The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1873-04-19
THE PACIFIC
Commercial AOOertiser.
SATERDAY. APRIL 10.

From the Government Gazette. of April lei
The Minister Resident Of the United States had
a special audience OF the King, ct noon of the l4th
last. to deliver to His Majesty a letter from the
President Of the United States, OF which the follow.
ing is a copy:
Ulysses ;. GRANT.
President Of the United States Of america,
To Hrs MAJESTY LUNALuo.
Hing Of the Ha,aiiaR Islands
GREAT AND COOP FRIEND Il have received the
letter which Your Majesty was pleased to address
to me on the I4th Of January, announcing your
election to the Sovereignty Of the Hawaiian Islands
to succeed your royal cousin the late kamebameha
the Fifth.
Permit me to congratulate Your Majesty upon
this signal proof of tie confidence reposed in you
by the people over which you have been called to
reigu, and to assure you Of my sincere desire that
the relations Of friendship which have hitherto sub
sisted between the United States and the Hawaiian
Islands shall continue undisturbed. And so | pray
God that He may have Your Majesty in His safe
and holy keeping.
Written at the city of Washington on the sixth
day of March. in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-three.
Your good friend, o. s. GRANT.
BY the President:
HAMILTON FISH, Sec'y Of State.
On that occasion, His Excellency said:
Your MAJESTY: l have been charged by my
Government with the agreeable duty of presenting
this autograph letter from the President, addressed
to Your Majesty
To which His Majesty replied
II am happy to receive this kind letter from the
President, and thank him for it. 1t is my sincere
desire that the friendly relations which have so long
existed between the Government of the great Re
public and that of my own little Kingdom, may be
perpetual. 1 congratulate the President upon his
reelection to the highest office III the gift of the
American people"
His Majesty was attended by the Minister of
Foreign Affairs, the Governor of Oahu, and the
Adjutant-GeneTal.
His Majesty has also received the following from
the Prudential Committee of the American Board
of Foreign Missions, at Boston. Mass:
MISSIONARY House. BosroN. U. (. A.,
February Ilth, 1873.
To HIS MAJESTY, LUNALILo l.:
Sire: The Prudential Committee of the Ameri-
can Board of Commissioner for Foreign Missions
congratulate you upon your accession TO the SOW
ereignly of the Hawaiian Islands, and upon the re-
markable unanimity of sentiment by which you
have been called to this high position.
by the peaceful and harmonious adjustment of
the political questions involved III so important a
change in the government, the Hawaiian people
have illustrated their right to an honorable place
among the civilized nations of the world.
The American people, aud especially those rep
resented by the American Board, will ever cherish
a lively regard for the political and social welfare
of the Hawaiian Islands.
l take special pleasure in saying that the Pru-
dental Committee feel great confidence that the in-
tprestS of education and of the Christian raIiJiau /
as the basis of national prosperity, will be gener-
ously cared for by Your Majesty, and by the dis
gentlemen whom you have invited to Il
share in your counsels.
In the hope that your reign may be an honor to
the noble line you represent, and prOmOtive of the
best interests OF all classes of the Hawaiian people,
Ia behalf Of the Prudential Committee.
\. G.. CLARK,
Foreign Secretary of the 4. B.. c. T. II.