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The want of a journal for advocating the various and important interests of the Western interior, beyond the narrow limits of a mere local paper, has long been felt and deplored by the large population engaged in the various industrial pursuits in those districts of the colony.

'To supply this deficiency, we beg to give notice of our intention to start a newspaper, to remedy as far as lies in our power, this hiatus in the publications of the day. We purpose issuing, under the above designation, a Weekly Paper, to advocate the three great Interests of the Western interior-the ''Pastoral, Agricultural, and Mining," and it will be our paramount object to support the interests and further the development of all, and to show that each is dependant upon and necessary to the other.

'Although professedly inclined on a wide and extensive basis, the local wants and commercial interests of the district of Mudgee will be carefully attended to and all matters of general interest will be duly chronicled in its pages.

'The politics of THE WESTERN POST will be liberal and progressive, and it will be the earnest endeavour of its conductors that, while giving free expression of opinion to all, to steer clear of any party bias;- on the one hand deprecating change for the sake of change; and, on the other, scouting that policy that will not advance with the times.

'With these introductory remarks, we respectfully solicit the support of the public to The Western Post, shortly about to be issued, and we do so with more confidence from the moderate views we advocate, and the broad and comprehensive basis on which our journal will be conducted.

'Mudgee, August 25th, 1859'

Source: The Sydney Morning Herald, 7 September 1859, p. 8