TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS AND FRIENDS.

Wellington Independent, Volume II, Issue 66, 30 May 1846, Page 2

TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS AND FRIENDS.

from this date, the *' Wellington Independent" will be issued semi-weekly, vifc., every Wednesday and Saturday. We are led to this proceeding from a variety of causes, but principally from the fact that we have been compelled to omit, for want of space, numerous interesting local paragraphs. We shall continue to make every possible exertion to render our paper an organ for the settlers. Every statement likely to be of service to the general interests of the colonists will be attended to, and, following up She course hitherto pursued, no man's communication will be refused insertion, provided it be written in becoming language, not libellous, and authenticated with the signature of the writeT. We have made preparation for regular communication with the several places on the coast, so that we shall bo enabled to furnish our readers with all matters affecting those localities. We trust that every well-wisher to the Colony will supply us with suggestions tending to the advancement of the settlement. And here we beg again to state that we can have no possible interept distinct from that of the colony which we have adopted for our home. We have no connection with Government -*• none with the Company— neither have we any cause to uphold the Absentees. Any of their proceedings likely to prove beneficial to the Colony we shall advocate ; any likely to prove adverse to the progress of the same, we shall strenu - ously oppose. We have to thank the Public for their past support, and it shall always be our . duty to 8 rive to merit its continuance. We arc desirous to render our periodical as serviceable as possible to the advertising community. To carry out this! object, we shall continue to receive ad-» j vertisements up to seven o'clock of the morning of publication, without extra charge. The public must admit that from our presence in the field, they have been benefitted in a great degree. We shall 6tillexert ourselves to prevent monopoly,

and wo trust that our •friends tv-ill have no occasion to objooi to our list of prices. [n conclusion, v?e begftgSin 'to-state Wat for the Settlors only, and by the Settlers, was the " Independent'" started. It belioves the settlors therefore to maintain a journal bent on opposing the measures of any'party not having the Welfare of Ne : w-Zealand at heart, and to prevent the settlement from again relapsing into that deadly unanimity, which results from absence of opportunity to express a difference of opinion.