DAIRY OF BISHOP HANNINGTON.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7636, 8 January 1887, Page 3

DAIRY OF BISHOP HANNINGTON.

.On the 29th October, 1885, this ill-fated missionary had penned the following in his diary, which lias just come to hand :— ' ' Eight days' prison. I can hear no news, but was held up by Psalm 30," which came with great power. A hyrena_ howled near me last night, smelling a sick man (the Bishop was ill with fever), but 1 hope it is not to have me yet." These were'the last lilies he wrote, and it is believed that he was taken out of the miserable hut where he was confined, amidst vermin and filth,' as we learn from previous entries, and led to execution.' - It appears, that .almost directly, after his arrival at Liibwas he was, whilst ascending a hill to.vie w the country, set upon -and robbed and brutally ' illtreated by a gang of ruffians, and almost immediately afterwards dragged into the hut, from whence he was taken to his death a week later. '. The Key. J - ' Henry Perrott Parker has been consecrated in Bishop Hannington's place, and it is to be hoped that discretion will be used in dealing with the ignorant' chiefs whose moral and spiritual elevation will be. his care. It is almost certain that Dr Hannington's death was occasioned by .the fear that he andhis followers were the advanced guard of an invading army. , Terrible news of a wholesale massacre' of , converts, in the country of King Wan£a(Manda) has just come to hand, which recalls the days of the Roman Emperors. Many were tortured, mutilated, and. speared, and 32, it is said, were burnt to death. If reports :are\ to be believed, • the unfortnnate sufferers exhibited; a .heroic constancy worthy of the days of the early Church.