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The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1891-10-27
Small Opiuru Seizure.

Thursday evening William Shell
don, custom house officer, cap
tured two Cinnamon with twelve
tins of opium in Chinese store on
the corner of Smith and Beretania
streets. The opium was in tin
boxes very much like powder TASKS
and no doubt was put up in that
manner to elude the customs officers,
Mr.. Sheldon states that he took a
trip around Chinatown dressed in
civilians clothes; he walked into the
store and purchased a cigar; the
conduct of the Chinese present
aroused his suspicion so he decided
to make a search; he then walked
into back room and found the
Cinnamon with the opium, about
to put it in a bag and depart.
He placed them under arrest, but
they made such a resistance he was
compelled to call in Joseph Nc
CURE to assist in landing them in
the cooler. The trial will come up
this morning before Judge Hopkins.
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works, and all those mechanics ana
contractors who build houses and per
form services of any kind for any one
directly or indirectly interested in sugar.
Onr whole industrial society is composed
of an elaborate system of wheels within
wheels. and the power which drives the
whole vast machine is SUGAR. What
would YOU sailors of the sugar fleet do
without sugar? The expansion OF that
industry brought the whole fleet into ex-
istence. We all remember when the
entire steam marine consisted OF one old
vessel, the OLD KILAUEA. No great de-
mand for labor on her! What would
you do, gentlemen of the Union
Ironworks, without the Eva Planta-
ton? The demand for machinery
is the demand for your labor and
your wages could and would never be
paid, without that demand. The inter-
vention of middleman, the Iron Works
Co., cannot obscure so plain fact.
To cut long story short we ALL live
by sugar-commission merchants and
street vendors, railroads and hackmeD,
the man who writes this article and the
compositor who sets it up, lawyers and
doctors, school teachers and government
clerks, we all in one degree or another
are affected by the condition of the one
great productive industry OF the country.
Sugar pays for all our imports, the
clothes we wear, the Injuries we indulge
in, the food we eat. Ii the industry re-
ceives a set back the demand for labor
and commodities will fall, merchants
viii fail, and mechanics will be COM
PEELED to leave the country. 1t is to be
hoped that hay will prove good crop
for there will be plenty of grass growing
in the streets.
We have neither the desire nor the
intention to indulge in gloomy predic-
tons. On the contrary, we take an
optimistic view OF the future and feel
great confidence in the unbounded re-
Operative power OF the country. But
sugar is, and must in any case for a
number OF years remain, our prin-
ciple staple, and we cannot contem-
plate the possible spectacle of great
industry ruined, without serious appre-
hension. This apprehension we believe
will prove groundless, il energy and fore
sight are brought to bear upon the
problem. But it may prove to be only
too we'll founded if the voters of the
country who shape its policy by their
votes, persist in the absurd delusion that
none but few "sugar barons" have any
thing to lose by disaster to sugar.
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Arrival of the Monowai.

The Union Steamship Co. IS SIS. Mono
wal, NJ. Carey, commander, arrived in
port at AN, Saturday, Oct. "a, 615
days from San Francisco. She left the
latter port on the 18th inst, at 8 BOP M,
being two days late owing to detention
of mails. Had a fine weather trip
throughout. The Monowai in addition
to large general cargo brought Sells
Bros circus and menagerie for Sydney
the largest show ever ahoat on the
Pacific, viz: 5 elephants, hippopo-
tamil, Al horses, many animals OF all
kinds and some 165 male and female
performers, etc make up one of the
largest undertakings of the kind in the
world. After landing cargo for this port
and taking in over 200 tons of coal, she
resumed her voyage for the Colonies on
Saturday night. Besides 276 passengers
in transit, she took IA cabin and 3 steer
age passengers from this port.
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such persons as may wish TO acquire Home
steads upon which to live
2-Maps of these Lots can be examined
at the Land Office, Interior Department,
Honolulu, or at the office of @. Williams at
Honokaa, Hamakua.
sc. Williams will point out the Lots
TO any person desiring to see them, for
which services be Will be entitled to fee OF
81 from the person applying.
4-Persons who may desire Lots shall
apply in writing to the Minister of the In
terror upon blank form, copies of which
NAV be obtained free of said c. Williams.
5-No application Will be considered
from persons who already own land.
6-Every applicant must be of full age.
The applicant will be allowed ten
wears in which to pay for the land, during
which time it will be exempt from taxes.
She must within one year build u
dwelling house on the Lot and begin to
occupy the same and continue to occupy 1t
for the remainder of the term of ten years.
She must within three years enclose
the Lot with substantial fence.
1O-He must pay quarterly in advance,
interest upon the unpaid purchase price at
the rate of per cent. per annum. The
purchaser may pay the whole or any part
of the purchase price at any time, which
will stop interest.
1.-The preliminary agreement is nom
assignable and the land cannot be sold
until all conditions are fulfilled.
I2-Failure to comply with any of the
conditions will work a forfeiture of the
land.
c.. n. SPENCER.
Minister of the Interior.
Interior Office, Oct. 20, 1891. 13S8-2t
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PROPOSED AMENDMENT
Secretary

