MELANESIAN MISSION.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1297, 28 November 1911, Page 5

MELANESIAN MISSION.

■ . » : 'VOYAGE-OF THE SOUTHERNCKOSS. ". ■ Tho lielanesian Mission steamer Southern- Cross arrived at Auckland on Saturday afternoon, after a very satisfactory and successful ■voyage to the Island?. She left Auckland-on September 8, and 'experienced excentionally bad weather on tho run to Norfolk Island. . At one timo a vory heavy sea was running, and a wave, struck ono of the boats and smashed it. The vessel was hove-to for twentyfour hours. After leaving Norfolk Island, until arrival here, tho weather, on tho whole, was good. Very good reports are given of all tho schools m tho mission, and tho health generally among the missionaries was excellent. At Santa Cruz, news was re- , ceived of tho death of ono of our missionaries, Mr. Burry, a. young clergyman, who had-only been working in the Islands a fen- months. His death was caused from blood poisoning. There seems to be a good deal of unrest anion" i-oma of 11m natives in the Solomou Islands, more especially at an" island called Mala. The. mission school villages are repeatedly being attacked, and several cases oi murder liavo been reported t 11 n i ,\ arrival in tho Bank Island, the Kev. A. J. Durrad was married to Miss Bridges, both missionaries who havo been working in the Islands several years. At Vila, in the New Hebrides, H.M.S. Porch was anchored. She had on board the High Commissioner of tho "Western Pacific, and had been talcing him all round tho islands that ho represented. Tho Southern Cross made durintr the voyage over one hundred calls at various mission stations.