Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, For the Year 1887, Transmitted to Congress, With a Message of the President, June 26, 1888

No. 363.
Mr. Hastings to Mr. Bayard.

[Extract.]

Legation of the United States,
Honolulu, December 27, 1886. (Received January 31, 1887.)

No. 93.]

Sir: I have the honor to report that on the 22d instant, Hon. John E. Bush was commissioned by His Majesty the King as minister plenipotentiary to the Kings of Samoa and Tonga, and the independent chiefs and peoples of Polynesia.”

Mr. Bush is a half-caste Hawaiian of considerable ability, a member of the house of nobles and at one time a member of the cabinet as minister of interior.

He left here for Samoa on the 26th instant, taking with him a secretary of legation and two attaches.

I have, etc.,

Frank P. Hastings.