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If I was not watching like a cat they would be standing about in all sorts of places and catching cold. 'I send you in a box, a box made by Pitcairners of Pitcairn woods. 'Ever your loving old pupil, The little New Caledonian remained at Taurarua with the Bishop, and as there was no woman at St. John's to take the charge of Cho's wife, she was necessarily sent to Mrs.
'I fear I do not write to those two dear sisters of mine as they and you all expect and wish. I long to pour it all out; I get great relief in talking, as at Taurarua I can talk to the dear Judge and Lady Martin.
'2nd Sunday in Lent, 10 P.M. 'My dear, dear Bishop, I don't think I ever quite felt till now what you have been to me for many a long year. I could say much, but I can't say it now, and you don't desire it. You know what I think and feel. Your letter of the 3rd reached me last night. I don't yet realise what it is to me, but I think much more still of those dear people at Taurarua.
Walked two miles to see a parishioner of the Archdeacon's. 1.30, dinner; 2.30, walked to Taurarua, five and a half miles, in a burning sun; walked on to Mr. T.'s and back again, three miles and a half more. 7, tea, wrote a sermon and went to bed. To-day, service and sermon, for 600 soldiers at 9; Communion service and preached at 11.
It was a difficult point, as the London Mission was reasserting a claim to the Loyalty Isles, and the hopes of making them a point d'appui were vanishing; but these men and their wives could not but be accepted, and Simeona was preparing for baptism. The Bishop of New Zealand thus wrote to Sir John Patteson respecting Coley and his work: 'Taurarua, Auckland: March 2, 1857.
'Taurarua, Good Friday. I am tired, for walking about in a hot sun, with a Melanesian kit, as we call them, slung round the neck, with clothes and books, is really fatiguing. Yesterday and to-day are just samples of colonial work. Thursday, 7.30, prayers in chapel; 10.30, Communion service in chapel.
The only vessel that I could make any arrangement about not yet returned, and known to be in such a state that the pumps were going every two hours. Kerr. But there is, I fear, none other, and I am in a difficulty. Of the same day is a letter to the Rev. Stephen Hawtrey: 'Taurarua, Auckland: May 6, 1861. 'My dear Mr. Hawtrey, I was highly pleased to receive a note from you.
Third day, Sunday, services at two different places. Fourth day, walk of some twenty-seven miles through unknown regions baptizing children at different places; and reaching, after divers adventures, a very hospitable resting-place at 8 p.m. in the dark. Next day an easy walk into Auckland and Taurarua. Yesterday, Sunday, very wet day.
Man-of-war gig came down for me at 9.15 A.M., took the service on board; 11 A.M. St. Paul's service; afternoon, hospital, a mile or so off; 6 P.M., St. Paul's evening service; 8.30, arrived at Taurarua dripping. The same letter replies to one from home:
But it is no pleasant thought that the decision to seize the Waitara was made by the Government in Auckland during the very days when the first General Synod was sitting in Wellington, and that amongst the men who thus forced on an unjust and unholy war were at least two who had sat in the Taurarua Conference and had helped to shape the constitution of the Church.
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