The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-08-13
JAPANESE
COT WORK


messages sent here by the japanese
Consul at Vancouver and given out tc
the local japanese press here. Instead
of being stranded after arrival it ap-
pears that practically all the immi-
grants were given work at once. The
Victoria Colonist publishes the follow
ing:
VANCOUVER, July 26.-Eleven hun
bred and ninety japanese from Hawaii
landed in Vancouver today. The IN
vasion. of the little brown men has Just
begun. The japanese on landing today,
prior to the harangue in native tongue
by Consul Morikawa, deposited with
him s25 each, the minimum amount i'm
migrants must have in their possession
before they are allowed into the eOun-
try. The consul says passports and
money will be refunded new arrivals
as soon as they secure employment.
OF the new arrivals $50 will be pro-
vided with accommodations in japanese
boarding houses on Powell street. The
others VIII leave this afternoon for Ste
weston and other points on the Fraser
river
AS soon as arrangements are com
pleted between 500 and 500, according
TO requirements, will be shipped east
to work on the prairie section of the
Grand Trunk Pacific. Many of the
new arrivals win be given employment
in northern canneries. Others will be
given work by the Stave Lake Power
company. The steamers Venture and
Britannia will also convey the Japan
csc to Steveston tonight.
KUMERIC DISCHARGING.
The steamer KumerIe at noon today
began diseharging its human freight
at the dock of Messrs. Evans, Coleman
& Evans. Three customs officers have
been assigned to the task of examining
the baggage of the new arrivals, who
are being landed in patches of four and
five. The inspection seems to be I'M
usually rigorous. 1t will be midnight
before their task is completed.
The dramatic feature of the Japan
csc invasion was the spectacle presented
when the coolies descended the gang
plank. Each man, acting under the in
struetions of the local japanese consul,
who addressed the multitude from the
bridge, did not reach British soil until
he had deposited $25, and his passport
in a spacious gunny sack, held by an
official of the local consular agency.
Mr.. Morikawa, the representative of the
imperial japanese government, witness
ed the proceedings. He explained that
the monies thus collected would be re-
funded as soon as his countrymen Sc
cured employment.
call upon the Liberal government
at Ottawa to Immediately take steps
TO eurtail japanese immigration into
British Columbia was telegraphed last
night to Sir Wilfrid Laurier by the
Liberal association of Vancouver. This
action was decided upon at session
of the executive OF that body held last
night at the Liberal club rooms. The
resolution anent this matter, which was
passed, reads as follows:
Whereas the large influx of Jap
anese into this province is detrimental
to the best interests of the province
and threatens to unsettle labor condi-
tions;
Therefore, be it resolved that this
executive strongly urges upon the Do
minion government the necessity of
taking immediate action by arrange
ment with the government of Japan, or
otherwise, to check such immigration,
and further, that this executive strongly
approves of the steps taken by R. G.
Macpherson, NJ P, in this matter"
Ldilg ytSteIudg dllSiHOoH lWo AteiS
boats might have been seen skimming
the placid surface of the inlet to the
anchored British tramp steamer Ku-
meric, with its army of unwelcome in
Yaders.
The first put out from the immigra'
ton detention shed with DR.. A. S
Brown and his assistants, armed with
serious papers. The second emerged
from the shadow of Evans, Coleman &
Evans wharf with men and money
$4,000 in brand new Bank of Com
merce twenties and fves.
The twelve hundred brownies beam
ed down over the railing upon both
with an expression of calm indiffer-
ence. Apparently they did not know
the difference of either. All seemed
TO be as happy as If the Kumeric were
their own private yacht and they were
on a vacation cruise.
''They have been this way since they
left Honolulu" said Capt. Andrew
Baird. ST have never seen a merriel
crowd nor finer lot of Oriental i'm
migrants
The nineteen women and hundred:
Of men were sitting about the decl
smoking, laughing and chatting. Al