FELLOW SETTLERS.

Wellington Independent, Volume I, Issue 1, 2 April 1845, Page 2

FELLOW SETTLERS.

Circumstances have rendered it imperatively necessary that a new Journal should be started in Port Nicholson. The paper will ba called the Wellington Independent, and will be issued semi-weekly, viz., every Wednesday aad Saturday, from the Printing office, Mannersstreet. The first number will be published, on Wednesday, the 2nd of April, 1845. The price will be £2 per annum payable quarterly in advance; cr sixpence each for single numbers. This paper will be sent to subscribers early each morning of publication. The subjoined will be the advertising terms: — Six lines and under, 2s. 6d.for the first, and 9d.for each subsequent, insertion. Over six lines, 3d. per line for the first, and Id. per line for each subsequent insertion. This upon comparison and calculation will be found to be an enormous reduction upon the present rates. This paper will be issued by the Printers, who have been so long employed at the Gazette Printing Establishment; and they hope, it will be awarded to tliem that they, one and all, have acted a sit becomes good colonists, since they have been in New Zealand—a period of several years. Five printers, four of whom have wives and families, look to the public of this settlement to sustain their humble but meritorious efforts. They will be satisfied with very moderate support. They feel it necessary to state briefly the circumstances which have compelled them •thus ts appear before the public. In the last number of the New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Straits Guardian, Mr. Roe, the Printer, inserted as an advertisement, a deposition made by D. Wakefield, Esq., barrister-at-law, against S. Revans, Esq., followed by the solemn affirmation of this gentleman, and another solemn affirmation by Mr. James Smith. The deposition and subsequent proceedings would have appeared in the New Zealand Spectator and Cook's straits Guardian, as Police proceedings, had the Committee of that paper adopted the usual custom of reporting the business of that Court. Foi publishing a public document as an advertisement, the Committee seek to deprive us of our daily bread. The following are the names of the Committee :— Hon. H. Petre, C. Clifford, Esq., R. Stokes, Esq. T. M. Partridge, Esq., W. Lyon, Esq., The Printers of the Gazette Office will make every effort to render their publication useful and amusing. Printers are proverbial for the liberal tendency of their doctrines; and the undersigned pledge themselves to conduct the press in a liberal manner. While they will not. wilfully state aught in malice, i they claim the right and will assert the utility of criticising the public acts of men and public measures; but they pledge themselves to do bo in a generous strain, endeavouring at all times to avoid making the failings of human nature appear greater than they really are. Their columns will ever be open to the public, subject only to the same restraint as the Printers.will impose upon themselves. E. ROE, W. E. VINCENT, J. MUIR, G. FELLINGHAM, T. M'KENZIE. "Wellington, March 81, 1845.