To ARr1cLE So OF THE CONSTITUTION OF 1887,
AS PROVIDED FOB By ARTICLE 80 OF THE
SAID CONSTITUTION.
Be it enacted by the King and the Legisla-
ture of the Hawaiian Kingdom:
SECTION 1. That Article IS of the Consti-
tuition of 1887, be and the same is hereby
amended by striking out the words "two
hundred and fifty in the seventh line, and
inserting in place Thereof the words " five
hundred so that the Article shall read as
follows:
"Article So. The Representatives shall
receive for their services compensation to
be determined by law, and paid out of the
Public Treasury, but no increase of COM
pensation shall Ike effect during the bien-
NAL term in which it shall have been made;
and no law shall be passed increasing the
compensation Of Representatives beyond
the sum of five hundred dollars each for
each biennial term"
l hereby certify that the foregoing Bill
passed its Third Reading in the Legislature
of the Hawaiian Kingdom on the 10th of
November, A. D. 1891.
CHARLES WILCOX,
1885, Secretary.
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attempt to forecast the future,
is the fact that the probabilities
are all the other way. We have
more reason to fear a considerable
fall (from the operation of purely
economical causes, alone be it re-
membered) than we have to hope
for a corresponding rise, in the
price of our one commodity.
This is the evil, too darkly paint
ed. it may be objected, but surely
bad enough at the best. Now what
is the remedy?
The only possible remedy is
CHEAPER LABOR.
The whole matter reduces itself
to an easy example in arithmetic.
Here are the receipts R. and
the expenditures E. E. are big
ger than R. If you can't make
r. bigger you must make E.
smaller. There is only one way
to make E. smaller now and here,
and that is to reduce the cost of
labor. The other means of reduc-
ing expenses-more economical
management, better machinery,
improved appliances. have al
ready been drawn upon to such
an extent that but little is to be
hoped for in this direction. 1t may
be truthfully affirmed that the
sugar business of this country is in
condition of very high Industrial
efficiency. 1t isscientifc, economi-
cal and in possession of the finest
machinery and appliances known.
The future may, and doubtless will,
bring further advances in this di-
rection, but help for the present
need must be sought in some other
quarter. A saving must be made,
and that saving can only be in the
cost of labor. The wages of labor
constitute probably 20 per cent. of
the total cost of production, and a
saving here will be a substantial,
not a trivial economy.
1t may be urged that the ADvER-
TlsER has stated the case and it's
necessities too strongly. We be-
lieve, however, that u calm view
can lead to no other conclusions
than those which we have reached.
They are as plain as a sum in ad-
dition. People who deny them
must invent another arithmetic.
The country must have cheaper
labor. Without it there is but one
alternative.
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SECTION 6. A new Article in addition to,
and in amendment of the Constitution to be
called Article So is hereby added to said
Constitution to read as follows:
"Article SO. The Legislature may from
time to time enact such laws as it may deem
proper for the supervision and control and
identification of all persons or any one class
or nationality who may be introduced into
the Kingdom for the purpose of performing
agricultural labor, and may also, by law, re-
strict and limit the term of residence in the
Kingdom of such agricultural laborers and
the business of employment in which they
may engage"
/ hereby certify that the foregoing Bill
passed its Third Reading in the Legislature
of the Hawaiian Kingdom on the 10th day
of November, A. D. 1890.
CHARLES WILCOX,
Secretary.
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WHO ARE SUPPORTED BY THE SUGAR
INDUSTRY ?

