The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-11-13
BYRNESO ON Hawaii
The Queensland Diplo.
mat Talked of Hawaii.
Delightful Lecture by Visitor tc
HaWaii-Country Should Re-
main Neutral.

observations on VISIL 10 hawaii
was the subject of lecture delivered
in the Theatre Royal on Monday by
the Hon. T. J. Byrnes, says the Queens
lander of Oct. II. The lecture was Civ
en- under the most favorable auspices,
and in distinguished presence, Lord
Harrington and suite occupying the
patrons being Archbishop Dunno, Sir
s. w Griffith, CT, Mr.. Justice Real,
several members of the Ministry, many
members of Parliament, cleric repre-
sentatives, and leading citizens. The
theatre, indeed, was filed to overflow
ing, even the passage ways being
thronged with persons, who had to be
satisfied with standing room.
Mr. Byrnes was warmly greeted. He
prefaced his remarks with apologies for
prospective shortcomings = apologies
which in the light of subsequent events
were quite unnecessary. For Mr..
Byrnes proved himself an excellent lee
turer His faculty for grasping facts
and figures, and closing them with
interesting language, as we'll as his
lecture both entertaining and instruc-
tive. The, again, he had apt illustra-
lions and incidents of travel to relate,
which, being we'll told, fittingly de-
scribed the people of other lands and
on shipboard and their characteristics;
while the photograph slides from which
limelight views were obtained were
such as to make those present almost
forget that they were not in reality
identified with parliamentary pill
grims,' whom Mr.. Byrnes designated
we and who were shown, at the out
set, through the medium OF the magic
lantern to be the Premier, the Hon. r.
Philip, and Mr.. Byrnes himself. The
importance of the islands themselves
was never once forgotten. Whenever
an opportunity presented itself he en-
phaSised the point. Apart from their
scenic beauties, their general produc-
tiveness, and their immense value to
the world of commerce, their geogra-
phical position, which placed them be-
tween us and Canada, and in direct
line with an aggressive Eastern Power
gave them an import which under or
binary circumstances might readily be
overlooked. The recent political up
heaval there, and the attitude assumed
by. the political parties in the States,
made it more than ever necessary that
Hawaii should remain a neutral State,
and Mr.. Byrnes went so far as to pre-
dict that ere long the Hawaiian Group
must be the theatre of stirring events.
TN Err1I 1n6 a
tistics were cleverly interlarded with
the description of the voyage and peo-
pie and places In imagination Mr..
Byrnes took his hearers from Bris-
bane to Sydney, then to Samoa and Ha-
wall, and, having landed at Honolulu,
introduced them to the public and exc
cutive buildings, to the gardens, and
then to the mountains and verdure-
clad valleys intervening, as well as to
the deposed Queen Liliuokalani, and
| her palace, to gOups of Hula dancers,
and other types of Hawaiian beauty.
| Thence he took them in fancy short
coastal journey, past Diamond Head,
which afforded opportunity for the in
PRODUCTION of some pretty native le-
gends, on to Cocoanut Island, with its
avenues of tropical palms and other
stages he guided them over the lava
flows of Mauna Loa, to the crater of
Kilauea, and to Halemaumau, 'The
home of fire" Having done this, the
party said their farewells to a people
whom they had learned to love, and
returned, as Mr.. Byrnes put it, to the
land they loved best-Queensland In
addition to the limelight views, which
were worked by Messrs. J. and J. G..
Colledge, the lecture was further illus
trated by three native songs and
choruses-''Like no Like" Cor ever
and ever the same), Malanai anu ka
Makani'' (Soft murmuring breezes),
and aloha De" (FarewelD, the latter
composed by ex-Queen Liliuokalani.
These songs were given in the native
tongue by a choir behind the scenes
under the direction of Mr.. Seymour
DECKER. The lecture, which was in aid
of the building fund of st. Joseph 5
Church Kangaroo Point, occupied
about two hours in delivery, and was
listened to most attentively. Mr..
Byrnes was frequently applauded