The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1891-02-19
MINISTERIAL THANKS.
Tha Cabinet TeEd ers ThanHs to Ad-
mirai Brown. who Makes Reply.

The following correspondence is
published by permission of His Elk
ceIlency the Minister of Foreign
Affairs:
DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AT
FAIRS,
HONOLULU, Feb. IS, 1891. }
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On behalf of His late Majesty
Ministers, | beg to tender to you our
most sincere and heartfelt thanks for
The thoughtful attentions, scrupuIous
care and many kindnesses shown to
our late Sovereign during his visit to
California.
On His Majesty's departure from
our shores as your honored guest on
board the u. S. Flagship Charles
ton the nation and ourselves felt
that in entIusting him to your care
everything that could conduce to his
comfort and well being would be
assured, and we foudIy hoped that
the magical influences of kindly
sympathy, friendly converse and
unremitting and palnstaking devotion
to his interests, exercised with perfect
disinterestednese in a most delicate
position of solemn and severe res
possibility, would result in the re-
vered Monarch's return to his island
home with renewed health and en-
larged claims upon his peoples love
and gratitude.
But, unhapplly, in spite of the
noble and eminently satisfactory
manner in which you and the gallant
officers and men of the u. S. F. S.
"Charleston" fulfilled the under
taken duty, the unopposabIe decree
of the Supreme Ruler changed our
anticipated acclamstons of welcome
to walls of sorrow and IamentatiOn.
1t may be, nay, must be, [ feel,
some source of consolation and solace
to you to know that His Majesty's
letters, Of the most intimate char
acter, during his soiourn in CaifOr-
MIA were always full of expressions
of The highest esteem for Yourself,
personally, and grateful apprecia-
ton Of the kindly consideration
eVinced towards him, and of the
watchful and assiduous care bestowed
upon him by yourself and those under
your command or associated with
you.
Most emphaticalIy, and without
reserve, have these sentiments been
endorsed by the Hawaiian Nation in
spontaneous meetings throughout the
Islands.
When, too, alas, the sad and
solemn task was imposed upon you
by your government, our great and
cherished ally, to restore to us all
that was mortal of our King, new
debt of gratitude was incurred to
you by the Hawaiian people and our
selves for the delicate and expressive
yet magnanim0us and superb way in
which this allotted duty was dis
charged both in San Francisco and
here.
Cherished and encouraged by you
in the right path during that brief
portion Of his life happily spent with
you, nursed most affectionately with
mani compassion in his fatal sick
ness, and at length laid to rest under
the heavens he loved so fOndIy, the
name of kalakaua will he immutably
and eternaliy linked IN the affection
ate remembrance of the Hawaiian
Nation with that Of your own, the
good ship "Charleston," her officers
and men, and the officers and men
of her consort the u. S. S. "Mohi-
can"
Once again offering to you with
Overlooking hearts our most grateful
thanks, and wishing you the consum-
nation of your dearest hopes in this
life with eternal joy in that which is
to come, permit me to have the honor
on behalf of my colleagues and my
self to renew to you the assurances
of our most distinguished consider
alton and highest regard and to re-
main,
Sir,
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want,
j. A. CUhNINs,
Minister of Foreign Affairs.