Hawaii is disturbed over the news that the Japanese cruiser _Naniwa_ is on
its way to Honolulu.

She brings with her a special Japanese Commissioner, who will investigate
the immigration matters, and claim from the Government of the Sandwich
Islands the sum of $100,000 damages for preventing her citizens from
landing.

It is reported that the _Naniwa_ has on board three of the emigrants who
were refused admission, and that she will try and land them, for the
purpose of making the Hawaiian Government prove in the courts its right to
forbid their entry.

The Japanese insist that Hawaii has violated the treaty existing between
Japan and the Sandwich Islands. The Honolulu lawyers have been studying
the treaty, and insist that the immigrants had no legal right to land, and
that the treaty has not been violated.

In the mean while, the Government of Hawaii is doing all in its power to
get white laborers employed instead of Japanese on all the sugar and
coffee plantations. And as it is feared that the United States will not
care to annex the islands if all the labor is done by Asiatics and there
is no room for white men, it is trying to get Americans to go over with
their families, and is promising them steady and paying employment.

An Immigration Bureau has been opened, and every effort will be made to
get first-class American laborers to go there.

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