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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1880-06-05
EAST INDIAN IMMIGRATION.

Apropos of the East Indian coolie question, we
print the following from OBER's CAMPS IN THE
CARIBBEEs
EsTO aid the planters in their difficulty, natives
of the East Indies were imported as laborers.
These came out indentured for a term of years,
generally FIVE, TO work at a stated price per day.
The planter is obliged to provide a physician and
to keep a large stock Of drugs constantly at hand.
The cOolie is protected by government to such an
extent that the planter is really the slave of the
laborer. Upon the slightest pretext the coolie
can call his manager before a magistrate. If he
does not choose to work be can remain IN his
house on plea of sickness if the manager or over
seer uses force in trying to make the laborer per-
form his task, he Is at once summoned before the
governor, and imprisoned or fined. For a few
years the coolies worked we'll they are a spright-
ly, intelligent people ard IT the anti-slayery
party, in power in England, had not hedged the
planters about with so many restrictions, pros
perity might have attended their efforts, ruined
estates might have been reclaimed, and these fertile
islands once more have blessed the world with
their products.
"The cOolie, though naturally docile, was in
t~elligent, and saw his opportunity and the
planter now is no better off than when he was
wholly dependent upon negro labor. Wages, to
be sure, are ridiculously low; though the profits
of cane culture do not seem to warrant the pay
ment of much higher rates.
The coolies are even more frugal than the
negroes, and soon acquire money enough to pur-
chase goats and cattle, which they pasture in
some obscure corner Of the estate. Upon the ex-
piration of their indentures they flock at once to
the town, where, like the Portuguese, they set
up small shops-proVing in the end rather a de-
triment to the island than a benefit. Though by
the terms of their contracts they are obliged to
work six days in the week, none of them do, APP
propriating to themselves Saturday as a holiday.
1.-The labor question does not fall within the
Some of this hook. and | fear / have trenched IN
on ground L should not but these remarks were
suggested by seeing my friend of Rutlandpole
irving to persuade his own hired laborers to go
into the field. Even after himself and his over
seer had led the refractory Indian to the field, and
placed a hoe in his hand, he refused to work"
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O THE

The Am sch Bonanza Is at Brewer & Co.'S wharf, load
ing for San Francisco. for which port she viii sale in the
early part Of next week
she has discharged most Of her cargo. She will be laid
on for HOngkOng. China, 20 sail on or about the 10th inst.
The Am sch Alice arrived from Port Townsend on
Thursday last. with a cargo Of lumber which she Is dis
charging at Allen 4 RObinsOn's wharf.
" The Am tern p Jordan Is at the EsplAnAds opposite
the Custom House, discharging q cargo Of lumber
The Am bk II " Amy is lying outside o. the A p JOr-
dan, she will sail for San Francisco the latter part Of
next week
The Am bktne Grace Roberts Is at the foot Of Fort
street loading for San Francisco. for which port she will
sail the latter part Of next week.
The Am bgtne Hazard Is At the P NJ S s Cos dock load
ing for san Francisco to sail on Monday.
The Am bktns Eureka Is also at the p VI s 5 Cos dock
loading for San Francisco. 20 sail about Wednesday next.
The Am Yacht Caseo, owned by DR. Merritt Of Oakland,
Gala, arri we'd last Saturday from San Francisco. via Hilo.
at which poz she arrived after a passage Of Il days. She
N q nne looking craft. and looks as II she might sail If
she had the chance. From here she will sail for n cruise
% the South Sea Islands. She f. commanded by Capt
coleord. formerly Of the Morning Star.
The P n 8 City Of Sydney Will be due from Sydney,
en- route TO San Francisco. on Monday next /.
The Lady Lampson and American Girl may be looked
for from San francisco at any hour, one Of them will
probably have the q s mail.
7 The Am bk Wilton is now 13G days out from New York
and ought to arrive at any hour.
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Is Leprosy Contagious?

