The Hawaiian gazette., 1885-03-11

Uuder the head of other foreigners are included
the Hawaiian born children of pure foreign parent
age. These IN 1875 numbered az and have since
increased to 2040 but the in this class are
almost evenly divided, they do not materially affect
the matter now under consideration. Reducing
the above figures TO percentages we obtainthe fol-
lowing results. The natives have decreased 92I
per cent, the proportion of decrease among the
females being a little greater than among the
males, viz lO.O6 per cent, of the former and sos
per cent, of the latter. The haIf-castes have in
creased 1888 per cent, the increase among the
females being in slightly greater ratio than among
the Males viz. 24O5 per cent OF the former against
2263 per cent of the latter Although the half
castles have gained more In proportion than the
natives have lost, their total numbers are so much
less that the net result of the changes in both
classes l. actual loss of 1926, being equal to
$50 per cent, on the combined native and half
caste population. The proportion of females in
the aggregate of natives and half-castes remains
very nearly what 1t was six years ago. what little
change has taken place being in tue wrong direc-
ton, the excess OF males over females having in
creased from ga per cent, to $50 per cent Turn
ing now from the Hawaiians to the Chinese Nv.
nnd this element to have grown in six wears from
59l6 TO II $50, being increase of no less than
-uS'zj per cent, of which increase only 532 per
cent were females. Of about eighteen thousand
Chlnese WHO are reported by The census as being
IN the country Mt the present time over 9 per cent
are males and the significance of this fact vii: be
still better understood when it is remembered that
these are nearly all adults and mostly in the prime
OF LIE. IL the facts concerning the natives and
halFcastes afford US but slight ground 70; con-
graduation, what shall say of the influx in sir
years of number of Chinese equal to nearly one
third OF the entire aboriginal population, abont
nlnety-hve per cent, of them being NEIL
Of foreigners ether than Chinese, the increase
has been 1856, or JO5-5I per cent of which num-
Der $500, or $3.50 per cent. were females, Not
wlthstand1ng the comparatively favorable show
ing of this portion of the census tue fact however
sti remains that the excess Of males over females
taking the whole population together has increased
both absolutely and relatively. In 1873 that excess
was lO,2l or lI.65 per cent. In 1884 it had risen
tO ~ 500, or 27.93 per cent. ''7'D
And finally, taking the total increase in popuIa-
ton for the last six years and dividing it on the
basis of sex, We find the males have Increased
oil per cent. while the females have increased
only 2l.60 per cent
II must be remembered moreover that the com
paratlvely favorable showing, which the foreiyu
Immigration other than Chinese makes in the
matter of women and children due mostly TO the
Portuguese who have been imported under ths
! auspices OF the government. According to the
census OF lSfs there were only 436 Portuguese In
the country of whom SIS we're males and h
| females. Since that time the number has in
creased to 9y3Tf, of whom 5.2sg or 5IS7 ter cent
are males aud LES 44.13 per cent are females
The Portuguese population has increased in the
last SIX years over twenty one hundred per cent
The operation of this cause must be regarded
however as exceptional and temporary. The i'm