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Otago Witness, Issue 1032, 9 September 1871, Page 3

More moderate views with regard to the Chinese care beginning to be entertained by some of the Goldfields newspapers. The "Dunstan Times, for instance, says :—": — " We endorse the opinion expressed by some of our contemporaries, that it will be best to light the enemy Avith his own weapons. Unanimity of action will help the European a:> much as it now helps the Chinese. Theru exists no insurmountable difficulty to European miners becoming extensive employers of Chinese labourers, utilising their good, qualities as patient drudges and willing tuilers, for the development of ground now abandoned, or rather unwillingly relinquished, to the Chinese themselves. The mental and physical superiority of the one race, aided by experience and wealth already gained, indicates that it should be the ruling power over the other, whose representatives here labour under the difficulty of being strangers in a strange land." The Auckland Morning News publishes the following extract from a private letter from San Francisco, dated July 18th : — "Mr Vogel arrived here yesterday, and sails tomorrow. He has not received the attention he did when passing through. English merchants grumble at his giving the mails to American bottoms, and tho Yankee merchants don't like Webb or his agent. I don't think you will havo Webb's line down your shores very long, Hib present subsidy don't pay, and neither Metoria nor New South Wales will give him a subsidy. It is stated here on very good authority that a company is being formed in England, in conjunction with the Australian Steam Navigation Company in Sydney, to put on larger and faster boats than Hall's present ones, and that they will run via Moreton Bay, Queensland."