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Motueka Star, Volume II, Issue 60, 11 March 1902, Page 4

At the services in aid of the Melanesian Mission, held at St Paul’s Px-o-Cathedral, Wellington, the preacher was Bishop Stuart, of Persia, one, of the oldest living missionaries of the Anglican Church. In the course of his sermon the Bishop referred in eloquent terms to the work of the two Selwyns, the one in New Zealand and Melanesia, and the other in the scattered diocese of the South Seas. Twenty one years ago Bishop Stuart visited Norfolk Island, the head quarters of the Melanesian Mission, and was present at a ceremony in connection with the church erected asti memorial to Bishop Patteson, the Martyr of Nuhapu. As an instance of the progress made by the mission, the preacher mentioned that at the time Florida had just been the scene of the massacre of an officer and several seamen of the Royal Navy, while to-dav the Island had been won to Christianity. Commenting on the latest reports of the mission, Bishop Stuart spoke of the faith and hopefulness which characterised the writings of those of its workers who had been longest in the field, and said he had noticed a similar thing in connection with his Indian experi-, ences. The plans have been completed and the work will begin in New York this winter of an office building of much greater dimensions than that which is_ projected for the new avenue from the Strand, London. The edifice will be twenty-two storeys high, and will cost £BOO,OOO. A remarkable sight is to be seen right alongside the roadway, which leads around YYaikaremoana.This 'is a rata tree, a branch of which has picked up pnd is supporting a huge rock weighing about twenty tons.