Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1880-11-13

niYcd, paid agents In the different Pfcsidoncca
Of India. The coolica ara bound for five years
labor and subsequent other five years to-
sldonco, free except "a to leaving tho Colony
NJ the end of the ten yenre very low care to
return TO their long foguttcn homes. The
agents, who are stationed mostly in OF about
Calcutta and Madras, have their auh-ngcnta
aud dopots always available. aud frequently
the samc agent acts Tor two or moru Colonies.
Therefore II our Board were to cndcavor to en-
list lahorera, most probably the agent for FIJI
or Queensland would be permitted by his EN-
ployors to act ior VA also aud therefore We
should hc saved the coat of special agent, but
merely bc called on 10 pay proportion Of the
expenses, tho auh-ngcnts OF recruiting officers
dopots &o, being all ready II; hand. No per
qutsitcs or commissions arc allowed every
cmgrant ship must carry "a surgeon, but
neither tho ship nor the surgeon are allowed
any pay for passengers who may die ON the
way, but only for those landed at the port of
dcharkation Mr.. Arundel estimates the cost
oi landing coolies Mt Fiji NJ about F27 per head.
OF this, in the case OF British Colonies, ono
third is paid by the Government, say 60: the
remaining Els is paid by the employer in il
sallmcnts spread over the five years of IL
dcnturcd labor. Mr. Arundel considers his
estimate of E27 as rsR outside he marx, and
it includes all expenses incurred.
Under the headings of Agency in Calcutta,
Cost OF Depot and Recruiting, Passage Money,
Medical Officer, Druggist, and interpreters,
with their return passage To India, and tho re-
turn passage of Coolies, the expenses are
rcokoncd at E23 l6, say Sl2O per head but
this is exclusive of agents salary in India,
depot expenses in Colony and interest on money
advanced. These bring the total expense as
we said to f27-$i35 per head The depot
expenses here would be very small and have
hitherto been paid down by tho employer in a
lump SUN with the other charges incurred by
the Board "The question of return passages
~ great point with the Indian government, /,
and they must be well satisfied as to the
"good rain and shbiiity of The gore,ap,ent
making the agreement to that effect" These
words are of the utmost importance, as inti-
mating that the Indian government, once salts
fled as to the good faith and stability of the
government it is dealing with, leaves the mat
ter thence forward in the hands of the latter
IL IL sulu IilaI certain clauses III the COnStIt-
tion of this Kingdom preclude the possibility
of opening negotiations with the British gov
ernInent on this subject. If it be so, then the
most earnest attention of our most able states
men should he turned in tn direction and en-
deavors made to clear away any obstacles.
We are firmly convinced that competition, not
OF Chinese against Chinese, but of other races,
is the one thing needed to pull us through our
labor difficulties
The Europeans who are to be brought here
are very good in their way, but we doubt il
they can compete with the Chinese in n tropical
cane field. The Portuguese from Madeira and
the Western Islands have so far gone into lit
tie business of their own, and are at all events
an insufficient offset in the face of the Chinese
immigration accomplished and in prospect
| AT all c,ents let no stone be left unturned
until these islands show fair prospect of be.
ing re-peopled and industry is no longer be
heavily burdcned by high wages as is the case
ut present.
The average freight 10 FIJI is about El2 10
Trinidad only pays El0 because a freight
home is generally available. The surgeons re-
ceive from 10 to 8 slilings Il head