ARRIVAL OF BISHOP LAMAZE.

Samoa Times and South Sea Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 72, 8 March 1890, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF BISHOP LAMAZE.

Ox Sunday afternoon laa< we noticed that the Catbolic Church ai.d grounds were decorated, and that a great number of native* and others had coi gregated there. On enquiry we learned that it was on account of the expe* t> d ' arrival of His L»rd»hin, Bishop Laain in the at. Luboek, which was da* that day from Bydney. About 4 o'clock the l.ubeok wae signalled, ana immediately the crowd began to muster. I The Suter* and their pupil* had been wailing at the Church for eouie considerable thne. At six o'clock the ' Bar. father Bemi pat off in a boot to 1 the Lubeek, to meat Hi* Lordship. 1 The Convent children, nnder the dir. ction of the Sisters, were drawn np in : two rows on either side of the street, 1 from Mr. T. Meredith's to the Mulivei ; Bridge. The Bishop, who was met on ' the beach by the Bee. Father Jo-ph and the Manet Brothers, paeeed lie--1 tw«*u the rows to the residence of the price*. A eervice waa hold in the i evening in honour of the Bishop. The i Church woe crowded to each an extent that It waa simply impossible , for lite censors to get near the door. On Wedneaday afternoon one of the 1 most enjoyable exhibitions of elva dancing eed sieging wo ever had the pleevnre of witnessing was given at : the Conveut at twvalalo in honour of the Bishop. On the verandah wore aeated Bit Lordship, and on the right the Bar. Fathers Bern!, Didior, ' and Godiuet, while on the toft ant the ladies of the Convent, the ' rest of the verandah being Uken np by the friends of the pupils. The houses i -and ground* warn handoaeicly decor* •tad. and a largo aesablnge of visitors mostly Sawoana, attended. The pa/feraMMe took place on the lawn fronting the dwelling hoone. la the front row warn aeated the younger school ehildrea. aromvi in white tonka and heed wreathe. The ffwrnsts, some 40 or 50 young ghde between the egos of 11 and ie, who, we believe, am all PpopiUof the Meters, wore seated lower down, nrd gave a cnlandM nhlbitton I aWaa. They ware all • pink tonics and brown I adornad with wraathe and ybtesne, with an*. »aago tmTmmjsaad

aerletaiaaae hataa evidentij masn sawaastaanl[jy Bsil<s>dslir» t oho wee eeisWm ■oesmnit of thejr anas aad ha wis wee beth fdeaeiag and eaTsenvev It woaU U hsaafy demrahle if fatare siTa daaem weald be esaHuetsit ia thin meaner. It is fell twee enmeef the eld, easiswjy sahibliiasai were dJseeatiaaed. The stye deaee, ae performed by the vonef Bamoan girls oathis eeeaeieti, shoul*! be eaeeawged. It is eertoialy the most aaiorsbJa we have ever seea, aad is highly creditable to the meaner of their education in this particular line.