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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13741, 24 May 1910, Page 7

FORTY YEARS IN THB NEW . HEBRIDES. *) "When I went to the New Hebrides " over -10 years ago the inhabitants were all heathens and cannibals. Now they aro all Christians, und life and property are perfectly „afe." In theso words a patriarch Hearing Ids 80th birthday summed up his life's work in tho islands. Eighteen years havo elapsed since he last visited Sydney, and when ho stepped ashoro from,.-'; the steamer Malaita.he was unable to recognise tho cityjns he had known it. Tho Rev. Peter Milne chose the,lifo. -.-' of a missionary when in Scotland, said left his native shores in December,. 1868, in a sailing ship, which occupied four months on the voyage •to New • . Zealand. He had been chosen, for ■ work in tho mission field by the Presbyterian Church of Otago, and was the first missionary sent out.by that body. In 1869 he arrived at Erroma'hga—.the scene of the massacre of John Williams—and in tho following year tie ■ settled in Nguna, in "Ondine Bay, where he has remained over sine.. "I am on my way to tho Old-World," he explained." "to superintend the '- printing of the complete New Testament in the dialect of my district. This work is to be undertaken, by the British and Foreign. Bible Society m - London. Then I proposo to go on to Edinburgh, where other works will be printed. This will bo the firßfc' time" that the New Testament will be printed in the dialect of Nguna, which is'un-' derstood from the south of Efate to. tho south-east end of Epi, including Tongoa. Portions of tho New Testa- . - ment havo been printed *_t different 1 times during the past 30 years. "Yes, if I am spared, I intend to again return to the .islands,*' ho said.. "I shall bo two years at home, and am getting on in years, but I. look .forward to resuming my work. This -a but tho third trip I have had side. T commenced my labours in Nguna -0 years ago." - ..

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