The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1881-11-26

East Coast.w " hear that there Is less drunken
ness. The deaths among the adults are chiefly
from colds, leading TO and among
children from want Of suitable care and nouriSh-
ment. Among the Ngaiterangi there l. an IL
creased percentage Of births. But the Jrweras
are the only tribe in which the children are as
numerous as the adults-attrIbuted 70 the re-
moteness Of their countryaud the difficulty Of
r~esOrting to the townships to get drlnk Atten-
ton has been often drawn TO the vllalnoUs
quality Of the liquor supplied to the natives.
The foregoing are some Of the districts from
which the more favorable accounts come. From
others they are Of an opposite character.
Among the WangauUi natives few children are
born, and many Of these die at one or two
years old. Tn adults are to children as four 70
one, and the naiiUs mode Of doctOTiHg contributes
to the mortality"
These remarks aIe founded on reports
from government officials in native dis
tricts laid before the New Zealand Parlia-
ment. In a short compass they repeat
in regard to the Maori much of THAT we
have urged as to the causes of decline in
the numbers of the Hawaiian race, and
what remedies are needed. Ignorance,
and the violation of sanitary laws " have
to be combatted here as there. Instruction
and an enlightened administration of
wholesome sanitary regulations are the
only weapons with which we can pursue
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we find among our own native people the
same causes of death are common, intem-
Perance, colds, and 1.-the native mode of
doctoriHg " among the adults, neglect and
want of suitable nourishment among chill
dren. AS careless and unthrifty habits"
are so often the origin of disease that carries
offthe adult, and gre always the accompani-
ments of that neglect of offspring which is
Al, .a,,1 ,nf Tho rfffFpl mortality apnpppSt
the young, it is going to the root of the
matter when we try to redeem the natives
from their sloth, and teach them to be
thrifty and to take care of themselves.
Hence the H~okianga Magistrates sugges-
ton about ~apprenticing the native lads to
various trades is not out of place in an
article whose theme is the health and COM
parative mortality of the people. How
closely it corresponds with thep proposals fol
a course of technical education fol
Hawaiians which we have so often put for
ward and advocated, we need not point out,
The moral we desire to draw from this
scrap of the contemporary history of a race
closely allied to the Hawaiian is a hopeful.
one. If in New Zealand the decrease O.
native population has thus virtually
ceased, there is no reason in the world why
the same story should not be told of tn,
native race on these islands. The condi
ditions here are in many respects mucl
more favorable than there-indeed, were i
not for the presence here of so large a hOrd,
of male Chinese we might say that the.
were in all respects so. Moreover thi
Hawaii is an independent country and j
shall surely not be said that the Government
of a British colony can succeed better thar
we can in tending and caring for the healtl
and the lives of the native people of tn
land.