iis from falling under any undue bias to any particular section bf’ rhe coni mu ndy If is oiir decided intention to avoid aft unuecessary tiffcuce to i-miividpuals of

evorj’ cbiss, and. therefore, we shrtll be careful t hat our columns never become the medium of personal attack and vrtupeiutibri. 'Our .object' wifi invariably be to unite not divided a principle, on the dub maintenance 'of which we conceive the prosperity of the Colony of New Xeahind most essentially to depend' In pursuance of vieigs, we invite : coihmunicatibrjK wijjftten in a temperate siyde, on alt subjects co/uiected with the public weal. We shall of course exercise onr own discretion in the use of the materials furnished tons, but we shall endeavour In fbe exercise of that discretion, to a«£ on the'strictest impartiality. One word iiiore to our Oiir success must depend on piillIre'support both as it regards theMstTEßiel of whicb cnir Journal shall consist, and onr pecuniary ability to conduct'.it. creditably-, ""'e hope, therefore, that all who>vTsh oiir course to'be a prosperous one, will exert themselves to make it so, and we can then securely promise them that time shal I prove onr present commencement to have been an afuspieioos one both to ourselves and the Public,