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Otago Daily Times, Issue 1, 15 November 1861, Page 3

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As we do not believe in professions, but prefer to be rather judged by practice, we shall be extremely brief in our opening remarks. The Times is designed to supply the want now generally felt of a daily journal, containing an" account of all passing news of interest, and full commercial intelligence. We do not desire to reflect on or come into collision with the two weekly papers . already existing. Our sphere and theirs will be widely different, and although in size we cannot compare with our bisf contemporaries, we trust we shall not be behind in the race-of usefulness.- Experience of late years in ""another "'arena;, has shown that activity and energy more than compensate for a deficiency of-size. It is not our purpose however to limit ourselves to the present size, on tbe contrary we propose, almost immediately, to come out as a full double demy sheet, as soon as the necessary 'materials can be procured Irom Melbourne. One feature :of" the -Daily Timbs* ■will "be'full details-of commercial iutcUfc gence.' In- this we include publication oi manifests, latest shipping news, accounts of large sales, late quotations, and other mibrmatiojiof the same character. The latest proourable'news from the Diggings, and ail matters affecting the interests and weliare ol tbe mimrs will iiod ready and -acceptable ■ insertion in our columns?. aSTor will we be uniiund-' M of the great inducingitttemtSj .of W

agriculturist, and of the follower of pastoral pursuits. Jsio pains will he* spared fo obtain intelligence of all news that occurs in and around town, aitd-arrangements are'being wade to obtain correspondence from country districts. A able and frequent correspondent has also been engaged iii Melbourne,; Sydney, Auckland, Christchurch, and Southland, * With'politics we desire to meddle, as little as possible. .Our interference VilL be .limited .to. a detail of facts and to a treatment of those matters which have a direct bearing on the religious, social, or ma* terial condition of the Province, It is hardly necessary to say that our columns 'will not be open to sectarian controversies, but it will always be our aim to encourage everything calculat«dto promote the *acred. interests of. religion. And now let us make an appeal partaking of a rather egotistical character? one which we trust we wili never again have occasion to make. The cost and expenses of bringing out a daily paper are enormous, far' lucre than people generally suppose. ' .The benefits arising from a daily paper are not to be exagge-rated.~-rlndepen.dent of the epporf unity it affords to the community .0? making its wants felt-audit's wishes Known to the. outside world, and so asserting its-dignity and advancing its' importance* the-moral, social, and comrhercial influences of a- daily journal are strongly marked. ' It brings them'Sambers of a community, into closer unity ?. knits bonds of fellow-' ship between theny, not .lightlysevered;. facilitates business 5 advances the yaiue of property, and in short mixes itself up so intimately with the daily events of life that once having experienced its- benefits, its absence is nothing short of a public calamity. To the community, as a whole, then we Appeal to assist us in carrying out what to themselves" we hope will be beneficial.' We •do not fear for the result commercially when the paper is once started, but a beginning is very difficult. The French wifely say cc tfest qm It premier pas gui coide, and we feel sure that after once .obtaining a start, the rest, will be plain sailing.- Let the' public foster the first days of theyoung bantling, not only with copious supplies of advertisements, but with assistance in enlarging in every way the circulation, and we promise on our part, that the infant shall advance to rapid dcvelopement, and become a journal calculated to reflect credit on tliofce who aided its earlier i*ays. ■