OBITUARY NOTICE.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVI, Issue 28, 2 November 1888, Page 13

OBITUARY NOTICE.

By the duaih of the; Rev. Father 11 >i n 'nie«r which occurred at Napier on Sunday light, New Zealand losc^a aui^ivor of the eailier misbionaiietf. Father Uji^uiei. who came to the Colony in 154.2, was a niissuonury or. gie it / 'al, an I whose long lite was consUutly engaged m succL'b^rul works of religion. Ihe Maon race was especially dear to him, and ho laboured nmjng them with great devotion. He was chu f in estabh-hing for tneir children the fine nativeschool at Napier aad also in rjunding the mission station at Meanee. Among the many devoted and sneers, fnl missionaries whom France and the Society of Mary have given to the world, it wouli be bard to mark on<> who has lett moic the record of sell-devotion, sacrifice and zcul bthind him than Father Rei'uier now leaves. —KJ.P