The Auckland Chronicle. Thursday, May 2, 1844.

Auckland Chronicle and New Zealand Colonist, Volume 2, Issue 39, 2 May 1844, Page 2

The Auckland Chronicle. Thursday, May 2, 1844.

We take the liberty of respectfully intimating to our friends and subscribers that the present number of the Chronicle completes the third quarter of the second year. We will not weary our readers with a lengthened disquisition upon the usefulness or success of our paper as a public journal; or as is usual sometimes with a learned contemporary wind up with a” modest panegyric upon past efforts, but we feel confident in appealing to public testimony, in favour of our anxious endeavours at all times to furnish them with correct reports of the Legal and Criminal sittings, and* Police cases of interest and importance, also of the Shipping intelligence, state of- the Harbour, Arrivals and Departures, &c. We have manifested a disposition to give them as much news as possible within the compass of our paper, by printing the greater part of it in small type, thereby enabling us to notice local events of passing interest, as they glide by in rapid succession, and to furnish copious extracts from the latest English and Foreign papers. We can also conscientiously assert that we have in our leading articles uniformly advocated those principles that we have deemed to be just and equitable, and conducive to the well-being of the Colony, without fear or favour j and as long as we continue to publish this journal, we pledge ourselves to pursue the same independent course.

We have resolved at all hazards to continue our paper, and trust our friends will exert themselves in support of the Chronicle ; we can assure them from experience, that as a pecuniary speculation, a newspaper in Auckland is a losing concern, and we have no doubt both our contemporaries will concur with us, that double or even treble the present number of subscribers, to either of the Auckland Journals would not, as far as pecuniary considerations weigh, compensate either of tis for our trouble and expense. We will conclude by wishing our friends and the Colony of New Zealand every happiness and success ; it has of late unhappily been our duty to write in times of unprecedented depression, and to notice the many existing grievances, and just causes of complaint, but we expect brighter and happier days are In store for us ; we feel confidentCaptain Fitz-Roy will cause us to realize those hopes which we have entertained of him, and we trust from

the character of his government, a new era will commence in the history of this Colony, from whence we shall be able to date its prosperity. The political and commercial aspect of New Zealand, has long been gloomy and overcast, but we-rely on her capabilities, and doubt notf with a proper system of Government she will emerge from her obscurity, and assume that rank and importance among her Majesty’s Colonies which her natural resources eminently entitle her to, but which she has hitherto been deprived of, by the ignorance, folly, and dishonesty of the late Government.