The Southland Times. FRIDAY, MARCS 23, 1866.

Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 232, 23 March 1866, Page 2

The Southland Times. FRIDAY, MARCS 23, 1866.

Newspapebs are popularly supposed to be able to work miracles. The reports of all local matters are looked for, a budget of English news is considered md ispensible, and full accounts of the doings in the provinces and the neighboring colonies ; while but few know or realise the fact that to accomplish all this immense expense and ceaseless energy is indispensible. To give voluminous reports of the transactions of public bodies, to satisfy the cravings of the political mind, and supply matter for thought to the philosophic thinker, and entertaining reading for the mass, is a task of no small difficulty, especially in a place like this where literary and mechanical aid is almost unobtainable when circumstances arise requiring more than ordinary labor and expense. "We have endeavored, if not to work wonders, to at least do all with the appliances at command to approach as near to them as possible. . JFeeling that Southland has been traduced by the press of the colony — her poverty has been paraded, her depression proclaimed as arising from the ineompetency of her legislators and the political apathy of the people — we have endeavored by giving full reports of the election meetings, the Provincial Council, and other public matters to show to tbe colony at large that Southland is not so bad as she ha 6 been painted. It is to be hoped that in j some measure we have succeeded. In our present issue will be found fuli reports of the major portion of the debates which have taken place in tht Provincial Council. The Wednesday sitting — the financial statement, &c. — we are compelled to hold over to make rooiu for the English newa, but a .compleu reoQ^ wiil ftoneft? jn Saturday's Weekly

Times. We haye aimed to be impartial in our reports, unpartizan in oiir comments, and cosmopolitian in our views. That we have not accomplished all we could desire we acknowledge, but that we have done all in our power we are certain. "What deficiences may be observable in this morning's paper^sdll be made up in the Weekly issue to-morrow, when we purpose, in order to give everything as full as possible, to publish an extra sheet.