An impression prevails among a GER
tain class in this country that only a
very few persons are interested in sugar,
and that the prosperity of the great
majority would not be seriously affected
even if that industry were ruined. How
fundamentally erroneous this idea is
may easily be shown, and in the first
place the notion so current that the
number of sugar owners is very small is
an error. The incorporation of the lead
ing plantations has resulted in a consid-
cradle distribution OF small quantities of
stock in the hands OF large number of
persons While it is true that the bulk
of the stock is the property of few
hundred persons, it is no less true that
hundreds more are owners OF a few
shares each, and that many have in
vested the whole OF their hard-earned
savings in stock. We know personally
OF many cases of the kind
1t is a common error to suppose that
Hawaiians have no interest in sugar. As
matter of fact, statistics show that
nearly fourth of the laboring Hawaiian
population is employed on the planta-
tons. II we add those who own stocks
and those who lease land to the planta-
tions, it will appear that not far from a
third of the Hawaiian population are
directly interested in the success of sugar
and draw their support from it. The
same thing is true OF the foreign popula-
ton. More than 5000 Portuguese are
employed on the plantations; more than
500 other foreigners are employed as
overseers, managers, carpenters, team
sters, book and time-keepers, etc., etc.
1t thus appears that the class of those
directly interested in sugar includes a
large proportion of all the races and
classes of our greatly-mixed popu-
lation. Upon all those described, a
blow to our leading product would fall
with crushing weight. But to those
who are only indirectly concerned in
sugar such a blow would be hardly less
disastrous; and these latter comprise no
less than the entire residue of the nom
Asiatic population, saving few excep-
tions too unimportant to be noticed here.
vitality, though indirectly, interested
in sugar are 1.-all those engaged in the
transportation and distribution of the
product; 2.-all those engaged in fur
nishing plantation supplies, and Sail
those who perform services for and
furnish goods, wares and merchandise
to all those who work directly or indi-
rectly for the plantations, and to those
who draw the dividends and expend the
profits OF the plantations. These classes
| include all the wholesale commission
houses with their large staff OF clerks,
all the retail merchants, great and small,
all those in the shipping business-mana-
gers, clerks and sailors, all the mechan-
J les in the Union and Honolulu Iron
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TAX COLLECTORS NOTICE !

The Tax Collector for the District of Ka-
wsihsu, will be at the following places on
the dates given, for the purpose of collecting
taxes:
Aoloaa and Papa, Nov. 5rd,' from 10 A.
n. to 4 P. NJ. Anahola and Aliomanu. Nov.
4th, from 10 A. N. to P. NJ. Kealia and
Kappa, Nov. 9Th, from 10 A. NJ. to 4P.M
On all other days Sundays excepted) to
December 18th. the Collector will be at his
Office in Waipouli, from 9 A. NJ. to 4 p. NJ.
The law requires, that all sums over $40 be
paid in gold, and that 10 per cent. be added
to all taxes paid later than December 18th.
S. KAIU.
Deputy Tax Collector of Hawaiian Dis
trict. I393-2t
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A Subscription.

For the past year or SO the
Oceanic and Wilder S. S. Cos. have
dubbed together and paid 500
each month to Mr.. Fl. B. Rice, q
gentleman who has travelled extern
sively on these islands. Mr.. Rice is
engaged in visiting the different
summer resorts in California adyer-
Using the Hawaiian Islands, with
the view of diverting some OF the
travel towards US. The small amount
paid Mr.. Rice is sadly inadequate,
and unless something is done by
our business men to swell the sum
Mr.. Rice will be compelled to retire
from the good work that is and will
be of great advantage to this king
dom.
IL an adequate sum is sub
scribed by our business men, land
we see no reason why it should not
be) say about $500 a month, this
really good plan to have people visit
us will be of incalculable benefit for
this country. The idea is for Mr..
Rice to open an Office in San Fran
cisco, to distribute printed matter
relative to the islands, in fact to do
everything to place before the tray-
cling public the natural beauty of
the Hawaiian Islands.
The subscription list will be
handed around to-day No doubt the
steamship companies will head it with
a good sum, and the balance of the
necessary funds will have to be sub
scribed by our business men. 1t
behooves all to put their names
down no matter how small the sum
NAV no
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MOlOkai Again.

