MELANESIAN MISSION.
' SATISFACTORY REPORT PROM THE . . . BISHOP. , (BY TELEGBAPH— rBES3 ASSOCIATION.) _ "'-•■ . Auckland, Novcmbor 24. The Norfolk Island correspondent of the "Herald" states that the Bishop of Melanesia who has-been away:• at tho\ Islands since last JiinOi reports that everything is going on satisfactorily. Tho Bishop-never believed that the repatriated Kanakas would be in anv danger on their return, and ho was pleased 'to find that he had not been too optimistic; but Malaita, his lordship said, was very disturbctl and there had been many murders by the bushmen r.nd somo by Kanakas themselves. In Malaita, it was thought and honed that the returned Christians would establish themselves in colonies, but the opposition of the heathen bushmen was too great, and the men had to give it up and take refuge in the school.villages already existing in every other island. .Howevor, they seem to havo sottled Jown peaceably, ami there has been no trouble. It all. the returned Kanakas havo (treat notions of tho value of their labour, and it is extremely difficult to got them to work in boats, except at exorbitant rates
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 52, 25 November 1907, Page 7
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183MELANESIAN MISSION. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 52, 25 November 1907, Page 7
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