The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-04-15
Investiture Of the Baron Won Mueller,
KONG. MD, P.HD., FRS, &C.,
SC, as a Knight Companion of the
Royal Order of Kalakaua.


tinguished professor Of botanical science has
rendered to Hawaii by his generous donations
Of seeds and cuttings of trees and plants of COM
mercial and sanitary value, and of volumes
descriptive of the progress of his favorite pur-
suit in all parts Of the known world, have been
gratefully recognised by the bestowal upon him
by His Majesty the King of the diploma and
insignia creating him knight Companion of
the Royal Order Of Kalakaua l. The recipiS,-t
of this honor il a gentleman whom every civi yed
nation holds in the first esteem. He is pr y,
mt the present moment the most decorated civil
lian in the world, holding as he does, over twenty
ORDERS, most of them of the highest degree,
from all its principal Soyereigns. He IS a MEM
Der corresponding and active of the principal
learned and philosophical societies of all nations,
and u savant whose opinions deferred to by
the leading men Of science throughout Europe. 1t
is with pleasure therefore, that we observe that
His Majesty has rivetted the attachment to
Hawaii, which the Baron has ever evinced, by
generous act which appears to be most hicaly
appreciated.
The ceremony of investitare was performed
in His Majestys name by his Consul at Mel
bourne, Mr. Il. N. Oakley, the 20th of March
last when Mr. Oakley, who had waited upon
the Baron officially for the purpose, prefaced
the presentation of the Order by the following
remarks -
ssBAROS VoS MUELLER,-I have been COM
missioned by my Sovereign the King of the
Hawaiian Islands to present to yOu in his name
and that of the Hawaiian people, the expression
Of the thankful appreciation with which your
many generous gifts to Hawaii have been received.
While recognizing that words and honorary
titles Of distinction but inadequate express
siOns of gratitude for the services you have rem
dered not only to this, but to future generations
of Hawaiians, / deputed by His Majesty to
tender yOu his thanks for the many generous
Gifts made not in your official capacity Botanist
To the Government of Victoria, but from your
private means with which you have endowed
His Kingdom, and the zeal and solicitude you
have evinced IN promoting Its interests.
As n testimony of that appreciation, His
Majesty has been pleased, by Letters Patent
under his own hand, to create you Knight
Companion of His Royal Order of kalakaua,
and has commissioned me. as his representative
in this colony. to invest you with the insignia
pertaining to IT.
1t affords me the highest pleasure to well
come you in His Majesty's name, to the Most
Royal and Noble COmpanionship of the Knights
Of the Order Of kalakaua-'
To this the Baron replied in the following
terms
1T Is impossible for me. Mr.. Consul, to ex-
press IN adequate terms my emotion of gratitude
called fo-th by the gracious act of your Sovereign
OF hOnrring me with n membership OF his Royal
Orti@r 0f Kalakaua- Al i am conscious that
had no claims the generous consideration of
His Hawaiian Majesty, / must attach to this
graceful Gift from his Throne a value all the
Greater and I will endeavor, hencefOrth, to
b,r, more extensively in advancing the resources
Of those grandly beautiful Hawaiian Islands
which by their geographic position, their serene
cline and their natural capabilities, are assum-
ino, already such importance in the history of
world. To my mind there - something
arming in the efforts 20 transfer to the prmeval
regions of youthful States the natural treasures
IL Hl4 a
,,arI1unbIe pride Of mine when sought To be
the first IN translOc.stIng many Of the vegetable
ricbes of Her Britannia MaIesty's Australian
dominions through long series OF years To other
Ior1s never missing opportunities for enriching
so far as within my reaeh-the Australian
colonies from abroad likewise In cosmopolitan
views, which / ever held most ezPansIveiy.
have aIways thought We here more particularly
,y..a TINS merely repaying portion of the great
debt which Australia owes to the world ut large
in beiug enabled to establish vast pastural and
AGRICULTURAL wealth IN regions which without the
herds and hocks and without the cereals, fruits,
and other vegetables from elsewhere, would ever
have remained vastly unproductive- In exer-
tions for adding also, perhaps, somewhat TO the
rs-ources of the Hawaiian Islands, nothing
cCnI5 be more encouraging here than the en-
Fr,bteued interest evinced always by yCu honored
sir in promoting objects of such kind, and
nothing could surPass the readiness ever shown
Lv Won to facilitate any transmisslons or any IN
formation through the Consular office which
YOU maintain with so much ability, zeal, and
dionity To me IL viii be always pleasing 10
ogsC.iate in NV thoughts the investiture Of the
Orler which on behalf His Hawaiian Majesty,
Won carried out gracefully, with the great
distinction itself bestowed me from your
Sov4reign's Throne and beg of you now yet
,,orticuiariy to assure the King, through His
EvceIIency the Minister of Foreign Affairs, that
shall aIWays consider it privilege To be useful
to countries which, like the Hawaiian dominions,
have so much in common as regards rural IN
tarssts with our far southern portion of the
gIobe here and which, through commerce and
WiseIy-orgnnized public institutions, are SO IN
timateIy linked to the Australian colonies
A LADY having heard that the force expended
nv the women OF the civilized world IN talking
scandal would furnish sufficient power to turn
100 900 600 900 spindes, retOrted that II the
Toree expended by men in Dragging about their
a ,gs and horses at iree-lunch counters was used,
il would give power enough to to keep an electric