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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'.