The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1881-06-25

out the archipelago anu were CACAC
or more of cases of smallpox occurring per
week, as was the case u while ago, TINS
community would acquiesce III farther
sacrifice. But now we think that our city
and island have done their duty to their
neighbors, and the time has come for rellef.
We are, it is true, not absolutely tree from
contagious disease; but it Is altogether III d
comfortable and manageable shape, under
intelligent and well informed SUPERVISION.
1t is not right that Honolulu should be
kept under a constant and close embargo,
because one or two or three smallpox
| cases may occur in a week. BY latest
| foreign news we learn that there were
considerably more than two thousand small
pox cases in the London hospitals at one
time; yet there was no embargo on that
great port and hone on the port ofSan Fran
cisco, although recent cases of small
| pox nave occurred and may be there for
some time to come. The disease has ceased
| to be epidemic with us; it i now on the
| wane; sporadic only in its manifestations;
| and judicious inspection being exercised,
our authorities may now very properly
| permit we'll vaccinated, decently domiciled,
| and thoroughly fumigated parties to get
| permits to go to the other islands.
THE planters of Hawaii are again press
ing upon the Government the desirability
| of taking steps to obtain East India immi-
| grants, in a memorial to His EXcellency the
| Minister of Foreign Relations, which we
subjoin.
The planters complain that South Sea
| Islanders are diseased, that Portuguese
| will not renew Il contract to labor, and that
! the Chinese, though good plantation hands,
| too often run away. 1t is asserted that the
| Hamakua, Hawaii, plantations have lost
| over one hundred Chinese laborers who
| have run away, within the last six months.
| Each of these laborers has cost, on an
/ average, 500 to the planter. 1t costs
| about $50 TO return an absconder to his
| work and not ten per cent. of the run
| Always are discovered and returned. And
| even if q Chinaman does return, he will
| abscond again, and the planter gives up the
| pursuit and pockets the loss, on account of
the difficulties of pursuit, discovery and
| Identification.
1t is difficult to carry out any proper
| police administration in the country dis
| tricts with a class of constables paid S15 a
/ month, or 80 cents a day There should
be a better paid and more efficient police in
L the agricultural districts. however, as
| regards the memorial, our Foreign Office
| could soon ascertain whether anything can
be accomplished in the matter of getting
| East Indians by direct application by adj
| dressing q note on the subject to H. B. M.
| COMMISSIONS Wodehouse, or it will be we'll
| to await the results of the negotiation of
our Royal Commissioner of immigration
late at[Calcutta.
EAST INDIA CONVERSATIONAL
Y KoHALA. June /. 1881.
To His Excellency,
w. L.. GREEN,
Minister of Foreign Relations
| SIR@The undersigned, planters, m~ill-owners,
and residents of the Island of Hawaii, beg Your
Excellency's assistance in removing obstacles in
the way of Introducing East Indian Coolies into
these Islands.
Believing that sufficient has already been writ
ten on this subject, your memorialists will not
take up your time by further words, but Mt once
state their views and wishes.
Your memorialists believe that financial sue
cess in their undertakings will follow the intro
duction of East Indians on plantations and
that failure and ruin will be the inevitable lot of
many who do not avail themselves of the serVic-
es of those people. They therefore earnestly
eminent, under the w~ell-known liberality of
Hawaiian laws regulating the relations between
masters and servants, the privilege of introduce
ing East Indians without the formality of a
special convention.
Your memorialistS subscribe themselves.
Sir, Your very humble and obedient servants,
(Signed)