The Dunstan Times FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1867.

Dunstan Times, Issue 286, 18 October 1867, Page 2

The Dunstan Times

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1867.

Beneath the Rule of Men entirely Jt'ST, the PES is mightier than the sword.

We tliis morning present on readers with the Ditxstan Timks in an improved form. The addition to our columns, we trust, will not only ailbrd increased accommodation to advertisers, but will also enable ns to deal more fully than heretofore with matters of general public importance. It has always been the aim of the proprietors of this journal to keep pace with, or rather to ant: :ipate, the growing wants of this large and important district, always bearing in mind the maxim that "not to advance is to recede. During the last two years the Dunstan has established itself as one of the most permanent and prosperous mining districts in Otago. Its inhabitants, although not much increased in numbers, have materially done so in wealth. from small puny undertakings, our mining enterprises have assumed gigantic proportions. Labor is systematically and properly directed, employments of all descriptions have become permanent, and, instead of a nomade population, we see them everywhere settling themselves down with the evident intention of making the

pursuit of gold-mining the legitimate culling of their lives. The pursuit of agriculture, notwithstanding the difficulties 'experienced in obtaining possession of land, has made | considerable progress. Homesteads are •everywhere springing up in sheltered nooks under the ranges, and wherever suit ible situations can be selected and no opposition is offered by the pastoral tenants of the Crown the labor of the husbandman is made manifest. To this class of the population 7 oiri r future, •progress and prosperity will be much indebted. It is through their means that we are mainly supplied with the necessaries of life, and as the tillers of the soil increase in number and extend their operations, so must all consumable articles be reduced in price. This alone will be an additional source of wealth, as, by lessening tho cost of living, enterprises which would be ruinous at present can then be embarked in with profit, and additional 'employment aftbided for hands willing to work, which will go on increasing as our natural resources become developed. Referring once more to ourselves, we can only say that no exertion will be spared on our part to make the Duxstax Times the leading journal on the goldfields, if it has not already assumed that position. As an exponent of public opinion our course has been to deal impartially with all panics and factions, so long as communications to this journal arc divested of personality and temperately written, whatever opinions the writers may hold, we shall not refuse them publicity, believing, as we do, that, where the population is a mixed one and its numbers comparatively small, the good sense of the journalist should direct him not to identify himself with any party or clique, but preserve that independence and impartiality which alone can give satisfaction to his readers, he being rather an exponent of public opinion than a dictator. As an advertising medium the DuNstan Tisies affords great advantages. It is largely circulated on all the goldlieds and everywhere throughout, the provinces of New Zealand, while it also finds its way to most of the principal places of importance in Australia.