Mr.. EDITOR: We do not propose to
enter into the trouble between Mr.. Pae-
haole and DR.. Mouritz; the doctor can
well take care of himself. Every for
eigner here knows the truth.
Mr.. Paehaole is lawyer, or said to be
one; any way, he has been legislator,
and we would respectfully suggest to him
that he will confer boon on this COM
munity if he will procure little less law
and little more sprinkling of Justice.
Judge, sheriff, police, assessor of taxes,
fence commissioners natives, is a
too one-sided concern, and we would like
a little alteration. A FEW HAoLEs.
Mokuhiki, Molokai, Oct. 81, 1891.
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Mr.. EDITOR: I have not en-
gagged in the Hammond, Harris,
Burgess, ETC., controversy, and I do
not intend to; but noting Mr.. Ham
mond's letter this morning, I am
forcibly impressed with the thought
that he does not at all appreciate
the value of impersonal writing. A
subject which fails of any interest
except that excited by the names
of the writers IS of very little value,
and one which is of general public
interest gains by not being OBJ
structed in any way by the use of
names. So far as the subject mat
ter of the present discussion is con.
cerned, feel, from my reading of
the Bible, that Christ, and l speak
with perfect reverence, was of all
men the most sensible, and l could
never avoid the feeling that if he
had lived in the north of Europe,
in Iceland or some other chilly
place, he would never have been so
foolish as to break the ice for a
baptism. He went into the water
because it was the most natural
and easiest thing to do in hot
Judea. Perhaps that is the best
way here. But no baptism is of
any avail If mans heart is wrong,
so that the form of the ordinance
can be of no avail. Let men act up
to the law of love, and church forms
and rituals will be of little import
ance. A. G.
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TAXES OF 1891.
TAX COLLECTORS NOTICE

The Tax Collector for the District of Ha-
nalei, will be at the following places on the
dates given, for the purpose for collecting
taxes:
Kikiula, Nov. 9Th, from 10 A. NJ. to 4 P. NJ.
Kilauea, " 2nd and 3rd, from 10A.M. to
4P.M NJ. Wainiha, Nov. 10th from 10 AN.
TO APP. NJ.
On all other days Sundays excepted) to
December 18th, the Collector will be at his
Office in Hanalei, from a. NJ. to p. NJ.
The law requires, that all sums over $40 be
paid in gold, and that 10 per cent. be added
to all taxes paid later than December 18th.
w. Z. II. DEVERILL.
Deputy Tax Collector of Ranalei District.
1888 -2tl
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A Big Scare.

Saturday evening about o'clock there
was big scare on board the Monowai.
1t was found necessary to move cage
containing large tiger. In hosting the
animal the tackle parted and the cage
with its contents went to the deck with
loud crash. Everybody thought the cage
had smashed and the animal would re-
gain its freedom. There was wild
scamper in all directions; everybody
seemed to have business up town The
keeper of the animal approached the cage
and discovered that few bars were bent,
but not enough to allow the animal to
escape. The deck hands were induced
to return to their work after being as
sured that there was no danger.
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TAXES OF 1891.
TAX COLLECTORS NOTICE

The Tax Collector for the District of 10
ioa, will be at the following places on the
the dates given, for the purpose of collecting
taxes
Eleele. Nov. End from 10 A. NJ. to P. NJ.
WahIawa, 3rd 10 A. NJ. to P. NJ.
Laval, 4th I0A. NJ. to 4 P. M.
On all other days Sundays exceptedj to
December 18Th, the Collector Will be at his
Office in Koloa from A. NJ. to4P.M. The
law requires, that all sums over $40 be
paid in gold, and that 10 per cent. be added
to all taxes paid later than December 18th.
a. K. MIKA,
Deputy Tax Collector of Koloa District.
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DawaiianOazette
1O-PAGE EDITION.
THE LABOR QUESTION.
Secretary.

