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Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 108, 5 March 1870, Page 6

The police camp buildings, Oamaru, are about to undergo alterations for a local hospital for that township. It is seldom that Lawrence is dignified with the presence of a live bishop. On Sunday last the Primate of all New Zealand performed divine service at the Blue Spur and Lawrence. At both places there was a good attendance ; the Lawrence school especially was well filled, and the bishop discoursed a verypracticalsermon, in which, he showed that religion consisted not in knowledge alone, but in true feeling. From a notice in another column, it will be observed that the Rev. Mr. Granger, of All Saints, Dunedin, •will conduct the English Church service next Sunday. We have to acknowledge the receipt of the " Evangelist" for March, from which we make the following extract. The Eev, Mr. Milne, in describing his tour through the New Hebrides, writes: — "Matters are not very encouraging just now at Tanna. As far as I can judge, it seems more closed against the gospel than it was years ago, chiefly through the influence of white men, more wicked than the Tannese themselves, who are settling on the island, cultivating cotton, and making cocoa-nut oil, &c. These prejudice the minds of the natives against both missionaries and teachers, telling them not to i eceive either. Such we found to be the case not merely at "Waicisse, but also at Black Beach, ami at a place half-way between Black Beach and Kwainera. There are, however, some rare exceptions, and one Mr. Smith, whom we saw at Imalau, on the west of Tanna, seems to have been one. He told us that if a missionary came to his place he would be very glad, and that if either a-missionary or a teacher weie to come, ho would let them have any place on his ground for a house that they might choose, and would render them every assistance in his power. One Mr. Williams, a nephew of the late Mr. John Williams, missionary in Polynesia, was living with Mr. Smith. We have heard that one of these men has been killed, we are uncertain which. When we were at Port Resolution, Kaipapa, chief of Ajiaikaraka, at or near Kwamera, brought us word that on Saturday, the 2nd October (two days after we saw him), Mr. IFilliains was killed. That one Tavau Yakauapu, an under chief of the Kasse-hasse tribe, shot him through the breast, that the ball came out at his back, and that another man, whose name our informant did not know, struck him on the head with liis club ; that he was then carried away to a small village called Itanniarin, and, according to tlvir custom, tied up by the hands to the banyan, or sacred tree, lee hang there all night, and next morning (Sun<l;iy), taken clown, cut up, and distributed among the villages ; that a piece of his arm was brought and given to one Kahi, that Kahi gave it to Toko, chief of Kwamera, and that Toko did not receive it, but sent it back, because the Mr. Watt, w:is living on his land."