THE HAWAIIAN ANNEXATION QUESTION.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2492, 20 April 1893, Page 4

THE HAWAIIAN ANNEXATION QUESTION.

Princess Kaiulane, nieco of the deposed Queen Lilinokolani, of Hawaii, arrived by the steamer Teutonic at New York, from London, oil March Ist. With her wero Theophilus Davies and Mrs Davies, the English guardians of the princess. They were received by ex-minister McFarlaue and Dr Mott Smith, the Hawaiian Minister to tho United States. The princess is eighteen years old. She is a tall, beautiful young woman, with a sweet face and graceful, slender figure. She has the soft brown eyes and dark complexion that mark the Hawaiian beauty. She has come to the United States, she said, more for the purpose of learning and observing for herself the nature of the people who had been asked to take control of her country than to make a formal petition for her crown. " That," she said, "is rightfully mine, and if the Americans are tho nobleminded people I think they are they will not be a party to the outrage by which I have lost my birthright." In regard to her views on the various aspects which the Hawiian Government is likely to assume, Princess Kaiulane referred to her guardian, Mr Davies, but she issued the following address to the American people, " I stand upon your shores to-day where I thought so soon to receive a royal welcome on my way to my own kingdom. 1 come unattended, except by the loving heavts that have come with me over the wintry seas. I hear the Commissioners come from my land have been for many days asking this nation to take away my little vineyard. They spoke no word to me, and leave me to find out as I can from the rumours in the that they would leave me without a home, a name, or a nation. Seventy years ago Christian America sent over Christian men and women to give Christianity and civilisation to the Hawaiians. They gave us gospel; they made us a nation, and we learned to love and trust America. To-day three of the sons of those missionories are at your capital asking you to undo their fathers' work. Who sent them ? Who gave them authority to break the Constitution which they swore they would uphold '? To-day lam a poor weak girl, with not one of rny people near me, and all these Hawaiian statesmen against me. I have strength to stand up for the rights of my people. Even now I can hear their wail in my heart, and it gives me strength and courage, and I am strong in the faith of God, strong in the knowledge that I am right, strong in the strength of seventy millions of people, who in their free land will hear my cry, and will refuse to lot their flag cover dishonour to mine." The annexation of the islands will be a subject for consideration by Mr Cleveland's administration, as the one just on the eve of going out has washed its hands of it with a feeling akin to regret that such haste had been shown and such length reached.