The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-06-19
Immigration TO THE ISLANDS,
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In June. 1868, an act was passed, author
jzing the Board of immigration to brlng
in Polynesians OF both sexes, and TO
hind them out to service under contract
Accordingly, the following year. Oaptaln
English was sent in command OF the
Maunaloa on a cruise to the South, re-
turning with 81 Manahlkis from ReIr-
son's Island and Humphreys Island.
The following September Captain Eng
Iish was sent again, In command OF the
r w. Wood, and brought back ~ Bu-
kabukas, so-called, from Danger Island.
These last people turned out to be very
unsatisfactory, and most OF them were
sent home on the schooner ANNE, Cap
tain Babcock. The experiment OF intro
ducing Polynesians was then dropped Tor
about ten years. ~,
For many wears Walter Murray Glib
son advocated the introduction OF Malay
sian settlers, who, he said, would "lniuse
frash hlood from a kindred source into
the decaying Hawaiian race" He point
ed to the rapid growth OF Singapore ana
of the Malay settlements on the coast OF
New Guinea as examples OF what mlght
be done. NJ de Varigny, who was then
1850 Hawaiian envoy IN europe, cor
responded on this subject with the Gov
eminent of the Netherlands, when
replied that it could not permit any such
ernipration az was proposed from us
E,aat India possessions. 10 B1r. Gibson s
GREAT disappointment, the scheme OF
sending him to the East Indies, as Com
missioner of immigration, was gwen up:
The next cognate race which was sought
for was the Japanese, A long cores
pondence on this subject was carried on
with Mr.. Eugene Van Reed, Hawaiian
Consul in Japan, and in January, 1868,
he sent 148 Japanese laborers by the
ssSocioto," The people were under three
years. contracts for wages at 81 per
month besides food, lodging and medical
attendance. They gave excellent salts
faction. but before long false reports OF
ill-treatment reached Japan, IN conse-
uuence of which two commissioners were
sent in 1870 to investigate their con-
dition.
Although the commissioners admitted
that they found no ground for complaint,
they took back forty of their countrymen
to japan, binding each one to labor three
wears in order to reimburse their govern
ment for the expense of the return pas
sage.
Gfbson's Lanai Colony.
1t was in the same year, 1870, that Mr.
Gibson brought out from the United
States a little colony of white immigrants
TO Lanai to cultivate his lands on shares
According to Mr.. Gibson, the agreement
was that each person should take up
at least twelve acres of land for a period
of twelve months, the proprietor to
supply them meanwhile with lodgings,
working animals and tools. me crop
was to be equally divided between land
lord and tenant. Should the latter refuse
to carry out his part of the contract, his
~
be forfeited Owing to the severe
drought which prevailed during that year
and other causes, the experiment proved
to be a sad failure, and the unfortunate
immigrants denounced the Shepherd OF
Lanai as a cruel imposter. At best, 1t
was q visionary, impractical scheme.
The Hawaiian Immigration Society.
The Hawaiian immigration Society,
composed of the chief business men OF
this country, was founded Novem Der 3,
1872, but little seems to have been &C
complished by it. Its secretary, Walter
Murray Gibson, in the first report pro
perly stated the building up OF nat!on
to be ''the vital question, without which
we cannot hope to maintain an lndepen-
dent organization" and he never ceased
to recommend the Malay races as class
of settlers who would not much affect
the identity of the Hawaiian race, anc
whose gradual influx would harmonic
and strengthen the native stock.
The Reciprocity Treaty with the United
States, which went into effect in Septem
Der, 1876, created pressing demand fol
labor. The relative merits OF Immigrant
from China, Japan, the Malay Archipel-
ago, Hindoostan, the Azores, Madeira
and the islands of the South Pacific were
discussed al length, with respect to then
qualities as laborers or colonlsts, theI
adaptation to amalgamate with the ma
tive Hawaiians, etc.
Great efforts were made, especially by
MIR. Godfrey Rhodes and MIR. Horne
from Bauritius, to induce the Govern
ment to make a convention with Eng
land in regard to the importation
Hindoo coolies from British India, anC
Hon. I'll. A. P. Carter, while in England
in 1877, made personal inquiries on thi
subject at the Foreign Office and tn
immigration Bureau. His report on tn
onerous conditions required by the In
dian government, and on the characte
of the Hindoo coolies, was very dlscour
aging, and all efforts in that direction
were dropped for the time.
Portuguese immigration.
At the same time arrangements wer
made through DR.. Hillebrand, who wa
residing on the island of Madeira, for tn
immigration of Portuguese from tina
island and the Azores. The pionee
company OF $50 Portuguese arrived her
September so, 1878, by the Priscilla, iron
Funchal, followed by the Ravens
crae, from Madeira, with Al
Portuguese, and the Hightyel
from the Azores, with 332 passengers
The business was conducted throug
Hoffnung & Co., of London, and tn
first three com panies signed no contract
till after their arrival here. After thu
time, however, the signing OF contract
before embarking was made sine Qu
non by the Hawaiian Government. !
1882, Hon. 81. A. P. Carter succeeded
negotiating an immigration conyenuo