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Southland Times, Issue 600, 5 December 1866, Page 2

It is very seldom that we seek to intrud ourselves or our business transactions on the notice of the public, but on the present occasion we must solicit the indulgence of our readers in order to mate them acquainted with certain contemplated changes and alterations which will shortly take place in this journal. In the first place it has long been felt by the proprietors of this journal, and its contemporary, that owing to the altered circumstances of the Province and the decrease of population, the task of issuing a large-sized newspaper on alternate days was no easy one. Few are acquainted with the toil, trouble, and expense necessary to produce a journal that affords information of passing events, and at the same time supplies a want essential to every British community. Therefore in order to keep up the thread of current events, and afford the mercantile and business men all the advantages arising from a daily publication, it has been deemed desirable to somewhat reduce the size of both journals. By this means each proprietary avoid incurring a pecuniary loss, whilst the public will not be deprived of any less quantity of reading matter. It is simply a mechanical economical arrangement that may aid in increasing the interest in the local press by adopting a system of condensation of interesting extracts. The desirability of a community possessing two newspapers of distinct and individual political creed cannot be questioned, and in order to afford full scope for the development of this principle, the proprietors of both journals have agreed to abandon a ruinous competition, which, if continued, must have diminished their resources and crippled the free and independent advocacy of the diverse political policy which either deem it a duty to pursue. A few. words in conclusion, with reference to the "Weekly Ttmes. After a yenr's existence, under no ordinary difficulties, but which have be:en successfully surmounted, and suh as appertain to the establishment of a new journal, the proprietors are induced to largely increase the size of that paper, and bring it out in a form now acknowledged to be far more convenient as a family, paper than its "present shape. This can easily be accomplished by the aid of the machinery and other complete appliances which this establishment possesses. In addition to this we purpose from time to time to give illustrations of New Zealand and Australian scenery, and other interesting pictorial representations. As the expense will be considerable we trust that our efforts will be commensurately appreciated.