With regard to this oft mooted question, we
reproduce the following as bearing particularly
upon the subject, and the facts the result of ex-
tended observations by a competent medical ex-
aminer, DIR. FIR. Eklund, of the Royal Navy of
Sweden, who says, in a monograph recently pub
lished at Stockholm, that leprosy is so contagious
that strict measures should be taken to prevent
its spread, the only means of doing which consists
in completely isolating those afflicted for the re-
mainder of life. He visited Norway during the
Summer of 1873, and spent several months in the
worst afflicted districts and at the five leper asy-
lums, for the purpose of studying the nature of
this disease. Although he does not positively
deny that the disease may occasionally be inner
tied, yet he believes that it's chief mode of propa-
CATION is by contagion, in proof of which he ad-
duces the following facts:
1. In only a small proportion of the cases whose
history he was able to learn had leprosy existed in
either of the parents or grandparents.
2. In almost every case it was found that the pa
tient had either slept in the same bed, eaten from
the same dish, or made use of the same towel with
lepers for a longer period, and within from one to
eight years prior to the disease showing itself.
3. Among thirty. four lepers he found ten to be
parents of thirty-three healthy children, several of
whom had reached adult life without developing any
symptoms of the disease.
4. The microscope discloses the presence in the
blood and in all the secretions of certain specific bac-
terra which thus may be easily communicated to
others.
The author estimates the number of lepers in
Norway at the present time to be about 1000;
this number he found, from the Government sta
%tistics, to be constantly decreasing.
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1
The Society has since it was organized, relieved rs per-
sons and 8 families; 20 of the number we have cared for
curing their sickness and buried at the expense of the
Society.
We have lost by death during the year two Life Men,
bers' Mr.. Alfred Houlder and Mr.. VIM. Brash. Two
yearly subscribers, Mr.. OHalIoran and Mr.. Bird.
The total receipts for the year have been eight hundred
and Lightweight and ~eighty-hve cents, and the disburse-
ments for the same time, one thousand and eighty-two
and twenty-five cents, one hundred and NINETY three and
sixty cents more than We have received.
OF the fourteen persons we have relieved during the
past year, four are dead, four are off our hands and six
are still getting relief from the Society to the amount of
twenty dollars and fifty cents per week, amounting to
one thousand and sixty-six dollars per year, the sum as
you Will perceive far beyond our present means.
On May Path, 1877, there was a balance on hand of one
thousand and ifty-eight and two cents. 1t has been re.
duced year byyear till now we have only two hundred
and t~hirty-nire and forty-two cents, which will only
meet the demand on the Society at the present rate for
twelve weeks. Respectfully submitted,
4. S. CLEGHoRN, Treasurer.
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Commercial Abbertlser
SATURDAY, JUNE 5.

