THE INVERCARGILL REVIEW.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1602, 8 April 1879, Page 3

THE INVERCARGILL REVIEW.

[Prrss Ware.] Dunedin, April 7. The following is the programme for the Invercargill review. The CanL rbury Volunteers will bo brought down by Thursday’s express, and the whole of the Volunteers will leave for Invercargill by speed .1 train on Friday : o. 1 Battalion, composed of artillery and Naval companies, will bo commanded by Captain A. H. Jack ; No. 2, consisting o < tago companies, by Major Wales ; No 3, which will include Canterbury, Lake, and Southland companies, by Major Lean, The reviewing officer will be the lion. Colonel Whitmore. Lieutenant-Colonel Stavely acts as brigadier, Major Mcßorie as chief of the .-taff, Captain T. C. Reid as brigade major, Captain James Thomson as town major, and Sergeant Towier as g .rrison sergeant major. The present arrangements are, io nave guard mounting, trooping of colors, and sports, on this day week, and Church parade on Sunday The review will take place on Master Monday, the proceedings opening wuh a sham fight. The attacking p .iiy will eonsis'. of Bat alions Nos. 2 and 3, with gnu detachments from Batteries B, and under the command of Ca* tain Craig. The defenders of the fort will be Battalion No. 1, with gun det <chments from Batteries 0 L G and K, under command of Captain Hammcr.-lcy. Ihc . lan of action provides for the defeat and repulse of those attackif g. I:i tin afternoon there will he a general review, forming into Urea, massing, changing fr uts, Ac. Am.memo .is have been made for billeting 1200 me . w '/r.,^,KVT3roar^ THE NEW GUINEA NATIVES. [Press NprrirsS Wire.] Wellington, April 7. The Rev. C aimers of New Guinea, last night gave, an ac onnt of That mission in the Congregational Church. lie said he could m.t yet report any (inversions to Corn tianity to speak of, but could only import that the mission was doing preparatory wn-k. The same state of doings had occurred in Fiji, the Navigators, and other groups in the . outh he s wore missionaries labored f r twelve years with, in some cases, far less hopeful signs than had occurred in New Guinea, where the mission Lud only b. en established six years. The younger Natives were being taught to write and cypher, and other civilizing processes, and as

far as man could judge, there were some who were m:nr to the Kingdom of God. Mr Chalmers noticed particularly the telegrams that had recently . p.-/aired iu the newspapers attributing cowardice to the European missionaries in placing three South Sea Native tb-chers in sanations whore Europeans themselves feared to go. He characterised such statements as base insults, inasmuch as not one of the three teachers, who with their wives had been poisoned, bad been placed in a position which he bad not himself previously visited, and had more cr less confidential intercourse with the natives. The missionaries needed moral support, and there was no word boi ” crnel ” to a-ipiy to those who sat in comfort and security, a- d' wrote leaders and telegrams such as the above-mentioned. The poisoning the teachers was with a viowtogetpossessiouof their property, the colored cloth, beads, hoop iron, &c., with which they were supplied to pay for such labor and assistance as they required. Me had visited the stations since the poisoning, and received offers of compensation from the Natives, which of course he could not take, as ho could not allow them to think that anything they could give was a compensation for lives so taken. Ho thought the greatest punishment that could be indicted was to leave them, alone for a year or so, and to station the teachers’ sT.ccossora in neighboring districts.