MISSION WORK IN THE ISLANDS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 32, 7 February 1905, Page 6

MISSION WORK IN THE ISLANDS.

! (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) I WEILUNGTON, Monday. At Trinity and Wesleyan Churches yesterday, the Rev. A. ... Crump, of _vcw Britain, gave addresses-on. his work tis a missionary anion" the natives in the Pacific inlands. Mr Crump, who is a Now Zi'alander, was assisted at the services by it native teacher from New JJrrluln. Hitherto the work of preaiehir.jj the Cos-pel to a million ami a-half islanders has been (tarried on by the Churches of Australasia. The Methodist Church is now endeavouring to raise £10.000 for missionary enterprise in New Guinea. Now Lrelaiwl, the Solomon Islands. Now Britain, Fiji. Samoa, and amongst the 25,000 Indians who work on Ihe sugar plantations in J''jji. Mr Crump ma.de ;i special aup«aJ on behalf of the mission funds. He said that in his own district the mission had reached only 40.000 out of 400.000 natives in New Britain, the area of which was about the same as that, of the North Island of New Zealand. Tribal wars were still carried on. cannibalism existed, infants were killed, and old people were allowed to starve. The natives begjred for more teachers to visit their villages, and tbe chiefs were constantly petitioning to this effect.