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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 11, 20 November 1883, Page 4

"Atmodm" in the Melbourne Xetrfer ,ays What a lot of ravages are to he found in England even yet, savagery of the black, oet, just about short of cannibalism, to be met within the whole world. It was only a few months ago that we heard of a horrible human thing, not good enough for a brute, that turned his wife sad baby out of bod to make room for his bull-bitch and her pups, and now we hear of a public exhibition or a bull-dog fight, of which the terms provided for the death of one of the animals. And the fight was fought, and one dog killed and the other badly mangled, and around and about stood an admiring and enthusiastic crowd. Britons, to a man, sir. Nary a slave amongst them, not even to his own vile passions and appetites, and depraved tastes, and dreadfully low human instincts. And in the face of all this, and worse, the churches will persist in missionary labor amongst the niggers and Hottentots, wasting good substantial means in directions, from which, as experince loudly hollos, little or no return can be expected, whilst at home, close at their own doors, is a seething mass of festering humanity, numbering Its hundreds of thousands; humanity whieh, low although it may be, is of a type susceptible of the highest development. And this mass is next door to let alone, the fact being that the churches have yet to devise a plan of Setting at it, and this the Salvationists are oing for them. But the churches might do much better than that if they would only call in the aid of modification and adaptation. It is a fine race, even in its degradation, and worth much sacrifice to redeem,