The Southland Times. THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1864.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 1, 2 June 1864, Page 2

The Southland Times. THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1864.

One of the latest incidents recorded in the columns of our prototype/ was the episode of that ill-omeneOptf ,bour, during which desolation HusiirpPd^fthe Yplape; ofvwell ordered and, bu#Ylife,. leaving, heaps of Smouldering ashes alone.* to mark the site n 6f'a jptte^Q? ljutidings 1 Comprising others the local habitation of the ''"invtf-: T^Ti^%otwc^itulate; ,t^p,pccj«ipn-|\yas pnet^t,wiU. dwell for a iobgidtime.:in..the jmemory of our fellow colonists;- An prganizap(?n atteined at the expend and unpeasing, aSsidliityy was sh^te¥ed the possiYbility of repair: * There reWMned but the fpW^fesoin^e^ the ,ay<cLuo^^ combination of "|^^S^ spua|«^Lß4 i| l^sl** , ?^ ,E f a^^ c *N |Jpui^^^atfßi<^& i '^Trtte^^-yie.- i^pip ; -^uiuirmpbi-' *U^*o^6^bnMa^P j&ndered "if impossible ; lrlelS^p Ihe^iow-wo^;; ; *^h|fc!H^ * pa fbrmer^tiM ~7-I?npugh, r however, rp- ! ?ii|pffi^jpj^ with the ; ffit&fc We^^k'noYnaSty pjOhe FB#cesß or otherwise, of our -esf^ f flmt ; ll^r^fSt(t^ -j tale of ;so^ained 'Z ena^iivpr. SWp Yitnay frankly sasy^flfe Jakig C*we. -are igl^d bfloe' more^ ,' i a^oaat^J^endy' 'aitd • the' ■ t j^^jii^tt^ ; i life, and thatwe^resume spufcliabPTS -with a feeKng of *flatisfaQ-tion. in haying thus far oYercdme u (iifficT_ltie- of no br^aiy naiHire.^ \

Timei in ite unceasm^ :mwkpd|-Twe believe b*i^^ansi«o^ciuMi^e : ms i^ej^^ecWbf affMr? in o^JydjoiMM Provmcei .^^e^er^J^ mis^iia(^|Bat :;^-^Ami\^SM^SloP'K radten^'-lSri^ a . '$*. ..-.?. s, '■<y \ vC' ■ V^-ii, ''*! a. the currpnt of events, we will not at present undertake tb say, but we find our- , selves launching out lnp^the p^psp^t eente r „ prise 'in the -V&y^ midst of /one of ihbse "^>eridder«f dppr^sioii^^^ whfch" "hav^*as 'in^ variably marked 1 the history of infant colonies as f pf, fuU-grpwiL nations. tvTp joi» the Kronen^ thre^, seeking once To_ore> to gather, and giye permanence to tne otherwise floating aod evanescent, -'il »--•*''*• **/i .1* v* <-„- v i r\ ••{Ym--:'-','** . * * "' , '^».*'S.'' " 1 - CC* v * "i-l I but JV more pr^ less important' mass of ihcidelit^cc^ctea : *in 't;b_ L co^imns of la newspapefc - r "^Ottr 'confidence in. tne future* is unsbaten, and we-areVn^t of isuch^ w^xen- mould" as to be 'deterred^ from the prosecution of avdytige^DPcause 6p_ae 'shadowy- clouds ■ shut out for , ao time ,fehe;. cheering a influpncp- of thb_ sun's raya. We hay#'-not forgotten^that Southland owed YitSa risei neither, to the influence ,-v.of^fortuitous, igold-fieldsp or its selection by-wealthy colonists as |a field -for 'thew'operationsjjYbut to tbp f •intrinsic -** and— durable~~advantager"£rp« $onted its\ 1-^vel -and fertile', plains" fitted by nature to become the home of a hardy and industrious population. Not that we would- undervalue the benefit derivable from a proximity to remunera*.; \ tive goid-fields, serving admirably under judicious Management "-as '-a- means to ant J end, but simply that we would not have them made?or considered'^ the AMlpha and Omega of prosperity. Gold miners alfe merely an excellent manufacture of your genuine colonist, and should be valued accordingly. JBut we digfess^^ur remarks were intended to be simply prefatory, and we have already plunged in medias res. '. Our re-introduction is completed—may .we., .renew s the .plpasant relations of the past. " j . ,-j i