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Star (Christchurch), Issue 4577, 23 February 1893, Page 2

Hawaii. — The Wellington Tunes writes as follows :•— " The American annexation of Hawaii will, when it occurs— apparently a coming possibility — have a consequence "which will have to bo faced. By the American law the ocean-carrying trade between American ports is expressly limited to American bottoms. When Hawaii becomes am American port nothing can be carried between San Francisco and Ronolnlu by a foreign bottom. But the sbipßtif the Union Company— the Monowai, to wit, among them — are under American lawforeign bottoms. ConEequently they will be debarred from carrying anything between San Francisco and Honolulu. They will therefore be disqualified from taking part; in the Californian mail service. As the American law was devised for the encouragement of American ship-building, it ia not likely that the difficulty can be got over by the Union Company by any device of registering or chartering a particular ship to other people. Now neither Australia nor New Zealand can be expected to exert themselves to favour American shipbuilding. The American annexation of Hawaii, therefore, will give the projected Vancouver service the support of Australia and New Zealand."