The Planters Labor y Supply
Co. hold their annual meeting this
week, and the gathering must
necessarily be one of the most i'm
portant in the history of this com
pany. 1t is to be hoped that all
the plantations will be fully repre-
sented. There is just one question
before planters which swallows up
in Importance everything else,
which is assuming an Importance
which it never had before, and that
is the question of labor.
1t is useless to deny that the
situation is very critical one. 1t
may be pleasant to cover up a
threatening danger with fine words
and deceive ourselves with baseless
hopes, but it is terribly foolish,
and the part of courage and pru-
dence both is to see things and
state things, just as they are.
What are the facts? They are
that sugar is at less than 81 cents
a pound-with no assured pros
pect that it will ever be any
higher; that a statistical eXamina-
ton of the current expenses of
Hawaiian plantations for the past
ten years would show that the
prices ruling since last April would
not cover the average expenditure;
that accounts of sales of some
of the best plantations show
an actual loss since May; that
the discount on the New York
price, the cost of freights, commits
sion and interest, with an ordinary
allowance for wear and tear of
machinery, are likely not merely
to eat up profits but to leave
most of the plantations with
a heavy Irish dividend at the end
of the year.
True, some one may say, the en-
tire capital of the country is in
vested in sugar; true. the destruc-
ton of this industry would be a
heavy blow to all the industrial
classes in the country; true, too,
that sugar cannot be raised at pres
ent prices at profit. That is con-
ceded. But the present price is
abnormally low as it has been be-
fore. 1t will rise as it did before.
This is not the first time the coun-
try has thought itself ruined.
| The answer to all this is, that
the present worlds price of sugar
is NOT abnormally low. On the
contrary it is a fair price
better than has ruled as a normal
price for some time. There has
been no general overproduction.
The worlds stocks are not much
larger than at this time last year.
We cannot hope then that econom-
zeal causes will raise the price.
They may of course do SO tempo
lrarily. What concerns US, in an
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TAXES OF 1891.
TAX COLLECTORS NOTICE f!

The Tax Collector for the District of Lii
hue, will be at the following places on the
dates given, for the purpose of collecting
taxes:
Haiku and Kepu, Nov. 9rd from 10 A. M.
to p. NJ. Hanamaulu, Nov. 4th, from 10
a. NJ. to4P. M. Wailua Kai, Nov. 9TH. from
10 A. NJ. to P NJ.
On all other days Sundays excepted) to
December 18th, the Collector will be at his
Office in Lihue, from A. NJ. to P. NJ. The
law requires, that all sums over $40 be paid
IN gold, and that 10 per cent. be added to
all taxes paid later than December 18th.
j. b. RANAIKE.
Deputy Tax Collector of Lihue District.
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TAXES OF 1891.
TAX COLLECTORS NOTICE !

The Tax Collector for the District OF
Waimea and the Island of Niihau, will be
at the following places on the dates given,
for the purpose of collecting taxes:
Hanapepe, Nov. 3rd, from 10 AN. to M.
Kataba 9th. " " " 90" "
Nonupapa, Milan, Nov. 10Th, from 10 A. NJ.
70 p. M.
On all other days Sundays excepted) to
Dec. 18th, the Collector will be at his Office
IN Waimea, from A. NJ. TO P. NJ. The
law requires, that all sums over $40 be paid
IN gold, and that 10 per cent. be added to
all taxes paid later than Dec. 18th.
THOS. BRANDT.
Deputy Tax Collector of Waimea District
and the Island of NIihau- 1881
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Information Wanted.

Mr.. EDITOR: Can you or any of your
readers give me any information regard
ing new electric railway around Oahu
who it's projectors are and when it is
to be constructed? KAMAAINA.
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Mr.. EDITOR: 1 voice the senti-
ment of many in suggesting that
"Nemo," "Omen" and "Typo" hire
a large hall and talk it over. Yours
truly, CHARLIE Hoss.
Honolulu, Oct. %, 1891.
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HOMESTEAD LOTS IN HAMA
KUA, HAWAII.
Notice is herehu niuan .

Notice is hereby given:
l-That4 As Lots in Ahualoa and IA Lots
In kainehe, Hamakua, Hawaii, have been
set apart for the purpose of conveying to
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CORRESPONDENCE.

We do not hold ourselves responsible for the
statements made, opinions expressed by our
correspondents.
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Bp autborltp

The Justices OF the Supreme Court have
this day appointed w. H. Daniels to be
the Clerk of the Circuit Court of the I'd
Judicial Circuit, in place OF Goodale Arm
strong, resigned. Said appointment to
take effect from and after November l.,
1891.
AIiiolani Hale. Oct. q, 1891.
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What Is a Knot?

Mr.. EDITOR: The recent trips of the
great ocean steamers have raised ques-
ton as to what "knot" is. Is it equiva-
lent to mile on the earth's surface?
Yours truly,