The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1877-03-10

SIR MoRDAUNT WELLS has recently been en-
gagged in the discussion of the question as to
what is to be done with the Eurasians of India.
By Eurasians we understand those half
castles born in India of Indian mothers, and of
white or European sires. They are now a very
numerous class, and are daily on the increase. In
general they speak English pretty well, and in
many cases they are Christians. The men are
often handsome, and we remember to have seen
some really pretty Eurasian girls in Hindostan.
Sir Mordaunt proposes to establish Eurasian
Agricultural Colonies in the Lower Himalayas /;
but Indian economists object that the native
Indian Rdya (husbandman) can live where an
Eurasian would starve. In point of fact, we
~recollect to have seen at Lalgunj, in Tirhoot, an In
digo factory, (then managed in 1866 by q clansman,
Mr.. McDonald) wherein several hundred Rayas
were employed at the daily wages of one anna--
three pence English money-and for this pittanee
the RayG was obliged to feed, clothe and lodge
himself, and oftentimes a wife and ten or twelve
children For, the Indian women are remarka-
bly, prolific ; they marry at the age of ten or
eleven years, and before they are out of their
'teens'' they often have a family of half a dozen or
half a score of little ones. The Eurasian needs
better food, more clothes, and better lodging
than the RdyG, with whom he can not compete
as a husbandman for this and other reasons.
Now, it occurs to US, as the subject of laborers
at present engrosses the attention of the govern
ment and people of the Hawaiian Kingdom, that
it might be suggested to Sir Mordaunt Wells by
our Minister for Foreign Affairs, with the sane
ton of course of His Majesty's Government, to
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Eurasians on these islands, whose climate ought
to suit them especially, and Where labor is SO
much needed to develop the resources of this
kingdom. AS an instance Of this sort Of trans
migration, we may point to the Volga families of
Russian Professionals, who, being prosecuted by
the intolerant government of their own country
for reading the Bible, were removed lately to
Manitoba, in the Dominion of Canada, by that
liberal government, lad are now doing well. AS
objections might be made to the introduction
into these now Christian islands of heathens
from the East Indies, We think that q select
body of some hundreds of Christians-men,
women and children-might be obtained from
British India, as a beginning of labor importa-
ton and, under the circumstances, considering
the difficulties of providing for these Eurasians in
India, we believe that the Anglo-Indian Govern
ment ought to be very glad to meet with 80
favorable an occasion of disposing of their Eura-
slams, and consequently that the Viceroy ought not
to hesitate to provide them with their passage to
Honolulu at the cost of the British Indian Treas
ury, while it would then be the duty of our
planters to give them employment at once on
arrival. on their plantations. We respectfully
draw the attention of our Minister of Foreign
Affairs to Sir Mordaunt Wells schemes for the
disposal of the Eurasians of British India.