The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1873-01-25
RECEPTION AT THE PALACE.

HIS Majesty held a Court al Iolani Palace on We'd
nesIay. at IL o'clock a. NJ. to receive the Represent
stives and Consuls Of Foreign Governments.
Mr.. Peirce, United States Minister Resident. Mr..
lie Monnyer, Commissioner AMI Consul fer the Re-
public Of France. Mr.. Davies, II. D. MS Acting
Commissioner and Consul, and Mr.. Pernet, ChAncel-
lier Of tie Consulate Of France, were presented to
His Majesty, and on behaif Of the Diplomatic Corps,
Mr.. Peirce addressed His Majesty as follows:
Your MAJESTY On behalf Of the members Of
the Diplomatic Corps, as well as for myself. II be-
comes my pleasing duty 10 tender sincere and re-
spectful congratulations on your accession TO the
Hawaiian Throne
do 50 with the more confidence in view Of the
assurances contained ia Your Majesty's speech 10
the Legislature, indicating that the wise aud liberal
policy pursued by your predecessors towards foreign
ers within -FOUR dominiOns, will be cherished by
Your Majesty's Government, and moreover that a
generous encouragement is to be given to Commerce
AMI Agriculture
These, with the stability Of Your Majesty's Throne,
so happily assured by the free choice of your people,
afford just ground for the hope that under Your
Majesty's reign, this country will make renewed
progress in material prosperity.
May the amicable relations subslsting between this
Government aud those represented by US respectively,
continue unimpaired.
God grant to Your Majesty, a long and prosper
Gus reign.
To which His Majesty replied:
YOUR ENCELLENCY The friendly sentiments that
you have expressed on behalf of yourself and your
colleagues of the Diplomatic Corps are very grateful
10 me.
Representing as you DO. gentlemen, the three
great powers with which my Government has long
est had friendly and Diplomatic relations, II is espe-
cially pleasing TO me to know, now at the ommence-
ment Of my Reign, that the most amicable relations
exist between your respective Governments and my
own, and that L have every reason 10 hope for q con-
tinuance Of the kindly interest entertained towards
myself. nv Government and DeODle. which has been
50 happily referred 10.
1t is my wish to foster and encourage Agriculture
and Commerce, and to establish in the minds Of for
eigners having business interests throughout the
group, as well as in the minds of my native subjects,
such u degree of confidence in the stability and
security OF my Government as will give encourage
ment to every honest and useful enterprise. And to
this end, gentlemen, | shall III Il great degree rely in
the future, as my predecessors have in the past,
upon the good will and moral support of the en-
lightened and influential nations Of which you are
the respected Representatives.
The following named Consuls were then presented
c. S. Nation, United States E. Hoffman,, Austro-
Hungarian J. C. Glade, (Acting) Empire of Ger
many and of Sweden and Norway J. W. PAuger,
(Acting> Vice Consul for Russia F. A. Schaefer,
Italy F. Banning, Belgium and the Netherlands
c. +. Pfuger, (Acting) Denmark \. ]. Cartwright,
Peru j. S. Christie. Jr., U. s. Vice Consul C. S.
Barlow, Chile.
DIR. Z. Hoffman, made an address to His Majesty
on behalf of the Consular Corps as follows
SIRE With your gracious permission, the foreign
Consuls. representing the commercial interests of
their several flags in Your Maiesty's dominions, de-
sire to present to Your Majesty their most respectful
congratulations upon year happy accession to the
Throne of your honOred ancestors under such prom
Using auspices for the future of your Kingdom.
Recognizing the important geographical position
Of Your Majesty's Kingdom in its relations to the
interests they represent. the Consular Corps ~felicitate
themselves in the hope, that in their endeavors to
foster and promote commercial intercourse with the
countries whose flags they have the honor to repre-
sent, they will, as heretofore, enjoy the confidence
and cooperation of Your Majesty's Government.
We beg to express our earnest hope, taat the reign
of Your Majesty may be long and prosperous.
The King replied in the following terms
GENTLEMEN 1t gives me pleasure to receive your
congratulations, and l am satisfied that you have
not only a friendly regard for myself, but that you
are DESTROYS for the promotion of all of the material
and social interests of my Kingdom. as well as the
interests of foreign commerce which you more
directly represent.
Your connection with the trade and commerce Of
so many nations, and your thorough acafG intanct
the soil aud the peculiarities of the climate of these
islands, eminently fits you for making valuable sug-
gestiOns, for aiding in the development of CONNER
cial enterprises, and for promoting n free and profit.
you so intelligently represent, and my own. And
while l shall endeavOr. through my Government. to
protect, foster and increase all legitimate commerce
l shall hope for your liberal and earnest cooperation.
L wish you, gentlemen, an abundant prosperity,
and an agreeable official intercourse.
Mr.. j. c. Johnson, special correspondent of the
.4Ita California newspaper, of San Francisco, was
then presented to His Majesty by the American
Minister.
At a quarter before II o'clock His Majesty re
ceived the Minister Resident OF the United States
Rear Admiral Pennock, Commanding the U. S
North Pacific Squadron, Major-General Schofeld
Brigadier-Genera Alexander, and the following
named officers of the U. S. Ships California ant
Benecia
J. C. P. de Kraft, Captain U. S. S. California
w. B. Hoh, Lieut.. Commander; E. L. Amory, Lieut..
Samuel Ames, Master; J. G. Burnett, Assistant Pay
master; John Walton Ross, Assistant Surgeon. A
G. Clary, Captain L. S. S. Benecia; W. II. Whiting
Lieut. Commander; Edwin Putnam, Paynaster; II
5. Pitkin, Past Asst. Surgeon.
All of whom were presented to His Majesty. Rea,
Admiral Pennock made the following address:
MAY IT PLEASE YOUR MAJESTY -
1t is with great pleasure that l avail myself of thi
occasion to convey to your Majesty my sincere con
gratulations upon your happy accession to tn
Throne of the Hawaiian Islands.
1t affords me great satisfaction to assure you
Majesty of the kind sentiments of the Government
of the United States towards the government anC
people of these Islands, and I trust that these friendl,
sentiments may steadily increase and be manifested
in their beneficial influence upon the people anC
commerce of the two nations.
As an evidence of the friendly interest of m,
government towards that over which your Majestl
has been called TO preside, it is my pleasing duty Il
state that the Government of the United State
having been informed that His late Majesty Kane
hameha V. ~purposed visiting Europe, and to that enC
would pass through the territory of the Unitet
States, at once directed me to place my Flag Ship
the California, at the disposition of His Majesty anc
suite, and to convey him with the honors due to hi
high rank to San Francisco, where preparations wer
TO be made to receive and to convey him to such o
our Atlantic ports as he might be pleased TO select a
his point Of departure for the Continent of Europe.
was on the point of sailing from San Francisco t
accomplish this pleasing duty, when the mail steame
from Honolulu brought the news of the suddel
death of His Majesty, which unlocked for event de
prived the Government of the United States of tn