The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1876-11-04

HAWAII is in need Of population. Immigrants
who by habit and training are cultvators of the
soil, and who will settle permanently in the
country, arc the sort we need. But the first in
importance Of our needs is n government that
will recognize the urgent necessity of immigra-
ton, and possessed Of the requisite enterprise
and energy to procure it. We have been told
that the japanese, a race confcssedly superior
for our purposes to the Chinese, will not emf
crate. The government of South Australia,
however, is about to make the effort to procure
an immigration from Japan, rs will be seen by
the following extract from the Express and
Telegraph of Adelaide, of Sept. 6:
MIR. Wilton Hack, who is on a visit to this col
ony, after 4 residence of several years in Japan,
has submitted to our Government n scheme for the
settlement of emigrants OF a desirable class from
that country in the Northern Territory. He has no
idea Of bringing TO Port DAWN Japanese coolies,
who would be dependent for employment upon
mining companies, and, in the event Of that re-
source failing them, would be thrown upon the
Government for support; but his plan is to induce
persons Of a better class, including mechanics,
cultivators of the soil, and, if possible, men with
more or less capital, to form n complete commu-
nifty OF their own, se!fdependent, and ready at
once to deyelope the capabilities of the land on
which they might locate themselves. They should
Mr.. Hack thinks, take a years provisions, with
tools. and everything necessary TO place them
above the risk of privation, and dependent OF
supplies that would have 10 be carried over flooded
country, at an nO;mous cost. The climate Of
Japan is like that Of the Northern Territory,
tropical, with the heavy rains falling in the hot
season ; and the products Of the former country,
such as rice. sugar, and cotton, would undoub-
tedly flourish In Alexandra Land. Mr.. Hack has
been engaged by our Government 10 negotiate
with the Japanese authorities with 4 view to carry
ing out this project and having been in the en-
ployment Of the government Of Japan, and ac-
quired a considerable acquaintance with the GUS
toms and character of the people, among whom
he laborea as Il missionary for several years, he
undoubtedly possesses peculiar qualifications for
the work he is undertaking. He has no doubt of
the success Of the scheme If there is no official OBJ
s~truction in Japan itself but emigration, except
of a few individuals now and then, is altogether
new 10 that nation. The people are enterprising,
intelligent, and industrious, and could hardly fail
to prosper in such 4 country as our Northern
Territory, where both soil and climate are suitable
to the industries to which they have been a:cus-
toned, and where they would have the advantage
OF getting large quantities Of land on easy terms.
After such a settlement as Mr.. Hack desires to
establish has been in existence for a sufficient time
to show its stability, then japanese laborers who
would he useful on plantations, ir l. ines, or in
other pursuits, might follow. Mr.. Hacks scheme
is che of the most sensible Of any that have been
proposed in connection with oar struggling depen-
donoy, and we hope lie will have every assistance
IN his endeavors TO bring it TO a satisfactory ISSUE