"A BEAUTIFUL BISHOP."
A quaint letter, written from Norfolk Island by a native who is studying for the ministry there, describing the new Bishop of Melanesia, who is now in New Zealand, is published in the Sydney Evening News:—"l am greatly astonished at this Bishop," says the boy writer. "He is very tall, his face is exceedingly beautiful, and his clothes are beyond description, He is also very learned indeed, and I am astonished because in three days he already knows something of the Motoa language, and I think that in this he must .be more learned than Bishop Wilson. We decorated the mission, painted afresh the house of the clock, and words waited for the Bishop on the road. The words were 'Our hearts are with you.' The Bishop visits each class in the school and I am afraid because we do not know anything. We do not answer him because he speaks in English only, and we are thick heads and do not understand this language you call English.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 1813, 3 January 1913, Page 3
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