THE AUCKLAND PRESS.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume II, Issue 57, 31 July 1862, Page 3

THE AUCKLAND PRESS.

(From the Aucklander, June 25.) Reports have been rife for some weeks of an expected daily New Zealander, but we believe few were prepared to sec the Southern Cross in a daily dross. We confess we are more than gratilled that the Southern Cross should have taken the initiative. The prostitution of the functions of a public journal to the selfish ambition of its owner, the Superintendent of the Province, has been so notorious in the New Zealander, as to excite very general disgust. The total disregard of truth ; the studied contrivance of falsehood ; the malignant satire upon individuals; the defence of corruption, in every shape and degree, have made it the duty of every rightminded person to putdown the New Zealander as a public evil and a public reproach. The leading articles of the oldef journal are beneath criticism. The mental force of its writers is paralysed by a long continued course of deception. No one resorts to the New Zealander for a trustworthy account of local politics, or a fair exposition of public questions. The new arrangements of the

Southern Cross will, it is to be expected* furnish the public with the same amount of information as it will be in the power of the New Zealander to furnish, even should the New Zealander follow the example of the Southern Cross by a daily issue. The Aucklander stands upon a different ground from either of its contemporaries. It is not a commercial speculation. Its vocation is that of duty—not of pecuniary gain. Its cause of justice and of truth ; and, from the cause of justice and of truth, no inducements of pecuniary gain, no preference fur party, no consideration for individuals, will induce it to swerve. The Aucklander has entered upon its second year of trial. Unable hitherto to cope with its contemporaries in extent or variety of information, it has been able to hold its ground solely by its fearless discus--sion of public questions in the interests of truth. It will shortly appear in a new dress. It will not compete with a daily paper in the extent of its matter, but it will supply the wants of those who regard the weight rat her than the bulk of what is placed before them ; of those whose judgment by reason of use is competent to distinguish the pure or from the tinsel of baser metal; of those whose native love of truth has not been corrupted and perverted by a pursuit of the wretched objects of ambition or of gain to which our public institutions have drawn the attention of active minds, while they have gone far to exclude independence of thought and action.