The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1877-12-08

OUR NExT-DooR ~neighbor in his last issue, in
dulges in a sneer at the interesting eannibals,"
whom the Hawaiian governments agent, Captain
Mist, has SO expeditiously arranged at the Fijis to
have conveyed TO this port in a vessel chartered for
that end, and sent in quest of them to several
Pacific Islands where they are likely to be obtained
so that they may be expected to arrive here
shortly. The scheme Of importing time expired
South Sea Islanders was first started by the ADVER-
TIsER some months ago, when the planters
were crying out on all sides for plantation
hands, at the suggestion of a gentleman here
we'll informed on such matters. Our enter
prising Minister of the Interior lost no time in
sending off an efficient agent to the Fijis. via New
Zealand and Sydney, on this business and in a re-
markedly short time. the result is as we have stated
the South Sea Islanders, if procurable, will soon
be on their way to our shores.
1t is singular that those Kingsmill Island women,
Of whose involuntary travels we published q narra-
tive in our last issue, we're brought on, We are in
formed, to their native island, on board the vessel
which was chartered at Sydney by Captain Mist, to
convey thence the South Sea Islanders to this port.
The treatment of those South Sea Island women by
the whites may have effect in inducing other South
Sea Island women to emigrate amongst whites, and
possibly may have some Influence on our own para
mount question-the introduction Of women into
these islands.
This leads US to say something more about the
&c Maori scheme" The Gazette teens with attacks
upon the poor Maoris of New Zealand, accusing the
men of laziness and crying down the Maori race gen.
orally. Now, it seems to us that what people want
ed most here were women, or married men with their
wives and familiea,-at least, SO We understood the
oooa Uhap ~ occurred IN N a IN auUopst that some
married Maoris with their wives and families might
be glad to come here. Without admitting that the
Maori men are lazier than numbers of whites, who
never do q days work in all their life, we think
that the advantage Of securing for these islands mar
ried men with their wives and children, some of the
latter young girls, might very well compensate for a
lack of extraordinary habits of industry on the part
of the father Of the family. When we say this, we
by no means admit that the Christian, civilized, set
tied and married Maori men are one whit more lazy
than ga Ten Years Resident who attacks the
Door Maoris in the last Gazette. He says himself
that he was glad to earn his living as q " heelwright
amongst the Maori Kingites in the Waikato country
Thus he gives the lie to his own SANDERS. without
seeing it, as his own statement proves how far the
Maoris we're advanced in industrial pursuits. His
talk about slaves-Tourikarika--is all nonsense.
There are NO slaves in any land under the British
flag. However, the question is now go far advanced
that by the last mail we are authoritatively informed
that . : there will be no trouble about getting married
Maoris with families to go to the Sandwich Island"
They can be got from Whsngarei and the Bay of Isl
ands districts. All these ~emigrants would be Chris
tians. So far advanced are the Maori people of the
Bay Of Islands that they are going to publish a Maori
newspaper at Whangarei, which We hope to gee ere
long in this Office. We think that it will be q very
happy and promising day for Hawaii mel. wherein .
batch of say fifty married couples Of MaOris, with
their children, shall arrive at these fast becoming
desoIate shores. In 1900 there were $4,000 native
aboriginals on the Island Of Tasmania. Last year
we had occasion TO chronicle the death of the last
aboriginal of Van Dieman's Land, as that island was
first named. 1t is with the rising generation Of Ha-
waiian aboriginals that the attempt must be made to
regenerate the race by intermarriage with kindred
stocks. Otherwise the fate of the Hawaiian race will
be similar to that of the Tasmanian aboriginals, in
all likelihood. The want of women here is becoming
daily more glaring. We have suggested places
where women may be got to emigrate to these well
nigh desolate shores. We have pointed to the Maoris
and the Guaranis, and We may indicate native races
of the East Indies, such as the Tagalese; bat it would
seem that any proposal to make up for the deficiency
of women in this country only calls forth the sneers
of Anticipated writers and the false-speaking mouth