In regard TO the question of subsidies for steam
ship lines, we have only to repeat what we have
frequently said in these columns-we are distinct
Iy opposed to them, unless for domestic lines.
This mail government cannot by its moiety bene-
ft the p. NJ. Co., or any other foreign
steamship line, while it impOverishes itself. II
we want to subsidise any steam lines. let them be
our own. As Mr.. Webb said to us some years
since, while improvising the first line of steamers
between California and the Australian Colonies
Steamships will go where it pays them to CO..
So il pays the p. N. boats to come here, and it Is
folly for US to go on and pay them for that for
which they are already amply paid. Better sub
sidIse, Messrs. Legislators, if you are going to
subsidies any steamers, the Likehke. the hiIaHed,
Hon, the Jas Make, &c.
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Tx FORMER years we have often had occasion to
notice the perfunctory way in which Legislative
Committees have performed the duties assigned to
them, sighting or slurring over important details
of public affairs. In striking contrast to the
old regime in this particular. we have at the pre-
sent session a most thorough and exhaustive
general report from the on Finance a
printed pamphlet, which with the enclosures
numbers 80 pages. The committee, it will be
remembered, consists Of the Hon. W Nj. Gibson,
"A Chairman, and the Hon. Messrs. DOwsett,
Woods. Parker and Beckley-two from the
Mobiles, and three from the Representatives.
The Committee have done their work IN a most
thorough manner, examining carefully into every
item of the public expenditure during the past
two wears. The report is therefore an extremely
interesting one for the general public and the
country at large, as ahOrdiDg particulars of the
manaoement Of the finances of the country not to
he obtained nor expected in Ministerial Reports.
The committee say that ''the order of the several
dsu.rtments, especially the Interior Department,
il highly commendable;" yet they intimate that
NOT a little of Ministerial action during the past
two wears is open to censure, as not having been
n-sv;ousIv authorized by the Legislature The
n,;nc;nIe-vhich is a sound one-is strongly IN
.;.tsd On. that no disposition Of the public funds
can he made without the authorization OF law
The loan by the Treasury to the bank oil bisnop
4 ~ If the sum of $3.50, 900 IN October last, Is
1omewhat sharply, and justly criticised We do
not Of course, nor does the committee intimate
that the bank Is unsafe or unsound, but the pre-
ceIent il not q sound one.
EVERY possible subject is enquired into and full.
4, suc;5ated: Roads and Bridges; Board OF
Health. Government Survey; Fire Department:
Water Works; Anchors, buoys and landings;
ksw palace: Preliminary railroad survey on Ha-
v.;;. Prisons and Prisoners; immigration;
- E..ablisbment; Artesian Wells; &c. &c.
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crushing out the frequent attempts made to repeal
the existing statute of prohibition against bis
countrymen, he cannot refuse to examine into
and stay if possible an influence that has practi-
cally rendered null and void the very law he would
seemingly so strenuously support.
Not unreasonable objections to the existing
prObibitory law have been found in the Unequal
ity Of its application, and the partiality of its
enforcement. The Hawaiian can object, in the
first place, that he is denied the exercise of his
v%olitiOn in a case where it is freely accorded to
aliens, beneath him in education and morals {;
and, that persons who are Enthusiastically subject to
its provisions, in certain cases, are relieved there
from. Such are naturalized subjects, or the Ha-
waiian-born offspring of foreign parents. These
are excused by preference alone. Until a less
partial rendering of the law than that accepted
BY the Executive, releasing persons who are, 81 to
all intents and perposes, natives of the King
dom, - be adopted and, until prohibition be ex-
tended also to subjects of other nationalities, not
In treaty with this Kingdom, there will exist
among Hawaiians that feeling of injury, the
common sentiment of reasoning beings every
where, consequent upon laws palpably partial in
themselves and in the manner of their enforce
meut. IN proportion 10 the enlightenment OF q
people will this sentiment be intense, and as the
natives are continually improving, no abatement
of it can be expected among them. These OBJ
%JectlOns, we are persuaded, are what actuate the
continually recurring attempts to repeal made
in the Legislature, more than any innate desire
Of the Hawaiian for means to glut an appetite for
liquor.
Whatever may be the result of the agitation of
this question at its present session, the Legisla-
ture will have failed in the performance of a
grave duty if it does less than include the Chinese
in the prohibition, now only imposed upon the
Hawaiian. Failing this an entire abrogation of
the existing law would be f~ruitless of evil, and
more consistent under the circumstances, as from
these aliens the means of supply to the native are
ready, exhaustless and universal. If class laws
have been necessary in the past to protect him
from himself, they are now necessary to protect
him from the Chinese-in this particular at least.
But the time is not distant when the encroach-
ments of this peculiar people, if allowed to go I'M
checked, in other matters as well, will 80 under
mine the fabric of our existing institutions that
the very form of Government may be made to
totter.
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Thirty EIGHT YEARS II HONoLULU.-Rev. S. c.
Damon aud wife, OF Honolulu, are registered at
the American House. Mr.. Damon went to Homo
Iulu in 1912. under the auspices of the New York
American Seaman's Friend Society. to labor among
Americans. With the exception OF one or two Wis
its to the United States. he has lived in Honolulu
tbirty-eight years. General Comfy is a near
neirbbor. Mr.. Damon states that Mrs. Comfy has
regained her health, and that the family enjoy the
climate and surroundings very much.
The predominatiDg foreign element is American.
Legislation and political machinery are moulded
very much after the America form. Native and
foreign born citizens participate in public affairs.
They have but one House in the legislative body.
Mr.. Damon and wife made the distance between
Honolulu and Columbus in 6fteen travelling days.
His communication of improved facilities for travel
was very hattering to those engaged in transport
ing the public.
Mr.. Damon will leave the city to- morrow for
Philadelphia, and will go from thence to Europe
to zpend the summer with his son. who is in the
University Of Berlin, and Secretary of the Hawaii
an Legation. DR.. Scott, OF the legislature, Mr..
Francisco and others received c Is from Mr., Da-
mon and returned the ssme.-CdE bus, Ohio, Dis
patch, March lG.
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mNE 4 1ssn


