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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3864, 18 May 1881, Page 2

Our Auckland correspondent writes as under:—There is no doubt but the Auck. land Observer is taking a lead in the field of journalism. The able political articles which have recently appeared ia it ko '■:*• long way to make it one of the. most readable weeklies in any part; of thej colony. The contributions against the present system of Gorernmen6 lAfe Insurance which have lately appeared in the paper are much talked ofr The writer, I know, is a' local man,, and I would recommend ? ixe Commissioner, Mr Luckie, tq adopt lir Julius Vbgers.planj. ascertain ,who he. a^. find but what he wants, iand square Kirn.'

The following is the latest phase a Chinese immigration : — The steamr Lydia, Captain Poulson, put into Hoc>lalu with 700 Chinese on board. Thy mutinied, and threatened to murder 4e European crew, and the captain apptyi to the authorities for assistance. ,'%& police endearoured to board the *e*fl, f but after exhausting their ammoaJUM retired, and the Chinamen then atta^ed, the crew in the forecastle, but as siieeiv of them bad served their time inthe' German army, they fought for their r§s, laud drove them back down the holdwd, closed the hatches on thorn till the 'lie* and soldiers arrived. The Ho4«ln.' Gazette says that eighty of th« laUi (Chinese) importations are reported be pirates by profession.