The Hawaiian gazette., 1875-09-08
WEDNESDAY,. SEPT s

OK our fourth page viii be found decision
of the majority of the bench of the Supreme
Court, Justice Judd dissenting in suit where
the complication is increased by the dishonesty
of former attorney of one of the parties, in
some real estate transaction which took place
years ago The present decision reverses that
of Justice Judd published some months since.
SIR ARTHUR GoRDoN, the new Governor of
FIJI, is chiefly known for his stern dealing in
the imported coolies question in the West
Indies. A correspondent writing from FIJI,
says: "No one in FIJI will quarrel with him SO
long as the dealings, however stern, are not
unfair to the white men, whose interests are
also to be regarded in this matter, and whose
only desire will be fairplay. By the schooners
May and Minerva, see that l4O laborers are
returned to Tanua one of the New Hebrides
group. The number thus returned from time
! to time must now be considerable, and there
must be few of these islanders in which pigeon
English is not to be heard, and in which the
ways of white men are not more or less under
stood"
An American paper, discussing free trade,
says: This is the plain duty and the plain
interest of the human race. To level all bar
riers to free exchange, to cut up the system of
restriction, root and branch, to open every
port on earth to every product is the Office
of an enlightened humanity and an enlightend
press. To this free nation should especially
pledge itself, Freedom of the seas, freedom
Of harbors, an intercourse of nations free as
the winds,-this is not dream of philanthro-
pists. We are tending towards it, and let US
hasten it. Under wiser and more Christian
civilization we shall look back on our present
restrictions as we do on the swaddling band
by which in darker times, the human body
was impressed"
THE Adoeyriser takes exceptions to our es-
innate of the trade between this port and San
Francisco for 1876, as given in our last issue,
and states that over eight millions of sugar
were exported to other countries than the
United States in 1874 Very true, but does the
editor of that paper believe that the same
amount will be sent to other countries than the
United States after the new treaty takes effect ?
So with rice, molasses and other articles-the
bulk of our exports will 90 where we stated
they will; and our estimate will undoubtedly
prove below rather than above the real figures.
Such will be the results produced by reciprO-
city with the United States. No one posted
in commercial matters will say that our esti-
mate is overrated.
In one of Sir Hercules Robinson's speeches
on FIJI, he states that as that group is located
q within twenty degrees of the equator, the con-
ditions are unfriendly to European life, and
prohibit the employment of white labor.
Under the most favorable circumstances FIJI
can only become colony somewhat similar
to Ceylon, or Java. or the Mauritius, producing
tropical products by means of black labor, IN
der white supervision and superintendent.
Under no circumstances can the place develop
like Australia, or New Zealand, or North
America, into permanent home for the Anglo
Saxon race. The bulk of the community can
never be people speaking the English language,
but must be composed of orientals of some
description, as they alone are capable OF labor
ing and living under the vertical rays of
tropical sun"
Whether his language applies correctly to
Fiji or not, we cannot say, but it cannot apply |
to the Hawaiian Islands, because they are
located "within twenty degrees of the equator"
The trade winds give us the mild climate at
latitude of 80 degrees in Western Europe or
Western Oceanica; and certain it is that foreign
ers can bear the heat here about as well as
natives 1t is no doubt very different in
countries where trade winds do not prevail.
Improvements i'm TeIegraPhy.
We last week referred to a new company
which proposes to transmit telegraph MESA
ges of ten words for ten cents, when sent less
l. IL