BIBLE BURNING IN FIJI.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 50, 27 February 1903, Page 3

BIBLE BURNING IN FIJI.

PER PRESS ASSOCIATION, j Syd'-ey, Fobruirv 2G Th' l general secretary fo- missions j has cabl-d to Fij ; for continuation of j the Bible burning incident, The it v Nolan, of the mission s'nff, says that it evidently oecurrel after Wr Ol?ary !e f t Fij ; . With reference to alleged neglect by Methodist minister?, Mr Nolan siys that ro such complaint was over heard of. Trie charge was solely by the chief, who had a grievance against a Government official. In some unfortunate wty a native clergyman became impl'ca'ed in the nft*ir. The chief in anger fi'Bt approached the Seventh Day Adveritis's, hut they refused to encourage the spirit manifested by the chief, who was advised to apply to the Catholic?. Received 28, 10,19 p.m. , Sydney - , February 26. The Secretary of the Met hod'st Mission his from an indepecdent source at Suvi the following reply fo h's cab'e message Fa'her Rougier admi's burning a case filled ■fith'us'less Namosi Wesleyan Testaments and h\mn l ooks. The was teid at the conference cf missionary authorises, who wfre seething with indignation, The president mov d that the conference exprPFS'S its intense indignation at the burning of new t staments and hymn bookf, by instruc'ions of a priest of the Roman Catholic Church st Fiji, ard regards the matter as a flagrant insult, ! not only to thi Methodist peojle of Fiji, but to our common prolestansism.