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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume 1, Issue 2, 12 October 1872, Page 2

The “ run” made on our first issue, notwithstanding that we struck off a second edition late on Saturday afternoon, is extremely gratifying. Those of our subscribers who have been already supplied, will, under the circumstances, pardon the reproduction of the article relating to ourselves ; as we have further enquiries and cannot satisfy them in “ pye”.

We do not think, from the great catalogue ox infirmities to which flesh is heir, the charge of egotism can be taken, and made applicable to us, for the congratulations we offer our readers this morning on the advent of a Newspaper in Poverty Bay. When, some few months since, the subject of such a possession was mooted, it, like many other questions of public policy, did not find universal favor; but the experience of the past year bears abundant testimojiy to the fact of a general progress in our midst: coevally with which, the steady advancement of liberal i leas with regard to men and things, and an eager desire manifest in the community to take an active part in the affairs of life, are notable as evidence of the superior intelligence which is growing up amongst us. The lapse of time which has occurred between the promise and the undertaking, reminds us, however, that an apology is due to our subscribers. “ Tis not in mortals to command success,” but we have done our best to deserve it. Those believers in practical philosophy that declare that man to be the greatest hero, who intent upon the achievement of a work on which he has set his mind, laboring with an undeviating will in the adaptation of means to ends,- have often an imperfect knowledge of the cost that achievement entails. But to us, the proud consciousness of doing good ; of lending a helping hand in the promotion of the best interests of the commonweal; of asserting the rights of the weak against the might of the strong; of opening up a means by which thought may be interchanged; of supplying a pabulum for which the public mind craves in these stirring times ; of offering an opportunity to all to foster the industries which are taking root in this partially-developed district; and of exercising the “prime wisdom” of “ doing that which doth before us lie in our daily life” is, in it-sclf, a reward which we shall endeavour to merit; and throw* to the winds the anxiety of the past in the hope of the future. Our creed, as fur as it is possible to condense a creed to aphorism, will be found at the head of our columns. In those trite words are to be found the true principles which will guide us in our onward march; and they should be sufficient, without any surplusage of explanation, to satisfy the most sceptical of the position it is intended this journal should occupy in dealing with public affairs. Our platform is a broad one. The JEgis of our authority will be thrown around those who are acting up to the truth. Argus will watch with a wary eye -, and Nemesis will as surely be on the trail of the wrong doer, as night follows day. Fiat Justitia I Our motto will be, “measures first, men after.” We disclaim all party feeling and distinction, as such, being firm in the belief that“good can come out of Nazareth.” The narrow minded prejudicies which arise, from the error of reducing the focus, through which we scan the conduct of others, to a bird’s-eye view, will receive scant mercy at our hands. Personal invective, that ancillary

companion of social scandal; the small talk of other folk’s private affairs; the stab in the dark; the broad-cast distribution of “intellectual slush ” (as a writer expressivley terms it) must be eliminated from our columns to command respect, and to achieve our object. We need hardly say that our columns will be open, without fear, favor, or reward, to all who are willing to conform to those rules, which should always regulate the conduct of public ■man, We confess to an enlarged liberality;

and shall esteem those, with whom we may 'differ, as entitled to respect; for one of the] 'oeculiar privileges of an Editor is, that he may Sromulgate the opinions of others without > ecessarily becoming identified with them, do ur Native friends, too, we would give a word f pleasing hope, that so soon as circumstances fill warrant it, we shall arrange to enlarge our pace, by which meaus they can publish their ’ views in their own vernacular. ' We are big with hope that this little enter* prise will expand in the fulness of time ; and as this is our jubilant expectation, we seek the cooperation so essential to success. Our readers may, therefore, rest confident that, as our own interests are identical with the prosperity of the district, we shall strive to promote that prosperity by every means at our command, and say

“Be gracious Heaven! For now laborious Man Hath done his part."