The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1876-10-07
: I2.2747 IS Loss.
CLOSE OF THE SESSION.

Herewith will end our 90 Legislative Jottings, -
which have been a feature of the paper for five
months. On Saturday last the final act of the
play-call it farce or comedy, 6 as you like it"
was concluded, the curtain fell, and eruent
oDlnes.
\ brief session was held at half-past 10 O'Clock,
when the Committee on Enrolled bills reported
a number that had received the Royal assent,
besides several which had been rejected, notably
among the latter being the bill to reduce the
poll-tax to twenty-five cents. 1t was too late to
make another attempt on this much-debated
measure, and so the Hon. Mr.. Kaai, its pro-
moter, made a pretty little speech and offered a
resolution, which was carried mem. con-, thank
ing His Majesty's Ministers for the courteous
manner in which they had comported themselves
and their industry and zeal in the discharge OF
their duties, and expressing the hope that the
laws which had been passed would prove to be
for the bet interests of the country and people.
Nobody seemed to take this resolution at all
in a Pikwickian sense, and the Minister for
Foreign Affairs returned thanks for his col
leagues and himself, expressing the belief that
wherein they had differed in opinion from MEM
bers it had been an honest difference ON both
sides, and trusting that whatever had been said
in the heat of debate that ought not to have
been said would be forgotten. And in conclu-
sion His Excellency politely expressed his regrets
that His Majesty's advisers had been compelled,
by their sense of duty, to recommend the re-
fusal of the executive assent to a good many
bills that had been passed by the Assembly.
This was certainly all very amiable, and the cir
Gle of mutual admirers adjourned to meet again
at II o'clock.
Before the latter hour the Hall was eomforta-
bly, filled with ladies and gentlemen, the Kings
Ministers, the Mobiles and Representatives occu-
pying seats in front of the dais, the ladies of
the court on the right and the Diplomatic and
Consular corps on the left. The military, under
command of Major Gulick and Lieut.. Makanui,
we're drawn up in line in front of the building.
At precisely noon, a battery in the Palace yard
announced the Kings departure from the Palace,
and a few minutes thereafter their Majesties the
King and Queen and Prince Leleiohoku entered
the Hall from the room of the Minister of the
Interior and took their positions on the dais, the
audience rising as the Royal party entered.
After a brief but eloquent prayer by the Rev. H..
II. Parker, His Majesty read in a clear and dis
tinct tone, the following speech, proroguing the
Legislative Assembly of 1876.
MOBILES AND REPRESENTATIVES: [ con-
graduate YOU upon the termina ton of an I'M
usually protracted session, and l desire to
express my appreciation of the services of all
those gentlemen, whether Mobiles or Repre-
sentatives, who, at considerable personal
sacrifice, have devoted their time to Legisla-
tive duties.
The appropriations which you have made
for the different branches of the Government
are on a liberal scale, and it will now be the
duty of my Ministers to see that the several
sums are spent economically, and go as to
secure the greatest possible advantage TO the
Kingdom.
trust that the laws which You have en-
acted will be productive of all the benefits
which you anticipate, and amongst the reso-
buttons which it has pleased you to pass, l
look forward with hope to the good effects
which may spring from the one by which you
recommend the Appointment of Commissioners
to devise Ways and Means to arrest the de-
cay and decrease of the original Hawaiian
race.
/ cannot omit also to express my gratiica-
ton that during your session everything has
been accomplished to carry into effect the Re-
ciprocity Convention with the United States
of America, a convention which must result
in increased prosperity to the Nation and
which should materially aid in preserving the
Hawaiian race, by Offering TO the people an
incentive to industry one of the surest means
of preserving health and long life.
I have to thank you for the liberal provision
which you haze made for myself and family.
MOBILES AND REPRESENTATIVES, When