Show MINISTER BEOUNT RETURNS He Believes tho Hawaiian Provisional Government Can Slaintnin Pence SAN FRANCISCO Aug 15James H Blount American minister to Hawaii exMinister to Japan FrankL Coombs and Mr Yang Chinese minister ID the United States arrived today on the steamship steam-ship Gaelic Mr Blount expresses the opinion that provisional government of Hawaii is sufficiently strong to maintain main-tain peace He declined to talk at any length A letter from Honolulu received by the same steamer says he recently took a definite stand back of the provisional government on a certain demand made by Japan That government has lately been pressing the provisional government some promise or assurance of the future of suffrage to Japanese emigrants and after counsel was taken with Mr Blount the provisional government declined to answer pending a settlement of the annexation an-nexation question bythe United States Prominent anneratlonists declare that Blount will be favorable to th establishment establish-ment of protectorate r |