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In the notices to correspdondents, the Colonist responds to a reader who has alerted the newspaper that a Mr Fell, 'now of The Gazette establishment, was a fellow clerk and old chum of [William] Watt's in England, and that we may expect more of Messrs. Todd and Morrisson's men out by and bye'.
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(p. 316)The Colonist announces the departure of Kenneth Munro and the arrival of Henry Bull as editor of the newspaper. Munro leaves to 'devote himself to agricultural pursuits'; Bull takes up the position following failed business endeavours in Van Diemen's Land. Coinciding with the change, the Colonist outlines a change in emphasis for the newspaper. It will assume 'a much more merchantile character than it has hitherto exhibited'.
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To the Australian Public,
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(p. 316)
Henry Bull introduces himself to the readerhip of the Colonist: 'Having assumed the management of the Colonist newspaper, as will be seen by the imprint in to-day's number, I may perhaps be permitted on this occasion to step aside from the usual course of an editor, and address my fellow-colonists in the first person singular'.
Bull announces his intention to 'advance the best interests of this rapidly flourishing colony, by encouraging morality, religion, literature and commerce, and by being a faithful chronicler of the events of the times uninfluenced by sordid selfishness or the "pomp and circumstance of power", unbiassed by partiality on the one hand, and undeterred on the other by the threats of evil doers, how powerful soever they may be, from steadily pursuing the path of truth and the course of justice'.
