The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1880-09-11
Asst INDIAN LABOR.

The following copies of the petitions on the
above subject. which bear the signatures OF 90
many of. our principal planters and ieiio"
citizens. are published with the vie" OF again
awakening attention to this important and un-
wisely neglected matter -
To His Majesty Kalakaua and Cabinet:
sThe petition OF the undersigned hum6iy shows
that the demand for laborers in your MaJestys
dominions is still unsupplied. planters ana others
recurring labor which they cannot obtain except
at exOrbitant rates.
That. thankful for exertlons maze oy your
Maiesty's Government to bring people from the
Sontb Pacific your petitioners cannot conceal
from themselves the fact that, should the effort to
introduce these islanders prove unsuccessful With
ont means of procuring an alternative supply, the
business of the country would De paralyzed by
the failure of agricultural enterprises.
THAT your petitioners have information
leading them to believe that laborers In larger
numbers than they are likely to require can be
obtained from India on terms far more advan-
tageous to Hawaiian employers than those attend
ing the hire of any other people, Southern Islanders
excepted, the cost of whose services and those nf
East Indians, your petitioners believe, will not
greatly differ.
Yonr petitioners therefore humbly pray that,
as a precautionary measure, your Majesty will take
such steps as may be necessary to secure the intro
duction OF people from British India. even if to no
greater extent in the first place than three hun
dred or four hundred souls.
And your petitioners will ever pray.
NJ Phillips & Co, B F Dillingham;, Otto Friedlander. +
Horn, II s Tregloan; Charles Fischel, A Mellis, Geo 2 Wells,
E A Williams, s Magnin, A A Montana, A L Smith, W L
Foster, Thos Lack, s Roth, George Lucas, Christian Gertz, &
Hofschlager & Co, Godfrey Rhodes, Il A Widemann, II
Hackfeld & Co, VIM G Irwin & Co. Theo H Daveis, e p
Adams per W W, ? Milton, g w Macfarlane & Go, Allen 4
Robinson, A Cleghorn L Go, A M:Kibbin, a W Pierce, D
Peterson, NJ MInerny, Robert Levers, q Z MIntyre, A W
Bush, BE Ehlers & Co, NJ Dickson, Grant B. Robertson, p
M'Inerny, Allen Herbert, A W Richardson & CO. y DoWse.t,
] Weik, Thos g Thrum, ] H Black. H e whitney, J d
wicke, Charles Young, ] n Lovejoy, William johnson, ]
Lazarus, ] Mott 4 Co, Max Eckart, Robert Stirling, Macfar-
lane & Co. VIM seaborn Luce, Gideon West per A, II J
Agnew, A N Mossman, s Gurlish, II r HOLSTER, E @ MtCand-
less, Robt W Andrews, Edward Hutton, J G Wood, H J holte,
l. Way, A Unna, II l. Sheldon, T A Dudoit, Love & Brother,
John Tibbetts, A Jaeger, Brown Il Co, Chas Brenig, L W
Hopp, Thomas Morris, 81 G Inset, P Dalton, " Fenneil. II
Southworth, Frank II Robertson, James Bonythorn, Jonas
Jansen, Stewart Blame, Ludewig Toennies, P n Lynch,
John Neil, P q Trip, e N Hammer, John Mills. J Messiter,
T W Fleming, o g Clifford, F T Lenehan, J Il Bruins, sen J
T Chayter, Charles I Gulck, Leon Dejean, John " Croweil,
c Gertz, jun, A Strehl, Lorenzo Marchant, I R Foster, G
Segelken, ID W Clark, J FL Wicke, 2 Gertz, A Kraft, J II
Bruins, jun, VIM. Wagner, John GetEs. Henry J Ives, @
Walker, D N FItner, z spencer. Robert Gray, E Silva Cunhs,
James Odds per . B, Frank O'Brien, Stewart Macaulay, e @
Winstan, james DOdd.
NoTE.-The petition was handed to the late Minister Of The
Interior goth September last year.