To the Editor of the Datlt Sotjthirn Cross. Sib, — 1 cannot perceive much analogy between the position of the Jews in Auckland and the community in general. Your correspondent "0." gives the Hebrews great and just credit for maintaining their own poor, and also for relieving the stranger at their gate. Far be it from me to desire,, in any shape, to lessen a respect for the Jewish people, or in any way to depreciate their system of mutual assistance ; but I think they themselves do hot wish for more credit than they are entitled to. The Jews in Aucklaud, though rather numerous in proportion to what they generally are in British communities, are very few in comparison to the bulk of the population. The Jews are counted by tens, the Gentiles by thousands. A small community, composed mostly of merchants and factors, sprinkled and trading among ux.a^e not subject to the same vicissitudes as our own people, who are compelled to undertake all the drudgeries of life. A whole community cannot exist by trading and money-lending. In the principal foreign seaports of the world ace fro. be, found British, msrobftati) fuctori,

JEWS AND GENTILES.
