The Ohinemuri Gazette AND UPPER THAMES WARDEN. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1891.

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume 1, Issue 1, 19 December 1891, Page 4

The Ohinemuri Gazette AND UPPER THAMES WARDEN.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1891.

UPPER THAMES WARDEN. —0t,U:.1i.0, Act 1, Scene' 3.

Afteb mature consideration the com--pany under whose auspices this journalwill be run has much.pleasure in pro.., ■iueiog its, first issue for the criticism^! of the local and general public. Under the most favourable conditions the eornmencernont of a new publication is beset with many and various difficulties. When, canvassing for advertisements the . wished-for .advertiser 1, wants to know-what the circulation ie to be, and when canvassing for sub-. scriber the probable subscribers want to know who is'going to advertised This and many other difficulties'have been as will be seen, successfully negotiated and with all confidence The G-azette makes its bow, un{ packs its carpet bag, -and-announces that it has come to'shy. We have many friends, and we are thankful to say some enemies. A very wholesome thing is a good enemy, he keeps yon plumb and square, advertises you cheaply, and moreover for "shame's sake can't borrow your paper. If he wants to criticise he must buy a copy. We thank, 0 -Lord, for our enemies, i We had hoped to have presented our 1 readers with a larger area of reading matter, and we trust" in a few months j to be able to do so. Meantime with | the space at our command it it is our intention to fill the local journalistic ; bill to the best of,our "ability; nothing extenuating, nor setting down au'giit in malice, not forgetting the editorials We in the personal I, relating, events as they occur, commenting-on-those worthy of comment, an 9 with the good of the commonwealth in .full view. "It is not in mortals to -com-^ mand success, but we'll do -more/ Sempronius, we'll deserve it." In politics, if we must be-labelled, set us down as Liberals, -non partizans,_ and admirers of measures as against indi-' vidnals. As we hope to got our bread and butter, by mining, we shall do everything in our 1 power to make this journal a-reliable record of local and generalminingmatteis.-!,Brrorsof judgment we may make, errors of intention never. This is our programme, a; difficult one, no doubt, but newspapers, like men, if when starting out in life do no, make a rule for themselves, usually end their spineless, molluscous career in a bankrupt oblivion. Wherefore we, on our introduction to you our public, stand up in a vertebrate manner, tell you who we are, what we are,,and what we are going to try to do, "that we are going, to fill a gap in the community which will assist it, and therefore we claim your counte-

nanco and support. There shall be no grovelling, neither time serving, -no, not even to shareholders in the concern. If -we have enemies we will try to teach them-how to-fight in a mauly way, and when we have, given them : the licking they will probably deserve . and. undoubtedly .get, we -shall, aa generally happens be better friends. That is zts. Our friends we heartily ■■ thank for their present and-promised , support,; when we grip our pen we feel- ; we have them by the hand. Friends need not profess friendship to each '-. other : they -blow it —

Therefore we hope, as no unwelcome guest, At your warm fireside when the lamps are lighted, .■ To have our place reserved among the rest, Nor stand as one unsought or uninvited.