I PROSPECTUS OF aweekly paper, to be entitled IHE TAURANGA ARGUS, and opotiki reporter. |t is intended by the projectors, at the equest of a large t>ortion of the basiness nen and agriculturalists in and about rauranga to fill a want long felt by the aroduction of a Weekly Paper. In undertaking the arduous task o itarting a journal liere, we are fully aware >f the great responsibility we lay ourselves
mder. In Politics, we shail make it our study to lacs all questions of moment fully before e public, and where tiie interests and osperity of Tauranga are at stake we shall i found constantly at our post. Our acal Institutions shall meet with attention, id we shall', on vll -occasions^ endeator to isist in their progress. \Ve .shall at all times be most happy to jperp any commumeations with which vie jay be favored, althoagh we will t o i « urselves responsible for the opinions ex* iressed therein by our correspondents ; but
11 communications for the benefil f Tauranga will meet with especial. ttention, and pOrsonal eorrespondunce, havig a tendeney to cause ill-feeling oue with ie other, will find no plaee in the columr.s f the Argus. It is intended that tlre Abgus shali arttain all matters of Local interest, viz,, ihipping, . Markets, Police, Meetings, ioulhern News, Auckland Shipping -and >ommercial, &c., which ean be obtained up to the hour of going fo pi'ess, for securing which we liave made ample-provision. The great w-ant felt ot a cheap and respectable medium of advertising, wlnch we flatter
ourselves this will fill, induces us to inser* advertisements at the following rates : — On inch, three months, 30s. ; two inehes, ditto, 40s. ; atid so on, in proportion to the length of the adverfisement. Auctioneers will be allowed th^ usual discount. Advertisements for one, three, or six months, as agreed. In conclusion, we trust, that our endeavors will meet with the assistauee and approba • tion of the Public of Tauranga aud the surrounding dis^ricts. ILu'ing ^itnessed the success of similar publications, we throw. oukselves.entirely in your hands. Jobbihg of all dqscription done at Auckland prices, , Subscription, 6s. ^d. a Quaiter, paid is adyance,
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Tauranga Argus and Opotiki Reporter, Volume 1, Issue 1, 1 December 1866, Page 4
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360Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 Tauranga Argus and Opotiki Reporter, Volume 1, Issue 1, 1 December 1866, Page 4
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