The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-02-24
EDITORIALS.
DAILY, February 1917

p The three great powers, the United
States, England and France, have notably
honOred the occasion OF the coronation
of their Majesties, King Kalakaua and
Queen Kapiolani. There was no Off
ciaI announcement of the event to
foreign governments except in the
form of a circular addressed to diplo-
matte and consular agents residing
here There was not a single invitation
{ sent from the Foreign Office or from any
other governmental source to any Kaiser,
King, President, Prince or other potentate
whosoever to attend the ceremonies of
the Coronation. Our special envoy,
who was sent to Japan, went solely
and avowedly on especial business
connected with immigration, and it was
only incidentally that an invitation
was extended to the Japanese sover-
eign to attend the crowning of their Ma
j~esties. Yet notwithstanding that no es-
peciaI efforts were made to have the
generally known throughout the
? world, and that no pressing invitations for
sr. the presence of distinguished personages
have been issued, still our little State has
been considerably honored in this p%articu-
sa lar. Two ships of war of our great con-
tinental neighbor came expressly by order
of its Government and their commanders,
Captain Wilson and Commander Pearson,
NGAG CoPCCAAhJ VIZ
n7occasIon Of our national ceremonial. The
same is to be said of the presence of Her
Britannia Majesty's ship Mutine in our har-
Dor. Her Commander Edwards comes here
= : by special orders, and Captain Chateau
minois of the French war-ship Limier de-
elares officially to His Majesty, that, but for
the excessive draft Of his iron-cladf flagship,
the gallant French Admiral of the Pacific
would have unfurled his broad pennant in
a.
Coronation. The men-of-war in the har-
Dor on the day of that event were what we
may call an honorary coronation fleet The
gallant officers, who command these ships
have, with marked courtesy and respect,
not only as dignified representative officers
but as superior gentlemen, honored the GER
emony Of the browning of their Majesties,
the King and Queen. The presence of the
japanese Embassy was regarded as a mani
a ~festation of especial honor and respect from
an enlightened Asiatic potentate to his
brother Sovereign of Polynesia. The
King of Siam sent Fluctuations and
cordial expressions of good will to
his former royal visitor, and, in view of
the forthcoming Coronation, expressed his
Royal pleasure and satisfaction. At the
same time our Foreign Office received as
surances from the Foreign Office at Bang
kok, Siam, that the Siamese Prince Pris-
dang, now in Europe, had been instructed
by his sovereign to order in Paris decora-
tions of the Royal Siamese Order of the
Crown OF Siam to be presented to the MEM
bers of our Royal Family and the officers of
our Government as evidence of the cordial
friendship of the King of Siam to His Ma
jesty of Hawaii, and to mark or COM
memorate the event of the Coronation.
Thus much has happened of official vista
tions and of expressions of consideration
from abroad, without any effort or %sOlicita-
ton on the part of this Government. Such
ts has been the cordial and, it may be said,
spontaneous demonstrations of good will
and respect from great States to our small
realm. Powerful and magnanimous ma
tions in their exercise of national courtesy
do not for n moment consider the
relative condition or power of other States,
90 but, rs we have seen ut the capital of the
Great Republic, the representative of the
smallest nation was allowed TO have pre-
cedence over those of all other States, and
when he fell in death, the festivities of a
great capital were stayed with sorrow, and
representative of mighty States bore the
pail over the remains of our Minister.
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