Hawaii holomua = Progress. [volume] (Honolulu) 1893-1895, 1894-03-19

70 b master u =hzlsr frora vnev azfse wealthy II
New Zessud they represented clustering principally
Arouad Auckland AangOnu opehunga over 50 In Japan
around Yokohsma and Nskssaki fair to pa. them down
60 one bss been known for years valued oeer il
the Chinese Customs Teatsin others Hougkong
One has Just back from Liverpool after years
absence another returned from Tahiti Eseh year brings
back Of these wanderers from other parts Of the
world after long absences
Also quite number of Hawaiian half caste girls married
to Foreigners, have followed their husbands abroad
OF positive computation can be made of the
total Of ali these emgrant and daughters of Hawaii
which is variousy estimated betxeen and thou
sand But the absolute loss TO the nation here the last
SO years. from the various kind Of .bsentess cannot
estimate less than quarter of the whole decrease -
Thus longer be denied gooly proportion OF
depopulaon must be attributed other causes than
deaths and local factors Bat fortunately the emgrang
tendency extinct very few have left the country
within the last decade, the whaler although on the
ascendant again longer here to recruit crews and
such Hawaiian sailors who still navigate outside of the
InterIsand feet board ships engaged the regu
lar clipper trade between the Islands and America Eng
land, Germany and Australia h these do eventually
back here though they computed the Censns 1t
can therefore be expected that emigration of
decrease of population will have further noticeable
effect unless dsasefu unbearable political changes forced
the remnants of the Hawaians go and seek refuge with
some of their South Sea cousins.
Tie Hal:eases the Hope of the Future Now we
come to the most interesting element of the Hawaiian
population. For quite a while. the haf-castes we're not
taken into any account in official documents being merely
counted, either with the pure Hawaiians or with the
Foreigners The census of 1850 was about the first to
mention EN- PEASANT that 3l2 foreigners married native
had 55S children That of 1853 that ont of
1911 foreigners then living Honolulu and Oahu 9S were
married TO native and 20 to hafcastes" But it
not before 1866 that the hafcases were counted
separately from the other elements Table has shown
how rapidly they have increased and here be said
that the people who do freely return themselves half
castles nearly all have received the best education available
here The data therefore given by them to the last
enumerators such that the official figures relating to
them may be taken the most correct From these we
gather:
1s That the equally represented l0l
females for OS5 males thus giving the only about
OS cent? Of females have in the national clements
I'd That then half (55 per cent? of our half
castles yet under Is years of age and that only 27
of the total of 1s6 Is years that nearly all the
females OF that class either still within the physiological
age will gradually rpen to it, thus constantly increasing
the number of probable chldbeares, and promising
inabe increase in geometrica progression within the
next few years;
3D. That out of 1891 hatcaste over Is years of
age only 754 yet married 54 q per cent rs whom
sge), and these mothers have already $50 children
ratio of Or to each mother of which IL 90 per
survive.
And yet these figures however forcibe do not give full
idea of the true fertility Of halfcaste women, since
nearly all of them only Just beginning to bear
ruer conception of the capacity of this element will
obtained by individual examples, selected random:
The grand father of Hon S. Parker ex-minister of
Foreign Afairs, married in Wamea Hawaii, Kipikane,
pure native, who bore children of whom accidentally
died without issue from the other have already sprung
103 descendants go of whom living lady of this
family had child with white husband and IS children
with native husband.
Hon. J. A. Cummins, whose American father married a
pure native, has already % living children aud grand
children.
Hon ]. E Bush, whose English father married pure
native. has had II children, by two hafcaste wives
Mrs Brckwood half native aud Indian has had from an
English husband, children and "a grandchildren A.
being alive out Of the i3
From J. Robinson ,Englishl and two wives one half
caste the other full native have been born 81 persons
two generations 81 of whom living.
voluntarily Kamehameha had children OF pure
native wives from whom 10 descendants living
- three generations and vet several of his children
died without issue
An American named Stilman. by fall native. had
children from whom followed 81 descendants. "a
living
The Hot family English father and half white mother
now count In the third generation persons living