Navigation Company of Shanghai, China, in view of establishing and developing commercial and postal relations between the Chinese Empire and the Sandwich Islands, where over 12,000 of Chinese subjects have emigrated, and other Chinamen very likely will emigrate in the future (free emigration being an inherent and inalienable right of man), thus necessitating a direct and permanent intercourse with their fatherland said company has decided, to run a line o steamers from Canton, China, to Honolulu, Eawatian Islands, and probably extending it to San Francisco, California, provide the Hawaiian Government will concede to this new line of steamers from China the
by the Australian line—I mean the subsidy sky a8 now enjoyed appropriated by Act of the General Assombly of the Kingdom, approved the 5th day of August, 1878, for foreign steamship Tines-~36,000 dollars biennially.
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