Business has been rather dull during the past week II
commercial circles. only two arrivals. A P. JordOn and
Alice. laden with lumber. and one departure, the W. II
Meyer with a cargo Of sugar. The total imports amount
Ing TO about s9.Ooo while the exports figure up sJI .i62-
leaving the balance again in our favor. In business cir.
clss the same dizziness Is visabIs, the market being well
stocked with All kinds Of goods, except Lumber and Rice,
and Large buyers scarce Exchange Is scarce and one
house In town has been offered a. high as two per cent
for the accommodation without accepting.
The principal events Of the week have been the pur.
chase Of the land and leases formerly owned by the Kaa-
laea Plantation for the sum Of s52OOO by . Chinese firm,
Loo NgEvk & Chung Wa & Co, who intend. after the
crop Of cane has been taken OF By the Plantation Com
pany, 10 convent the land 10 the cultivation Of rice.
Large sales Of horses mules and cattle, bringing fair
prices, have also taken place.
In this connection mention might be made that during
the past month nearly $4,000 have been paid for mules
alone The amount Of sugar forwarded by the W Meyer
WA s23 100 lbs, and the receipts for the week were TO-
900 packages Of sugar and rs kegs moIasses. The City
OF Sydney, from the south. Is due on Monday
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SANITARY Instructions TOR HAwAHASs. In
the HalS1iaH and English languages This is
the title Of a very exhaustive work on sanitary
matters, lately issued from the press Of j. IL.
Black, of this city. 1t is the result Of the labors
of the Hon. W. NJ. Gibson. the member for La
haina, undertaken under a resolution Of the Leg
i~slature Of 1873, by which himself, the Hon. W.
r. Castle, and His Elk. the Minister Of Foreign
Affairs were appointed a special ommitte to at
tend to that duty. Mr.. Gibson, however, in his
unmistakable zeal for the welfare of the Hawai-
ians. has shOuIdered, not only all the work but
all the responsibility Of the book, and whatever
credit there Is must belong to him. This last is
by no means inconsiderable, as a cursory review
by any unprejudiced critic will show. The '.in-
struction'' will be found to be valuable to not
only natives, but a great many foreigners as well,
especially we may note those in regard to "Nurs-
ing the sick, on PIP SO and 80; THE care of
children'-pp l03 to los; Common Remedies
PIP ia to l22, &c. There are many other re-
markable points in this elaborate work which we
have not space to-day to point out, but hope to
be able to do 90 at some future time. In the
meantime we its careful perusal by
the impartialreader, forit contains much on SAM
tary matters that everybody does not know, but
that is valuable to be known and constantly kept
in mind. Especially would we call attention to
the chapter entitled ''Outdoor Cleanliness, "a
subject upon which this journal has harped for
years-touching upon the question of privies.
Read it and ponder thereon. We trust the Legis-
lature now in session may take some action in the
matter, or otherwise an epidemic may be expect
ed this summer, such as Honolulu never saw be-
fore
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,tal number Of deatbs reportsd Ia. a. folloxs

Number reported as unattended, %.
-FOUR oil the number died within As hours after
arrival from the other islands.
Number reported in Nav last wear. Sc
L remain your ExcellenCy's obedient servant.
JOHN II. BRowN,
agent Board of Health.
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Mortality Report.
HrArrH orrrcE Mar 81. lsso.

His Exeellency SAX'L G.. WILDER
President Board Of Health.
SRI am able to report tie month now clos
ing as having been healthy. The sanitary condi
ton OF the town has been steadily improving sisce
the month Of December last, and the number OF
deaths reported are less than for eighteen months
past, except July, 1879.
The Chinese laundries are increasing steadily
and now Imber eighteen within the town proper
located in nearly every street. The way in which
the waste water is disposed of is so well under
stood, comment from me is unnecessary. Fifteen
old vaults have been closed and seventeen new
ones constructed.
Total number of daaths rsnnrtaa a m-
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An expert" was employed by the committee
to examine into the items of different expendi-
lures, whose formidable array of figures and par
ticulars Of explanation occupy no less than Is
pages out Of the % Of the pamphlet. The report,
As we said before. Is a very valuable one through
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Vessel. for HoaoIuIu from Foreign Per

