The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1876-04-01
HoxoLrLr. March q. 1876.
HOaOAtLNr NAtNu - A~EV'-
To Hrs ExcELLENcY w. L GREEN, +

Minister for Foreign Affairs. &c, Sc.
SIR:-Oa the occasion of an interview yesterday
at Aliiolani House, between Your Exeellency and
His Excellency the Minister Of Finance on the one
part, and myself aud Mr.. J. c.. Glade, representa-
tive of the House Of Hackfeld s Co, on the other
part, you stated among other particulars, that His
Majesty's Government would pay a per capita bonus
or subsidy in the way of a. assisted passages - to
certain italian coIonists which L propose to bring
into the country, in case the Government should
have n guarantee or assurance that said Colonists
would remain at least twelve months in these islands
therefore l beg that you will give me in writing the
assurance of Government aid under the stipulated
conditions mentioned. SO that l may submit the same
to my countrymen, who desire to make these islands
thar home.
Thave the honor to be Your Excelleney's
Most obedient servant.
NJ. PEccESINL.
Now comes q letter thoroughly characteristic
of our Minister of Foreign Affairs
DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS,
Honolulu, March 18th, 1876.
MELcHIoR PEcCENISI Eso.-SIR The Minister
of Foreign Affairs has received your note of March
oath, and desires me to state, that you have again
misunderstood what was said TO you, and begs to
refer you to Mr.. Glade of Messrs Hackfeld s. Co..
who came with you, and with whom alone this Gov
eminent desires to correspond on this subject, unless
some other equally respectable party resident here
desires to place your views before His Majesty's
Government.
remain sir, your obdt. servt.
WIZ. JARRETT, g.
Secretary Foreign Office.
What a touch of the old hand Who of ns
who signed the memorial will not recognize the
same stern schoolmaster who scolded the naughty
boys that dared sign that paper? No considera-
ton here for the stranger, who very imperiectly
understands our language. No desire to meet In
a friendly way the man who comes forward to aid
in the noble work of repopulation. The tone of
the Minister'S letter is worse than rude-it is
savage-and suggests the question, where can the
man have been brought up? So much for the
ruculence-now for the imbeclity, which equally
characterizes our Foreign Minister. We give the
last (thus far) letter or the series
Honolulu, March ~. 1876.
SIR We beg leave to inform you that we have
received, on Saturday last, a letter from His Excel
lency the Minister of Foreign Affairs, from which
we copy as follows:
with reference to the subject of the interview
on the 23d inst. betwixt your Mr.. Glade and Mr..
Peccenini on the one part and the Minister of Finance
and myself on the other part, l have now to inform
you that IL. Ms. Government have taken the. last
proposition Of Mr.. Peccenini into consideration,
namely, Of bringing ten Italian families from Cal
ifornia, on condition that this Government pay $50
towards the passage of the men and women and
$50 towards the passage of the children; and after
laying the matter before the Board of Immigration
they have decided not to entertain it."
We are dear sir, yours very truly,
III. HACKFELD & Co.
Almost lame and impotent conclusion. Italians
are welcome if they come all the way from Italy,
but if they have got as far on their journey as
California, the government will have nothing to
do with them. We can but conclude that the
Minister is determined to do nothing to repopu-
late the country. We refrain from further COM
ment except this ne-that the Minister shows no
sign of returning from his downward course, but
persists in one that is daily setting him in more
and more direct opposition to the intelligence of
the country. 1t is an interesting experiment how
long a Minister who acts in such a manner can
retain his place.