The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-05-03
WAN OVER NINETY THOUSAND
YEN DAMAGES.
The Cruiser Naniwa Coming with
Councillor Akiyama on Board-Cap-
tain of Steamer Puts in a Claim.

The Japanese cruiser Naniwa left
Yokosuka at l p. IN. April 20th.-four
days previous to the China. She has
Councillor A<iyama, of the Japanese
Foreign Office, on board. The vessel
also brings three of the rejected Jap
ahese immigrants, whose presence is
necessary, it is said, to give evidence in
the proposed investigation to be con
Quoted by the Japanese commissioner.
The ship also shelters two Japanese
newspaper correspondents.
The Japanese newspapers are print
ing great deal of matter regarding
the rejection of the Japanese immi-
grants. The Mail says:
THE Naniwa is to leave today for
HawaIi. In the absence of telegraphic
communication with the islands, the
people of Japan will have to possess
their souls in patience. Probably a
month will elapse before they obtain
any clear information as to the course
of the negotiations opened by direc
ton of Count Okuma. 1t is said that
the Emigration Company Of Kobe
claims 32O.60 yen for every man
turned back. The sum of 320.60 yen
is to cover all the expenses incurred
by the emigrant on account of travel
ing, outfit and so forth. 1t sounds a
good deal. The Kobe Company had
313 emigrants returned, so that its
total demand amounts to 97.S93.1S yen.
"Count Okuma having demanded of
the Hawaiian Government an eXplana-
ton, through Minister Shimamura, a
reply was recently given by that Gov
ernment and conveyed to Tokyo just
after Councillor Akiyama had left for
Hawaii. From the reply it appears
that the Hawaiian Minister for For
eign fairs has given up the reasons
he. had maintained at first, and does
not say anything about the cash in
the emigrants' possession. Referring
y
contract guaranteeing employment
Immediately after their landing, and
therefore they were not really free
laborers, but contract laborers who
ought to have been sent out after
having gone through all the steps pro-
vided in the Treaty and that inasmuch
as they had not gone through such
formal proceedings they were illegal
emigrants who could not be permit
ted to land. But as they had actual
| ly the regulation cash of $50 each, ac-
cording to the Treaty, the Hawaiian
Government has, in fact, no reason to
object and to their landing, whatever
contract they might have made with
the emigration companies. The fact
that they had an understanding with
the emigration companies that they
should be given some kind of employ
ment cannot afford any pretext for
saying that they are not really free
| laborers. The Japanese authorities
are, therefore, said to have found more
than ever strong reasons for putting
the onus of the question upon the
Hawaiian Government.
"Another report from Mr.. Shima-
mura, Minister to Honolulu, arrived
on the 10Th by the S. S. Coptic. 1t is
written in English and japanese, and
contains more than 100 pages. Direct
or Takata, of the Commercial Bureau,
examined the report and passed it
round to Count Okuma afterwards. AS
the report might have disclosed facts
more clearly than hitherto known, al
though no outsider can pretend to
know its contents, it is believed an
other instruction will be given to Mr..
Shimamura.
"The S. S. Shinshu Maru has pre-
sented to the Foreign Office, through
the Osaka Fucho, an estimate of her
damages, at the rate of more than
320 yen per day sustained on account
of the Hawaiian Governments refusal
to land emigrants."
A Kobe dispatch to the Jill, dated
April Goth, states that some 300 con-
tract emigrants raised by the Hiro-
shima Emigration Company in ac-
cordance with the regulations of the
countries concerned, will be sent to
Hawaii by steamer which will leave
Yokohama on April 23rd, and that
some 1875 emigrants raised by the 30
yama Emigration Agency will go b.
the steamer China, leaving this port
on the cath.
The Asahi states that Count Okuma
Minister for Foreign Affairs, is pre-
pared after the present Hawaiian
trouble is settled, to demand the re
vision Of the existing emigration regp