The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-02-06

| IA spect to the memory of Queen
IA Victoria will take place on Fri
day at o'clock in Kawaiahao
lchurch. All the arrangements for the
service have been made by the commit
tee of British residents, of which w.
G. Irwin is chairman. The Territorial
Government will take cognizance of the
day and will close all offices during the
afternoon.
Governor Dole will be present to rep
resent the Territory and the band un-
der Captain Berger will render suita-
BILE music. The following letter from
the Governor contains his acceptance
of the committees invitation:
EXECUTIVE. CHAMBER.
Territory of Hawaii
w. G. Irwin, Esq, Chairman of Com
Sir: 1 have received your letter of
February 4th, stating that a committee,
appointed at a meeting of British resi-
dents held at the British Consulate, sug-
gest Friday, the Sth inst, as suitable
day for memorial services in memory
of her late Majesty Victoria, Queen of
the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland and Empress of India, to be
held at o'clock p m. at the Kawaiahao
Church, and asking if the said date
meets with my approval. the assistance
of the Territorial band at such services,
and such other recognition as may be
deemed appropriate for the Government.
| Permit me to say in reply that the
date suggested is agreeable to the Gov
lernment, and that Government Offices
will be closed and official flags raised to
lhalf-mast[ at noon of Friday next in ex-
preston of the respect of the people of
this country for the late Queen and En-
nd hIy fhe
British nation in its great bereavement.
| 1t will give me pleasure to place the
band at the service of your committee
! on the occasion mentioned and 1 have
Iinstructeds Captain Berger to that effect.
/ am, sir, very respectfully,
SANFORD B. DOLE.
| Besides the services at Kawaiahao on
Friday there will also be a commemor-
ative service at ST. Andrews cathedral
| on Sunday. Bishop Willis was asked
by the committee to formulate and ar
range form of service for the Kawaia-
hao memorial at which he will preside.
This Bishop Willis declined to do. He
says that he believes the united service
should be held at the cathedral and nos
at Kawaiahao. The committee was led
| to give the preference to Kawaiahao
| over the cathedral on account of the
superior seating capacity of the former.
! Bishop Willis has written the follow
lowing letter to the Advertiser stating
/ his position in the matter:
Editor Advertiser: Will you allow me
/ space for correction. In your report
Iof the meeting of the committee of Brit
lish residents on Monday afternoon, at
which it was resolved to hold COM
memorative service in kawaiahao
Church, it is stated to have been further
lresolved that "the Bishop should be re-
quested to formulate such service, and
! to offciate at it himself" This is not
quite correct. The letter handed to me
by a committee of the British residents
lcommittee between and o'clock on
Monday afternoon, to which / was asked
/ to give an immediate verbal reply, COM
municated to the decision arrived at
! in the following words: THAT COM
imemoration should be held at Kawaia-
hao Church at 2 p. m. on Friday next,
1.-THE Sth inst, and that your Lordship
should be respectfully requested to Off
lciate at a suitable religious service on
THAT occasion for which the committee
are prepared to make musical and other
arrangements" 1t will be observed that
the committee not only did not ask me
to formulate the service, but expressly
RETAINED in their own hands very large
part of such formulation, the musical
ana OtNeF arrangements UeiHS oil III
definite expression capable Of covering
the whole program. The invitation was
respectfully declined. At that date five
full days had elapsed since the mournfui
Itidings of Her Majesty's decease reach
ed us, and the form of a service for
solemn memorial in st. Andrews Cathe-
dral was in the hands Of the printer. For
I should say here that in order that
there might be no misunderstanding,
stated plainly at the meeting of British
residents at the British Consulate on
Saturday that a memorial service would
be held in St. Andrews Cathedral; not
to do so would be an everlasting dis
grace to the Anglican Church in Hawaii
whatever other commemoration the
meeting might decide to hold As for
the alleged incapacity of the Cathedral
to accommodate those who wish to at
tend, we are prepared to receive 600 per-
sons on Sunday afternoon. and more, II
some will not mind standing for eighty
minutes. ALFRED WILLIS
A united memorial service IN honor
of Queen Victoria will be held next