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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVII, Issue 32, 29 November 1889, Page 18

Messrs. Moloney and Burman's Reefers' Club Hotel at Nentuorn is among the proofs of what colonial enterprise can do. In a few Bhort weeks a first-claps house has been established in a township sprung up in the wilderness, comparatively speaking, like a mushroom. Even a nourishing garden has betn laid out in connection ■with the hotel, where the rapid growth which nature promotes in this climate has aided an equally rapid art in accomplishing what must seem true wonders to people unaccustomed to colonial ways. Visitors to Kenthorn will fiud all their wants admirably provided for at the hotel alluded to. We may add that the enterprising proprietors have aho erected a spacious public hall, which adjoins their house. The wise and firm government of the Church by Leo XIII. and the impulse he has giveu to missionary woik are evidently contributing in a marked decree to the expansion and growth of Catholicity. The Missionary Annual for 1889, which has just been published, con- k tains statistics proving that in missionary countries, that ia, countries \ in which there are only Titular Bishops, Prefects, or Vicars-Apostolic, there has b(en within the past two vcais a considerable accession to the ranks of the faithful. Since 1886 the increase has numbered in ISurope 118,553 souls ; in Asia 87,113 ; in America 486.861 ; and in Oceania 142,807. Deducting from these figures a decrease of 19,859 in Africa, we get a total increase of over 815,000. As to the diminution in Africa it is orJy apparent inasmuch as the Annual has supprcssei the figures representing the European Catholic soldiers in garrison in Afiica— figures which it gave in 1886.