House Ex. Doc. No. 112, Fifty-third Congress, second session. 
 
MESSAGE 
FROM THE 
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, 
TRANSMITTING 
Further correspondence relating to the Hawaiian Islands, 
FEBRUARY 13, 1894.-Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations,
and 
ordered to be printed. 
The Congress: 
I transmit herewith two dispatches, received a few days ago, from our 
minister at Hawaii, and a reply to one of them from the Secretary 
of State, in which a correct version is given of an interview which 
occurred November 14, 1893, between the Secretary of State and Mr. 
Thurston, representing the Provisional Government at Washington. 
GROVER CLEVELAND. 
EXECUTIVE MANSION, 
Washington, February 12, 1884. 
Mr. Willis to Mr. Gresham. 
(Confidential.] 
No. 28.]               LEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES, 
Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands, January 16, 1894. 
SIR: On last Thursday, January 11, by a vote of 7 to 2, the 17th 
day of January, being the first anniversary of the Provisional Govern- 
ment, was declared a public holiday. 
On yesterday afternoon the representatives of foreign governments 
received invitations to "participate in the observance of the day."

Subsequently, the British minister, Maj. Wodehouse; the Portuguese 
charge "daffaires and consul-general, Senhor Canavarro; the diplo- 
matic agent and consul-general of Japan, Monsieur Fujii, together 
with Monsieur Vizzavona, chancellor and acting commissioner ot 
France, called to inquire what reply the U. S. diplomatic agent would 
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