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New Zealand Tablet, Volume VII, Issue 412, 4 March 1881, Page 3

Missionary prospects in Uganda do not appear to very promising. Dr. Emin-Bcy writes to the Nlttheihingcii that Mtesa h<ld a great council ou Dec. 3, 1870, at which it was resolved to prohibit English and French missionaries from tr-aching, and to punish with death any native of the countiy who listened to them. The Mahomedan religion was condemned at the same time, and ancient customs are to be adhered to. The assembled chiefs were of opinion that they required no religious teachers in Uganda, but guns, powder and percussion caps. On June 1, one of the English missionaries wrote to Dr. Emm that their task appeared to be hopeless, and the King refused to listen to anything they had to say. Mtesa had relapsed into his savagery, and sacrificed 200 human beings on the grave of his ancestors. From another source we learn that King M tesa, having been cured of some disorder by Father Lourdel, exhibited greater kindness to the Catholic missionaries than before, and that they were able to baptise several adults about April laat.—Atad*niy.