The New Zealand Times (PUBLISHED DAILY.) FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1878..

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5329, 26 April 1878, Page 4

The New Zealand Times (PUBLISHED DAILY.) FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1878..

We have much pleasure in presenting to our readers this morning the New Zealand Times in an enlarged form. This being the day for the publication of the monthly mail summary, our paper is of eight pages, but the ordinary issue will be of four. This increased size will afford ample room for fuller reports of proceedings than we have of late been able to give owing to pressure on our space, and we will be in a position to present our readers with original and extract matter on a more liberal scale, and more varied in character, than hitherto.

The Wellington Independent (which is incorporated with the New Zealand Times) first appeared in 1845, and since that time there has been no cessation of publication. This is now the oldest journal in the colony, and its age may be put down as a third of a century; a time that in old countries would not seem much, but measured by the standard of experience in young colonies, it must be counted as a long life. We have to thank many old settlers and many comparativelynow arrivals in the colony—the old slock and the new, who have together made this city and district what it j s for a large measure of support, and for evidence of much kindly feeling. It cannot be denied that in the past there have been in this, as in all enterprises, shortcomings. But these have been forgiven, and we hope that in the future the career of the New Zealand Times will be one of increased usefullness, —that we will have greater power for good, a more extended influence,—and further, that we will enjoy, what is always welcome, a large commercial prosperity. Our readers may rest assured of this, that neither expense nor trouble will be spared to make this journal an able and outspoken advocate of the views which its conductors may deem to be those most deserving of advocacy. Our policy will be, as it has been, liberal and progressive. No journal more boldly and pertinaciously supported the Immigration and Public Works policy introduced by Sir Julius Vogel, a policy that has made New Zealand progress with a rapidity and with a continuous prosperity that have not been equalled in any other colony. The day has passed at which, according to prophets of evil, the colony was to be ruined ; indeed many days, foretold by men of timid hearts and narrow minds as the time of national bankruptcy, have gone by, and what do we find? The whole of New Zealand prospering far more than any of our Australian sisters, and Wellington, the capital of the colony, flourishing more than any of our other large cities. “ A Liberal” is -a much abused term. "We do not pretend that the New Zealand Times will be a Liberal journal after the manner of some people. There are now among our public men those who are prepared to advocate the wildest and most impracticable views, if by doing so they can but catch the ear of the unthinking. Such people have abounded in Australia, and their demands, in the name of the people, for wild reforms, impossible of accomplishment, caused them to be sarcastically described as men who would be prepared _ to adopt as their slogan “Everything feverybody,” and to propound as th sir policy the necessity and the fairnesiJ of having an equal distribution of prop, erty every Saturday night. The conduct .of - many in Australia, and of not a a few la’tsly in New Zealand, in has degraded t bo name of Liberal. Who are the men t'bat hold themselves up to be champions. °f the Liberal cause, who are the Ministers oo mposing the so-called Liberal Cabinet ? Ain't oßll without exception those who cluno- in t be most tenacious manner to the petty and' narrow views which had been engendered by provincial institutions ; men who, as provincial officers, had influence to wibich they clung with a greed that arose mAt from the love of money but from a lusv for power. Their views, when they fell npon ears unused to hear the praises of tl> most petty provincialism chanted, ludicrously narrow and small; yet for, sooth these are they who now cry “We are the only true Liberals.” The NiW Zealand Times will advocate an. eh-hghtened, a progressive. and a Liberal policy; but we cannot yet shout “ Everything every-

body,” as the head of the self-dubbed Liberal Party has beau loudly doing, to the thumping of _ big drums and the waving of banners, in his recent stumping tour. Returning to ourselves, we thank our friends for their past suport, and look confidently to the future.