The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1897-05-21
In Support Of the Diamond
Jubilee,
A Capital Program Decided Upon
An Address Adopted aud the
Hospital Project Endorsed
Now to Collect the Coin.

British Vice. Consul Thomas Rain
Walker presided over the meeting
of British residents last evening at
the Arlington Hotel with his usual
tact and affability and considerable
progress was made in the matters
pertaining to the celebration OF
Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee.
Several names were added to the
General Committee.
Mr.. Swauzy, chairman OF the FL
nance Committee, reported that the
collection aud promise OF funds had
not been much progressed with
owing to the uncertainty existing as
to the intentions to be carried out.
The other islands had so far not
rallied to any great extent. There
were promises and collections for
the hospital fund amounting to
nearly $4,000 and for the celebration
about 5000 When matters we're
more folly decided upon the com.
mittee would be better enabled to
60 ahead.
Mr.. Give Davies reported at
length a very excellent program for
the days of celebration which at
once met with the approval of the
meeting which discussed it freely.
Sir Robert Heron, chairman OF
the committee on address to the
Queen, reported that the address
had been prepared aud beautifully
engrossed and illuminated by Viggo
Jacobsen, to whom high praise was
accorded by several speakers. 1t
will be placed on exhibition to-
morrow.
The Address.
"To HER MOST Gracious MAJESTY,
VICTORIA, Queen OF Great Britain
and Ireland, Defender OF the
Faith, Empress OF India, Etc.
Greeting:
"May 1t Please Your Majesty:
"As a committee, appointed by a
large number of Your Majesty's
loyal subjects, resident in the
Hawaiian Islands, we desire respect
fully to approach Your Majesty on
the occasion of the completion Of
the Goth anniversary of your happy
reign to offer to you. our heartfelt
congratulations, and to give you
assurances Of our unchanging devo-
ton to your person and your throne.
SIT must be to Your Majesty, as it
is to all Your Majesty's loyal sub
jects, a source of pride and pleasure
to reflect on the many blessings
which kind Providence has vouch-
safed to the British Empire, and the
rapid advances which your people
have made in social and material
progress during Your Majesty's
glorious reign. But nothing has
contributed so much to endear you
to the hearts Of all your subjects as
the illustrious example which you
have in your own person set them
of every domestic virtue, and the
zeal which Your Majesty has always
manifested for the interests Of
religion and morality.
at is the devout prayer OF Your
Majesty's most loyal subjects in this
distant country that Your Majesty's
life may be long preserved to guide
the destinies of your great empire
with that wisdom and justice by
which Your Majesty's rule has ever
been distinguished in the past,
"We have the honor to be, Your
Majesty's faithful subjects,
dated at Honolulu, May "a, 1897"
1t was resolved that the document
should be signed propria manu- by
the Committee, and British Vice
Consul Thomas Rain Walker, as
Chairman Of the meeting and local
representative of the British Colony.
In order TO help the meeting to