Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1885-03-07

/ they being then counted amongst other for.
/ eigners' thus improperly swelling the apparent
departures Of these last. Neither can one pro-
cure the separate figures Of Portuguesi deaths
and births, and these last. with so many mar.
ried eouplee, and with that race being such a
| prolific one must be considerable; 50 that at any
tate there is every reason to suppose, until
| proof Of the contrary, that the census has not
reached all The members ofthis nationality and
[ there Is little to be surprised at this, as the
| Portuguese ar. often very ignorant and the
operation Of census, which they are unable
to understand, must carry with itself an i'm.
| pres,icn Of awe and suspicion, under which so
many as could. must have shirked from the
responsibility Of answering the official fOrms, OF
Of giving ful and accurate reports.
As regards other foreigners, very little light
can be gathered from the available official
I documents. The custom house reckons since
| 1873, 3,zSs foreigners arrived in excess e the
departures which, as already seen, include
also the Portuguese this figure added to the
4,i7s counted in 1873, census, would give At
least 7.4io, whilst Superintendent Clarke ony
finds 6,ooo. Dde credit must, however, bc
given u him ftr the unknowabc factors Of
deaths and births, though personally now,
or have heard of so many "whitc people who
have not been returned in the census forms.
that we cannot blame those critics who
say that at least 100 foreigners have been
omitted, nor those who very plausby con.
slider that since 1873, the percentage of married
foreigners having considerably increased, it
can be supposed that amonps: them births
more than compensate the deaths.
Halfcases seem also undercsiimeted
They were the rapidly growing and promising
element Of the former eensuses. Their increase
from the census Of 1866 to that u 1872 was
S47 and that from 1872 to 1873 was o55. A
proportional increase land there is no reason
why il should not have continued, and even
have been considerably augmented ought to
have carried the presen' excess TO about i,ioo.
while the increase proclaimed ly the last
census is only 79S. This shows that probably
many ha fcasies have this time been counted
as full-nativys, thus incorrectly aucmen,ing the
numb.r Of these by fully three hundred.
This brings nv to the last element Of this
review, the pure llawaiians, OF those who
must be counted as such have just stated
how their number has certainly BEEN everest.
mated hy mixing half.castes, but this did not
fully explain the difference existing with my
own estimate. was inclined to suppose that
in their Gag rness to procure good showing 10
the native race, the agents of the cSpsus had
duplicated many names ; in instances of persons
b ing away from their houses on III. night ii
the operations, they night easily b, counted
both at their own residence and in the house
where they sept. But II a rumor current in
town is true, it must only hc a wonder tha, the
total is not larger still, as il has been said thai
in certain districts cents had been promised
TO the sub-ag :nts for every name Il was going
to say for every headl Of Kanaka ,ha, they cou d
procure and msy not this "two.cent,d
, temptation have proved irresistible for some at
least Of The sub.ag gens2 Bu, whether this rumor
, is correct, suppose no one will ever know
better than The agents themselves.
) A, any rate, and in spite Of the counter
authorities beirg so mcagre aud incomplete,
one thing, suppose can be taken as irrefuta
bic, and that is that the last census is failure
/ and that its undeniablc incorrectness make,
its operations only basis for atbJoximah
valuations. My furthr de luciions will cunse.
: quently have somewhat less weight than nigh
5 have been possible otherwise but what cou,C
/ be expected b .tter from the presumption Of Civ
ing the whole working of such. difficult minute
E Gus and precise operations (Which on iOrmtr oc
cas.ons were given only to the most reliab'
foreign residents) to natives on'y, some o
) whom, even among the agents--and certainl'
5 good many Of the sub-agen,s--are known Il
: have been absolutely irresponsible, llitera,e
unreliable mtnp
9 As it is. consequently put more re'ianc
! on the figures, procured as above from III
custom house and board Of education com
bned and think tha, something approaching
to the following corrections must he made L
/. the official figures lately published neglec,in
fractions:
f1se whole population be put at .......... $500
or nov iiclu ling the Portuguese and Japan
g csc lately arrived, about 81 1000.
- The Chinese increased by y..............I,coo 9oc
u The Portuguese incr aseI Discriminatory TO- &c
Th> ha Tastes Increased by..........-,...lo tsc
Tne o her toreigne increased py ..........oo 7,cc
Leaving the Hawaiian born fOre. gners what
they are '.'....... .,..,-...''....... 2,oc
The tiawaiians diminished by soo........... 39,.C
Perhaps Mr.. Clarke. with the help of wh'
;, official documents lie may procure, will lie alb
= to make those corrections with mole precision
y a I'd sincer.'y regr:, the arlu ,l' faithful al
IS valuable work he has thus spsnt on b
j. incomplete documents
, p.-REsULTs CT THE CINsrs.
!. Taking, however, the official figures Of Ii
d census for correct with the mental restriction
e have just madel | shall now compare ii
= actual state u the POI ulalinn. with ,ha, show
Is by the preceding censuscs, and a table will I
7. once facilitate my work. after first recal!in
,i that the population estimated ly Co'.k in III
m at 4oo,ooo wai better estimated In 1879