JOURNALISM IN SOUTHLAND.

Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 199, 8 January 1866, Page 3

JOURNALISM IN SOUTHLAND.

(From The Weekly Times.) On tlie occasion of our first appearance in the field of weekly literature, a few introductory remarks respecting the enterprise we haye undertaken may be not altogether put of place. In enlarging the sphere of our labors, we have been guided by the experience of the past, firmly believing, from the knowledge we have acquired of the elasticity of resource possessed by the Province, that welldirected exertion will not fail to meet with an adequate reward. It is true that, in common with our fellow-colonists, we have at times felt the depressing influence of reverses occasioned by causes beyond control. But these have not crushed our energies ; they have, on the contrary, risen with the necessity for their fuller exercise. In this we only share the unswerving determination of those who have deliberately adopted Southland as their future home. With its welfare and progress we are equally and inseparably identified. Elorid promises are usually but ill fulfilled, and we have ever believed the best assurance of merit was to be found in deeds rather than mere words. Tet a slight outline of what we shall conscientiously endeavor to render the 'Weekly Times may be permitted us. As a family paper, it will be our first care to secure that the tone of its contents shall make it a welcome and unexceptionable guest at the fireside of every settler who may deem it worthy of his support. It will also be a medium for the dissemination of. information alike useful and interesting to the farmer, the grazier, or the settler, on the management of the field, the dairy, or the garden. We may, at starting, claim some slight indulgence for inevitable shortcomings, as the arrangements for bringing out a new journal involve an amount of labor scarcely appreciable by the general public. It is perhaps unnecessary to more than allude to the additional working expenses incurred, as, to reimburse us for the outlay ; we rely upon a cordial and earnest support by all classes. That this wiil be accorded we cannot doubt, in the face of the success attending our past labors. In political matters it will be our aim to avoid an unreasoning partisanship of person or clique. By whomsoever liberal views may be enunciated, they shall meet with a, fair and dispassionate consideration. We have now trespassed long enough on the patience of our readers, and without further preface leave them to the perusal of the first number of the Weekly Times.