The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-09-18

growing
He is enthusiastic about the fair pro
posed in San Francisco to celebrate the
completion of the Panama Canal and
says Japan viii have the best exhibit
here ever sent out of his country
WI TING FANG. probably the most
popular minister that China ever sent
to the United States, is to head the
Chinese delegation to The Hague per
manent court of arbitration Minister
Calhoun has cabled to the state depart
ment that the delegates will be WI
Ting Fang. Hu Wei 70, Lin Shin hsun
and Mr.. Won den Hauvel.
HUI Wei To was formerly minister
to Russia, then to Japan, and only re
Gently was transferred to the foreign
office at Picking. Liu Shih- hsun is the
present Chinese minister to France, Mr..
Won den Hauvel is a Belgian. formerly
minister of Justice and Belgian pleni-
potentiary to the second Hague peace
conference
THE PROVINCIAL ASSEMBLY of
kwang Tung. China, is in the state of
formation and the Honolulu Chinese
may soon be called upon to elect repre-
sentatives to it as all the foreign Chi
nese communities are so doing.
In Canada lately, Hun Guam of
Ottawa and Lee Mon How of Mon
treal were elected the delegates to this
assembly. This election marks a bio
epoch in the history of the Chinese En-,
| pire, as the assembly to which the two
members were elected is to he tho
nucleus OF constitutional government
| TO be known as the national assembly
| 1t is expected that when the movement
| IS complete it will turn the Chinese Em-
pre- from an absolute monarchy into a
CONSTITUTE nally governed country. The
| polllng took place all over Canada.
i Manitoba and the West electing two
/ members also.
THE CHINESE CONSTITUTIONAL
movement has other phases besides tbat
| or the so-cailed popular assembly ,
oeoree mas lately been issued annonnc
ing the election of the members of
ne" nodv. which, for lack Of a NOR,
strlcely accurate description, is known
as the senate
According to the decree, this assem-
piy, whose Chinese title is the tzechen
yuan, consists of 81 members. repre-
sentlng SIX different classes. and OWNS
their appointment to selection bv tn,
throne
Thus the princes and mobiles of tn,
imperial clans supply fourteen mem
bers. the Manchu and Chinese nobiIit,
twelve. the princes and mobiles of tn,
dependencies outside the eighteen prov
1nces, seventeen, and the imperial
ciansmen six, officials of ministries auC
officers, thirtytwo, and eminent schol
airs, ten.
Leaving out of account the Seventeen
princes and mobiles of dependencies
there are thirty nine Manchu names
against thlrty-tive Chinese. But it i
anticipated that the balance of powe
Will he even more strong in favor Of
the Name hus than the figures indica te
because the bulk of Chinese representa-
tlves are drawn from the official anC
scholarly ranks, and can hardly be ex
pected to exercise the same iniuenc,
in the assembly's counseIs as tn,
princes. mobiles and gentry of the i'm
perial clans.
October 3 has been fixed for the open
ing of the first session. but the mem
bers are to assemble before that datt
to make all preparations satisfactoril,
for the Inauguration.
s. BAN, a japanese capitalist o.
j Portland. Oregon. by purchasing l50'
feet frontage below Linton. has takeI
the first important step toward esta b
fishing one of the largest lumber anC
furniture plants on the Pacific Coast.
Negotiations for the purchase of thu
frontage had been pending for som'
time. The transfer of the property
consisting of twelve acres, was mad
recently, the consideration being Sl4,
600.
Mr. Ban and associates plan to built
two sawmlls. one for preparing thu
hardwood material for the manufacture
of furniture and the other for turnn,
out Oregon fir for the export trade.