Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-09-25
HAWAIIAN ISLANDS.
News from Honolulu to the 18th of Sep
tember


The steamer Mariposa arrived at San
Francisco Tuesday from Honolulu, bring
ing dates to the 18th inst.
New regulations concerning Chinese i'm
migration into the islands were promul-
gated on September LIST. From that date
no vessel coming from a foreign country
will be allowed to land more than twenty
five Chinese passengers at any port in the
Hawaiian Kingdom, unless the passengers
in excess of that number are provided with
passports emitting them to enter the king
dom. These passports are only issued 10
Chinese now residents of the islands who
wish to go away with the purpose of re-
turning; TO Chinese women wishing to go
to the islands, and to children whose pa
rents may be already there.
Such is the sanitary condition of Homo
lulu, that it is said on good authority that
should yellow fever or cholera make an ap-
pearance there the consequences would be
fearful. Either would make a clean sweep.
All conditions are favorable to their spread.
Custom-house Guard Kahawai ON Satur-
day evening. September 18th. arrested z.
Lucas, second steward on board the Mari
posa, while the latter was leaving the
Oceanic wharf, with four tins of opium in
his possession. When taken to the station
Lucas told the officer in charge that more
opium could be found in his room on board
the steamer. With this cue officers insti-
tuted a search in the place designated and
found seventeen more tins under the mat
tress.
On the last trip of the Mariposa, as she
was nearing the entrance buoy of Honolulu
harbor, heavy box was lowered over the
side and seen TO sink in the water. The
supposition was that it contained opium,
and the police and number of native div
ers spent a long time trying to recover the
package, but without success.
On Saturday night, September 18th, there
was terrible storm on Molokai the locali-
ty of the leper settlement. The church at
Kalaupapa, which was dedicated by DIR.
Hyde two days before the storm, was bodily
lifted from its foundation and so wrecked
as to make it unsafe, and it is deemed pru-
dent TO have it pulled down. Large kukui
trees, two or more feet in diameter, and
cypress trees of huge dimensions, were up
rooted and laid down, or the trunks were
snapped like pipe stems. The storm lasted
only an hour, but it was the most severe
known there for forty years.
Twenty-Five lepers were sent from the
Kakaako Hospital to Molokai on the 18th
inst. The parting of these unfortunates at
the wharf from their relatives is said to
have been very affecting.
Complaint is made that every Portuguese
child old enough to carry pail of
water, or handle light hoe, is made to
labor in the fields, and that it is exceeding
ly difficult to procure their attendance at
school,
Some of the newspapers favor an effort
looking TO the inducement of an immigra-
ton of Scotch crofters, who are thought to
possess many qualities which will 90 to
build up the prosperity of the islands.
a petition signed by large number of
San Francisco business men has been pre-
scented to the King, asking for the reinstate-
ment of Consul Severance in that city.
Business in commercial circles in Homo
lulu is said to be undergoing season of
unprecedented depression.