The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1868-06-27
Close OF the Session.

THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY was prorogued on
Wednesday last by His Majesty the King in per-
son, who left the Palace at II NJ, under an escort
of military, and arrived at the hall about a quar-
ter past II. A large assemblage of ladies and
gentlemen was in attendance, the native popula-
ton being mostly excluded from the interior of
the building. The King, on his arrival, pro-
ceeded at once 20 the rostrum. and after prayer
in Hawaiian aud English
MOBILES AND REPRESENTATIVES:
The labors of your session are at an end, and
il is with sincere satisfaction that | congratulate
you on the result of your deliberations. You
have passed several laws that will promote our
trade, encourage our agriculture, and developc
the resources of our country. The sums you have
appropriated for the,public improvements, and
more especially for facilitating the means of COM
munication between the various islands of my
kingdom, and between my kingdom and Califor-
mia are ample. 1t will be my duty and that of
my Government to see that your wishes are car
ried out.
ward myself l thank you.
Your sOlicitude for the moral and physical well
fare of my people has been evidenced by the gen.
crous appropriations you have voted for the ex-
penses Of the Board of Education and Board of
Health.
% lslEc given klll-l1cIlOI 10 Il Whit long lett
in this country, in providing for the training of
Hawaiian children in medical practice, and in
regulating the exercise of that profession amongst
competent Uawaiians.
am happy to see that the policy of introducing
immigrants of a kindred race has received your
hearty corporation, and that you have passed n
law, and provided the means, to enable my Gov
eminent To carry out this most important measure.
The Session has been comparatively short, and
| have remarked with deep satisfaction, that al
though differing in opinion on n few questions,
YOU were unanimous in your feelings of love for
our country and of loyalty to your Sovereign.
MOBILES AND REPRESENTATIVES,
On your return to your friends and constituents,
convey 10 them my good wishes and my hope that,
with the blessing of God Almighty, peace and
prosperity will continue To abide with Us. You
viii carry with you the Consciousness of having
done your best to contribute to our common wei
fare.
And l do now declare the Legislative Assembly
OF the Kingdom prorogucd-
No other business was done, and after the
reading of the address, His Majesty retired, and
the assemblage dispersed the whole proceedings
hardly occupying ten minutes.
The King, it will be observed, heartily en-
dorses the action of the Assembly on the sub
sidy of foreign and inter-island steam lines.
Indeed the foreign subsidy would never have
been passed, had it not received his decided sup
port from the first, for there was one time when
the majority was quite strong against the measure.
Another act, to which he approvingly refers,
il the large appropriation for education. The
principle adopted by this Legislature of voting
funds for public schools regardless of the special
income for that object, is a sound one, and will
probably be followed in future and we hope
that the good sense of the nation Will ere long
TO abolish this and other special taxes
per capita, and resort to the more equita-
bic mode of taxing property.
lie also indorses the large appropriations for
the Beard of Health and for the encouragement
Of immigration, but more especially those of a
kindred race, probably referring to Polynesian
natives, as neither Chinese or japanese are ac-
knowledged to be such. On the whole the adj
iress is acceptable, and has been well received.