Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1881-08-06
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

MORENO, we are assured, is hopelessly dis
credited. The million of Cinnamon at seven
dollars per head have reached no farther than
the earliest stage of development from the
inner consciousness of the ingenious individual
who first started the idea; nevertheless the
Chnaman is overrunning the country little
too fast. No one is more alive to the advant-
ages of organization than the Chnaman; they
know how that union is strength, and they
might take it into their heads to make their
strength known in very unpleasant manner.
The ZenLIndia came in from Auckland on
Sunday evening, and sailed at twenty-five
minutes to | p. NJ. on Monday. Owing to the
apprehensions of some uncertainty as to her
movements, she did not take so large freight
as usual. The Royal band was on the wharf
as usual, and after playing pleasing selection
of pieces, played as the steamer left the wharf,
Il series of national airs concluding with Ha-
wai Popoi Amongst the passengers, were
the newly named Bishop of Olba, so long and
favorably known here as Father Herman. He
goes TO be consecrated by the Episcopate of
California, accompanied by Father Leonore and
Father Auber. The steamer-shed on these
occasions is desperately hot and i'll ventilated.
Might it no! be possible to open some wire
guarded slts near the roof of the ma,ika wall
in such manner as to let in the trade-wind and
yet not favor smugglers?
LAST Saturday the Hssperia was allowed
to come into the harbor with near 500 China
men on board. These were carefully examined
by the appointed physician, and $50 landed
at the Fishermans Point Quarantine station.
This thinning of the numbers on board rem
dered an inspection of the ship practicable,
and every part of her was examined. 1t speaks
well for the Captain and officers of the ship
that she was found as clean and wholesome
as could be expected, no trace of infectious
disease being found. The remainder of the
passengers, 773 in all, were allowed to land
and were soon swallowed up in the mazes of
Nuuanu and Maunakea streets. OF these,
some three hundred are men who have been
here before, returned to China, and then come
back here some with wives and children, and
some with male relatives, amounting altogether
to over four hundred Of the passenges- of the
remainder, less than two hundred have "ship-
ped, " so the planters gain very little by this
last immigration, and the country at large
gains less Five hundred and seventy or there
| abouts additional Chinese, of whom nobody
knows how or where they propose to earn
their living, is not pleasant reflection. With
the return of His Majesty and his Immigra-
ton Commissioner we hope to hear something
of the proposed treaty. The question of limit
lug the immigration of males of any one race
in overwhelming numbers will be a prominent
one for the next Legislature. Candidates and
voters alike should take council together how
to control or mitigate what threatens to become
u serious and menacng evil
We have been much interested and not q
little instructed by an inspection of Mr.. Fur
neaux's views of the crater Of Kilauca, the
new crater or source Of the lava flows, some
two thousand feet below the summit crater,
aud the series OF sketches, over thirty in num-
Der, of the different flows taken from various
points Of view and under every variety Of
atmospheric condition. These sketches, for
some are as yet only sketches, are most emi-
nently realistic, and at once ineligible. We
do not propose to criticize them as works of
art---we do not profess to be competent to do so.
! but as vivid representations of that which they
are meant to represent, We think them to be
admirable. Three months hard work in Ha-
waii is now being wrough. up into most tell
ing series OF pictures; we're each one labelled
with note as 10 locality and date, those who
study them would have better idea Of tho
varied appearances of the different branches
of the different flows than the most felicitous
pen could give. In one, an explosion, may be
OF heated all ia confined space. maybe, Of a
subterranean reservoir Of water reached by
the fluid rock, in another the gradual progress
Of the How, the red hot semi fluid rock pouring
out from under its cooled surface, in another
the coutrasled appearance Of u certain plot Of