The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1881-12-28
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER as, 1881.
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ont of the womb of time The last issue
of 1880. before we took up the editorial
pen. contained graceful little New Years
article, in which it was said that when
the wear had deposited its large burdens
at the doors of the great nations, 1t found
| a small, male entwined, sweet scented
packet for little Hawaii-the fortune OF
the coming year. The packet has been
! now unrolled. its inmost secrets are patent
| to all. What did that packet bring? 1t
| brought long journey to the King, dur
| ing which he has seen much, has become
! acquainted with many of the potentates
! of the earth, and has no doubt learned
many valuable lessons,
| During His Majesty's absence, His sister,
! the Princess Liliuokalani, ably attended
I to public affairs, showing herself capable
\ of handling and understanding the ques-
/ tions of importance as they came along,
/ and displaying at times vigorous will.
/ The death Of Mr.. Chief Justice Harris
| on July I'd removed strong and able
| man, who had served the country well for
many years, and whose loss will long be
/ felt by those who we're accustomed to de-
pend upon him for advice-and they were
X MANY. After the return Of the King, the
Hon. A. F. Judd was appointed to fill the
vacancy, an appointment which has been
received with general satisfaction.
/ The male packet has brought us
no veritable solution of our labor and
| population dificulties-it has brought us
| large quantities of Chinese, a matter which
has been lengthily discussed in these
columns. The difficulties arising from
the presence of large number of this
I class of persons are still before us, and
will no doubt occupy the minds OF most
! of our thinkers for some time to come.
Laborers have been introduced from
other countries as well: the Portuguese
! Islands of the Atlantic have added a
| healthy and desirable class to our popula-
! ton, which it is the intention of the pres
ent administration to draw still more
largely from during the coming year, and
Mr.. Carter has been sent to conclude a
treaty which will give greater facilities for
their import. Two ship loads of immi-
grants have been received from Norway;
these gave satisfaction at first, but are not
now regarded as desirable immigrants.
The Pomdre brought us number of
Papuan laborers who are well thought of
by those who have employed them. On
the return of Mr.. Armstrong, who accom-
panied the King on his tour round the
world, a report was published, speaking
adversely to the introduction of the Hindu
Coolie; and the question will no doubt
be discussed until the meeting of the
Legislature.
The blackest fold of all that New Years
package was the small pox, which dread
disease carried of between two and three
hundred victims in spite of all that could
be done against it. Of the great lava
flow, we had had a premonition, Madame
Pele had, as it were, left her card upon us
late last year, but she had not informed
US how long she was going to stay-it was
not till August last that she finally took
leave of us; not until she had very
thoroughly frightened the citizens of Hilo
and the vicinity, and made every one very
anxious, in fact, we came down to the
point of almost quarreling with the old
lady. Mr.. Sterling visited the flow with a
view to seeing where was the best place to
give her good blowing up with dy-
namite).
The next unpleasant thing has been the
attacks from portion Of the San Francisco
press, attacks which have been freely copied
by papers further east, and which are
gradually worming their way to Europe.
The first of these appeared toward the latter
end of June; they were then laid aside
for time, but came on in full swing in
October, and are now still being directed
against us, with every likelihood of con-
tinuance for some time to come. The at
tacks have been met and answered by the
press here, but the authors of the attacks
have not cared for facts, their sole object
hos haoD IN vrOrl- r1v, ~, ovnifoYnapf ap1 II
possible to make few dollars out Ct the
matter in the latter expectation, they
have, up to the present, signally failed.
The attack has brought prominently before
the public the necessity of Planters
Association, and this movement has been
frequently urged in these columns; up to
the present, the planters have not stirred
much upon the subject beyond one letter
written by an important and wealthy Maui
planter, which appeared June 18th, strong
ly urging such an organization, and sug-
gesting October or November as suitable
months to meet.
The subject of Leprosy has been brought
prominently before the public. The ne
cessity of segregation of lepers was urged
in these columns in January, and the
matter was again taken up in August and
September, when a series of articles ap-
peared on the subject About the middle
of September the authorities began col
lecting a number Of these people a
hospital has been erected at Fisherman's
Point, where lepers may stay for while
before being finally sent to Molokai. This
hospital is now open and appears to be
popular; but only time can tell what per-
manent good it will do
During February and March the GA
zETTE devoted considerable space to the
matter of inquests, which did not appear
to be properly attended to- The articles
We're called forth after the death of Louis
Young; man who was found injured on
a side walk, he died, and no post morten
was made on the body. If in nothing
else at least in this our efforts were sue
cessful, and inquests are now at once held
upon all sudden or suspicious deaths
Here We feel that good has been done.
Crimes of violence have increased con-
siderably during the year; we have had
the unpleasant duty of recording several
murders and homicides. Two of these, by
Chinese have been especially significant,
showing for how slight a cause these
people will resort to violence-in these two |
cases the crimes were committed because
small sums of money could not be collected
by the creditors.
During August and September there
was great religious revival among large |
section of our population. Mr.. Hallen- |
beck, a revivalist, who had worked with |
Messrs Moody and Sanky having been in
vited to come down. The movement has
resulted IN permanent good to many.
The Arrangements for the entry of Ha-
wall into the Universal Postal Union have
been completed and it will be a source of
great satisfaction when our first mail Will