The Boston ' Pilot' gives the following facts on the Indian missions ; — "The Catholics have 106,000 of the Christian Indian population. The Protestants, according to the Hon. Felix Brunot, have only 15,000. ThU gives the Catholi;s seven-eigh hs of the whole, ami one-eighth for all the Protestant sect 3. In 1875, Congress appropriated about $200,000 for the Indian schools, and of this sum, §15,000 went to the Catholic, and $185,000 to the Protestant schools. The Catholic teachers partly supported by the Government last year were 32. The Protestant sects had 64 missionaries and teachers wholly s\ipported by the GrovermuQuC
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume IV, Issue 184, 6 October 1876, Page 7
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