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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1103, 22 July 1882, Page 2

The honor of our dissolution draws rapidly nigh, and we speculate with bated breath and vivid apprehension upon the mystic future of our transmogrification. And yet, like the dying Christian, we have no fear, but a sure and certain hope that peace and plenty, if not glory, awaits our advent into that precious kingdom of evening dailies so dear to the soul of a journalist. For ten years we have well and faithfully served the interests of the public, with, as Mr Samuel Welles would observe, “ a slight eye to our own,” and now, in passing from the public gaze as a tri-weekly, and making our appearance in the transformation scene in the more beatified form of a daily evening, we feel sure that we are still furthering those interests. It is more than gratifying to us to recognize the amount of sympathy and support which has been accorded to us in our journalistic childhood, and we are sure that we shall be believed when we promise that the boy shall be the father of the man, and that our journal shall be always open for prosecution of public interest and the righting of wrong. To-day’s is our last issue as a tri-weekly. On Monday our new existence commences, and if it only proves as satisfactory to the public as our moribund past, assuming the proof of the pudding to lay in the eating of it, we shall be more than satisfied. With these few words and the promise that we shall continue the same independent line which marks the spirit of our journalistic efforts, we thank the public most sincerely for the generous support they have accorded to us, and, in articulo mortis, express the hope that as’it has been in the past, so it will be in the future of the Povebty Bax Standard