The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-12-04


That they were induced by a person
named Nagusa. who lives on Fort
street of your city, and ]. P. Ball, No
"a King street, also of your city, in
the belief that by taking the said ves-
sci they might easily land on the main
land without even the necessity of hav-
ing show money"
! That besides the regular fare, they
paid seven dollars to ten dollars each
thus guaranteed them with safe trans
portation and easy landing. etc.;
! That after they were all embarked
they We're told by Nagusa that the
steamer would not call on the United
States mainland but he assured them
that the agents at Victoria would look
after the immigrants on their arrival
at that port and cause no incon-
venience to them, etc, ETC., thus COM
pletely cheating them.
The immigration Law of British CO.
lumbia not only requires an immigrant
to undergo an educational test. but the
immigrant, if rejected on the failure of
such test has to get out of the country
ship company who had imported him
having no responsibility whatsoever in
the premises. The immigrant in de-
fault of this law will be punished with
the fine not more than five hundred
dollars or by Imprisonment not more
than three years.
The immigrants who arrived from
your port, however, are not prepared
for this emergency, having only a small
amount of money with them as the re-
suit of placing too much trust in the
words of the agents. Consequently they
We're to receive the penalty. After sew
eral conferences with the immigration
officials, I had however, obtained
respite in their behalf during which
time / shall able to send them away,
with the help of several public spirited
residents of the place, to Seattle and
San Francisco and thus closed this dis
agreeable episode.
According to their statement there
are over hundred more of immigrants
who intend to leave there HonolulW
under similar methods by an Austria
liam steamer which leaves your port on
the 18th inst. for this port. AS you are
is at present prohibiting the migration
of her immigrants into this country
m" wishing, therefore, to call your
serious attention to this matter, re-
main.
Yours most respectfully,
SUYESHIRO MORIKAWA.
(SeaD Consul at Vancouver.
Dated Nov. End, 1903
To Consul General Mkt Saito, at Ho-
nolulu.
herewith enclose for your reference
papers showing the residences of the |
above mentioned immigrant agents,
that were brought over by the immi- |
grants. And also call your attention
to the fact that the passports of the |
immigrants We're left in the |
hand of the man Nagusa, and desire
your due investigation of this matter:
Kiichiro Iyeda, hisS wife Kane: MI
makuma Motokichi, Yoshitaro Hira-
bayashi, Mich Fujioka. Tokuzo Oga-
wa, Tetsuzo Hoshino Tamikichi Higu-
chi.
Several of the Japanese who did not
leave for Victoria, after learning that
they We're to be shipped to British Co
lumbia instead of to San Francisco
went to Balls Office and requested their
money back, exhibiting their receipts.
The attorneys interpreter roughly Or
dered them from the office, saying they |
had not complied with the conditions of
the agreement, and We're therefore not !
entitled to any returns. These men
have been living at Japanese hotels
since the Moana left, and 1t Is their in