The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1877-07-21
TIE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser
Y. JULY 2l


We are glad to be able to state that the pros
poets of our labor market and the immigration
question are Frightening, and that there are
good grounds to hope that important additions
to our population may erelong arrive from the
South Sea Islands, and other sources We learn
that government intends to dispatch an Agent,
by the next steamer from San Francisco, to the
Fills, via Auckland, who will be instructed to
confer with the British Governor of the fJls, Sir
Arthur Gordon, on the subject OF the importa-
ton into this country of South Sea Islanders,
with a view to obtain His Excellency's sympathy
and approyaI therefor. He will also be empow-
cred to make the necessary arrangements Tor the
immediate despatch of a first batch OF South
Sea Islanders to this port, if they are to De had
at the Fijis, as it is hoped. 1t may De iouno
necessary to fix upon Auckland as a depot where
these South Sea Islanders can be gathered IN
from the various points, and thence sent on 70
this port by the P. NJ. Company's steamers In
lots of twenty-five or more individuals, Win
their women, if possible, likewise. This matter
is now brought to a very satisfactory stage
through the energy of government. The appoint
mcnt and proximate departure ofthis immigration
Agent, for the Fijis, Will have the result OF
determining the question whether our labor
market can be in part recruited from this source.
We understand that the gentleman appointed
by the Board of immigration to act as its Agent
in this important business, is eminently qualified
for the position, and, as the bearer of Major
Warehouses; letter, he may expect to meet with
a favorable reception from Sir Arthur Gordon.
We congratulate the planters on the high degree
of probability-not to say certainty-of a supply
of labor being shortly obtained from the South
Seas, as a result of the present very satisfactory
and promising arrangements of our government
for that end.
But there is another quarter from which there
is a likelihood that immigrants may be obtained.
This government, We are informed, has lately
received a communication from DIR. VIM. Hille-
brand, long and favorably known as a resident
on these Islands, at present living with his
family on the Portuguese Island of Madeira.
From the tenor of DR.. Hillebrand's letter, it
appears that a number of Portuguese immi-
grants-married men with their wives and chll-
dren, can easily be induced to come and settle
on these Islands, and that the government of
Madira will interpose no serious obstacles to
their emigration. The natives of that island
are q most Industrious and meritorious class of
people, sober, honest and peaceful, the rural
population is trained up to agricultural pursuits,
and it will really be a very great advantage, to
this country-as We have repeatedly urged on
former occasions-to obtain a reinforcement to
its population from the Portuguese inhabitants
of Madeira. But the most important feature OF
this immigration would be the circumstance that
all the immigrants are likely to be married men
- n. II,Iahpanl milo fn khic 1nuornnnank
whose Agent, we believe, he is, that several
families of Madeira Islanders are willing to come
here at once. The mode Of their conveyance
here can readily be arranged by the Board of
immigration, by their entering into agreement
with the agents of some of the ships which periodi-
cally sail from Europe for Honolulu, to call in at
Madeira en- route, for the purpose of shipping
the families which DR.. Hillebrand may here
after engage to proceed to this country az set
tiers. As a section of the population of this
country speaks the Portuguese language, the
new Corners from Madeira will at once feel them
selves quite at home here. On the whole, this
appears to be one of the most promising of the
several schemes of immigration which our active
government has as yet taken in hand to recruit
the fading population of Hawaii mel.
On q previous OccdslOn, we nave GlluQeQ TO
a locality ON the Island of Kauai known as the
land of Mana, which is of considerable extent
and fertility, but without running water. This
land, we have believed, might be made highly
profitable, in an agricultural point of view, by
obtaining a sufficient water supply from the
Waimea River, by means of canalization. We
now hear that a hydraulic work of this nature
is contemplated by an old settler on Kauai, MIR.
Valdemar Knudsen, a native of the land of Tycho
Brahe and Canute the Great. The undertaking
is a grand one, and will cost a large sum of money,
but it is believed that the results will be suff-
GENTLY by profitable to amply warrant the expense.
Mr.. Knudsen we learn intends to submit to the
Board of immigration a proposal for the in
PRODUCTION of a certain number of families Of
&" Mortimer of the old Scandinavian stock
at least ten or twelve married couples with
their children, for the purpose of settling them
Town on the lands of Mana and Waimea. This
is one more scheme of immigration of very
promising and satisfactory character, which
may come in OPPORTUNITY with others already on
the tapis for the introduction of East Indians,
South Sea Islanders, Madeira islanders, and the
ubiquitous Chinese. The Mortimer" ara
q hardy laborious race, and the advent to
Hawaii nei of any number of families from old
Scandinavia, with their pretty blue-eyed, faxen-
haired Morse maidens, should be hailed with
extreme satisfaction by the King, the govern
ment, the country at large, and more especially
by the bachelors, old and young of Hawaii nei-
without prejudice to the winning maids of the
Isles
We PROCEED to make some remarks on the