The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-04-08

dwellings shall be we'll drained aud kept free
from rubbish OF every description with a closet
or priVy, also TO be kept in repair bv the lodging
heuSe keeper or employer OF lGbOrers, for every
SIX adults.
The provisions of the law are excellent,
and they should be strictly enforced. They
DO not call for any extravaganza o. expensive
style OF building or for anything that does
not come within the means of the man who
is in a position to become an employer of
labor. But like the great mass of all popu-
l%ationS, neither masters nor men, i'm the
majority of cases recognize the Importance
of these precautions, which should indeed
need no statute law TO enforce them. The
consequence is hat too many of the dwell
ings occupied by laborers, especially those
occupied by Chinese ami by the South Sea
Islanders are not only unclean internally,
but have accommodations of filth and garbage
about their doors, a prolific source of disease
Itself and also n great aid to the spread of
epidemics AMI a source of aggravation TO
all kinds of sickness. The Commissioners
will recommend To our government a strict
er enforcement of our baneiicent laws in
this regard, and TO that end viii suggest the
appointment of a General Inspector, n we'll
paid official who shall be of known high
character and above suspicion of favOritism
discharge of his duties, and whose whole
time should be devoted TO looking after the
or of being influenced in any way in the dis
| general interests of the labOrers. The Com
miSsioneTS Will also recommend that there
should be on every plantation a building
in which the sick can be segregated from
the healthy; aiso that another medical man
be engaged for Kauai, who should take
charge of the districts of Lihue and Kappa.
Among the interesting events of the month
has been the arrival here of Il special IN is
sion from H. |. NJ. the Mikado of Japan. Mr..
NJ. 5. Nagasaki, the chief of the Mission,
was the bearer of an autograph letter from
the Emperor to King Kalakaua, explaining
that the fear of complications with other
foreign powers had obliged His I'm; .erial
Majesty to delay indefinitely the signature
of a treaty lately negotiated with this king
dom by which, among other things, the
Consular jurisdiction over Hawaiian sub
jects in Japan would have been done away
with. A full copy of this letter was
published in our last weeks issue. The
Envoy entertained on the 30th ultimo His
Majesty the King and some of the chief per-
sonages of the realm ut asumptOus banquet
at the Hawaiian Hotel.
We have also to chronicle the arrival
here on 26th ultiIno of the captain and
twenty-one men of the crew of the
British ship Norval after u wonderful
boat voyage of 2000 miles from the place
where they abandoned their burning ship.
A lengthy account of the destruction of the
vessel and of the subsequent voyage in boats
to these islands IA feat which has few par
allels in the annals of maritime adventure
will be found i'm our issue of LIST inst. The
Chief Officer of the Norval and seven of the
crew who were in one of the ships life-boats
were lost sight of by the others on the first
night after leaving the ship and it is hoped
that they were picked up by some passing
vessel. The Captain gave them n rendez
vous, in case of parting company, at Hawai-
haze Bay, on the leeward coast of Hawaii,
and they would have undoubtedly reached
here by this time ifsomething, fortunate or
otherwise, had not happened to divert them
from their course.
In another column we give the Customs
returns of our exports for the past quarter.
These show a large increase in the export OF
sugar, such favorable weather as we have
had during the period having been taken
advantage of to bring forward and ship large
quantities of sugar which have been chok-
ing the storehouses on orr Plantations to
windward all throu yh thu winter months
We may add that when the accounts of the
Treasury were closed at the end of OuI
biennial financial period, 3lst March ult., 6
balance of about Sl41,OO remained in
hand.
TIE AMERICAN CHIMES WALL.
We nave all read of the wonderful Chi.
nese wall; so long, so high, So wide, anC
built ages ago by millions of people, il
order to keep out of their borders, the ont
side barbarians; and all of us in early
instruction were led to believe that thi
great work, was a monument of nationa
folly, and Il Stupendous illustration of mar
row minded race prejudice. And yet il
this year of grace, the mighty and enlight
ened United States of America have re
solved to initiate the Chinese of past dar'
ages, and construct their wall of seclusion
The Chinese restriction bill is Il Remarkable
new feature in the history of America. Al
races subject to t%yrannieS and prejudice
elsewhere, were invited to come to a Ian,
of perfect freedom. The Africans are ther
in millions. The races of Europe hav
come by the hundreds of thousands. An,
in that land, there is Il we'll organized, pow
lul VI hiiS iiiAO NJ BNCRANf N
conceive an extraordinary fear at the pres
ence of a body of Asiatic iaborers very littl
more tha the thOusandth part of the popu
lation, and that acknowledges as it were
that it cannot harmonic or assimilat
them, with the help of its :ens of thousand
of religious and educational guides; no
control, or organize them by means of it
governmental, or police administration
and that its only safety is in a wall of eX
clusion in the shape of a law prohibitin
r ingress.
This Hawaiian Kingdom, and the Hawa
iian People of all races, have a hundred fol
gIaver reasons to be exercised about tn
presence of the Chinese, than the people Q
the United States of America. About one
> half of our adult population are Chinese
, and if they mean offensive intrusion, or in
q, yasion, they are numerically sufficient to b