Vessels for HonoIuIu from Foreign Ports
Am bk 7 ? Wilton, New York. due
Brit ship City Of Madrid, Liverpool, July is
Brit ship City Of Nankfn, Glasgow. due Aug $40
An sch Chus Spreekies, San Francisco, for Kahului, arrived
al Kahnlui May %.
p 81 SIS City o~fSydneJ, Sydney, due June
p d 3 : ZeaIandia San Francisco, due June 12-l4
Am sch American Girl San Francisco, due June Is
Brit bk Lady Lampson, San Francisco, due June is
Am bktne Emma Augusta, Utsalady, due June 16
Am sem Gussie TelAir, san francisco, due June is
Ger bgtne Nicolas, Jaluit, due
An bk Rainier, Port GAMBLE
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NOTICE.

a LII PERSONS ARE r FORBIDDEN
N from trusting my wife, EKEKELA GOLDSTEIN, she
having left M bed and board without cause. l will not be
responsible foi any debts she may contract from this date.
J. GULDSTEIN,
HIlo, May sSth, 1880. jus st
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NOTICE.

MONTHLY EXITING
II of the honolulu Library and Reading Room Association
will take place at the Associations Rooms THIS SATURDAY
EVENING ii 1880 O'Clock. A full attendance is desired.
1t H.. A. Sec'y.
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NOTICE
HONOLULU, June Sd, 1880.

HONOLULU, June Sd, 1880.
TWNHOSE w HO MAY HAVE MONEY ON
IL deposit with US on the LIST day of July next. either in
Savings Bank Or on open account, are hereby notified that
they are expected to make their own returns for the same to
the Assessor in 1leir re spective District.
We are required by the Minister Of Finance to furnish to the
Assessor a list Of depostors with the amount of their balance
in our hands on the first day Of July
jus At BISHOP & co.
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Assignees' Notice.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT
IN the undersigned have been duly elected Assignees Of the
Estate of WIN. JOHNSON, a bankrupt, and all persons in.
debted to the said VIM. johnson previous to the 18th day of
March, 1880, are requested to make immediate payment of
such Indebtedness to II. W. at the office Of
Messrs. II. Hackfeld & Co., Queen street, Honolulu
THEO. Il. DAVIES,
II. w. HMID
Assignees of Estate of VIM. johnson, a Bankrupt.
Dated, May %, 1880 my29 It
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

NJ is HEREBY GIVEN THAT
~ the undersigned has been appointed Executor of the
last will and Testament of KAILIWELA, deceased, and all
persons having claims against the said Estate, whether Sc
cured by mortgage or otherwise, are hereby notified to pre-
sent them, duly authenticated, within five months from the
date hereof, or they will be forever barred. And all persons
indebted to the said Estate are hereby notified to make i'm
mediate payment thereof.
CECIL BROWN.
Executor of the last Will and Testament of Kailiwela, decd.
Dated at Honolulu, May %, 1850. my2e 1t
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For SALE OR TO LETT
"HAT VERY DESIRABLE RESI-

VERY DESIRABLE RESIDENCE
II on Judd Street, adjoining the spacious premises OF the
Hon. :. q. Wilder. The lot Contains about one acre, with a
large frontage on Judd Street. and is well planted with Fruit
and Ornamental Shade Trees. SEA VIEW, UNSURPASSED
Government water is about to be laid on. There Is on the lot
a dwelling house, containing sitting room, dining room and four
bedrooms; a two story kitchen, with servants rooms sboyei
bath house, carriage house and other out-houses Also, a
stream Of water running through the lot. Title perfect. For
particulars, apply to CECIL BROWN,
mys Eaahumsnu Street.
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Fifteenth Annual Report of the British
Benevolent Society.

Since the organization of the Society in 1864, there has
been received ten Thousand six hundred and thirty-one
dollars and 65 cents, s1O,631.65 Amount distributed for
relief ten THOUSAND two hundred and twenty-seven dol
lars and 10 cents, $40, 227. 79). Amount paid for small ex-
penses, one hundred and sixty-four dollars and A cents.
(Sl644f). Balance on hand two hundred and thirty-nine
dollars and AZ certs, S239.42l. OF the receipts nineteen
made up outside Of the yearly subscriptions.