'[T]he first object [of The Swan River News and Western Australian Chronicle] is not to secure a large circulation in this Colony, but to gain every publicity for it in England, and elsewhere ... The intention ... is that of dispensing authentic information relating to this long misrepresented Colony, and of correcting the erroneous impressions which are abroad ; and with this purpose, ... issuing the gratuitous copies throughout the provinces of England, the rural districts of Scotland and Ireland, the Channel Islands, America, and India, and hope by this means to promote the emigration of Capitalists, to attract the attention of agriculturists, and to give the British public, from time to time, an unexaggerated statement of the progress and prospects of a Colony of which they have hitherto heard so little.' - Advertisement in The Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal (24 August, 1844): 1.
