THE MAORI MESSENGER. Auckland, May 24, 1849.

Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume 1, Issue 11, 24 May 1849, Page 1

THE MAORI MESSENGER. Auckland, May 24, 1849.

To get any piece of machinery, whether material or moral, into active and efficient operation, must ever be a work of time, perseverance, and anxiety. Even in ordinary literary undertakings, where means and appliances are at command, where writers a>e as numerous as they are willing, and where little else than a .sound 'discrimination, in the employment of the materials submitted, is essential to success, much difficulty must, nevertheless, prevail. If, then, it be an arduous matter in such undertakings, we believe that a far greater degree of perplexity will be allowed to exist in the conduct and compilation of a Journal, if not of absolutely novel design, at least of such wide and diversified range, as to render its mere construction, irrespective of the quality of its contributions, a task of the utmost nicety, to prove amusing and ins'nictive to the intelligent, but unlettered, lice to whom it is addressed, and for whose mental en ightenment it has been devised.

We have had our fair share of difficulty and anxiety ; —but our labours have latterly been lightened by the assistance of so many able and liberal contributors, and their, and our, exertions have elicited so much friendly criticism and approval, from the Journalists of other Colonies, that we feel deeply gratified at past reputs, and earnestly hopeful of future desert: —tosecure which no industry on our jmrt shall be wanting.

Circumstances, beyond our power of con'roul, have, hitherto, caused n"lt irregularity in the issue of our publication. This, we trust, will be the lust number in which such want of punctuality shall occur; —indeed, it should have been removed in this, luul we not deemed it advisable to keep back the paper until we could prepare a desuiiption, for our Maori friends, of the various festivities wliinh gave interest to Her Majest>'s birthday. Thanks to the considerate kindness of those who regard our Journal in its true character—that of a sincere and honest organ of Native instruction—we are no longer thrown upon our own individual resources, or those of a few indefatigable friends. We have, now, to acknowledge an accession of varied nnd valuable aid, such as, tve trust, will infuse double spirit, and impart an agreeable diversity to our pages.