’Much of the timber has been carted up, more has been stacked at the top of the hill.  This was carried by the boys, and will be carted along the pine avenue; a good deal is still near the pines, but properly stacked.  I see nothing anywhere thrown about, even here not a chip to be seen, all buried or burnt, and the place quite neat though unfinished.

’1.  House, on the plan of my old house just taken down by Gray, but much larger.

’2.  Kitchen of good size.

’3.  Two raupo outhouses.

’4.  Cow-shed.

’I find it quite assumed here that the question is settled about our property here; but I have not thought it desirable to talk expressly about it.  They talk about school, doctor, and other public arrangements as usual.

’It seems that it was on St. Barnabas Day that, after Holy Communion, we walked up here last year and chose the site of the house.  The people have of their own accord taken to call the place St. Barnabas; and as this suits the Eton feeling also, and you and others never liked St. Andrew’s, don’t you think we may adopt the new name?  Miss Yonge won’t mind, I am sure.

’I could not resist telling the people that you and Mrs. Selwyn might come for a short time in September next to see them, and they are really delighted; and so shall we be, I can tell you indeed....

’Your affectionate

‘J.  C. Patteson.’

The time for the island voyage was fully come; and, after a very brief stay in the new abode, the Bishop sailed again for Mota, where the old house was found (May 8) in a very dilapidated condition; and vigorous mending with branches was needed before a corner could be patched up for him to sleep on his table during a pouring wet night, having first supped on a cup of tea and a hot yam, the latter brought from the club-house by one of his faithful adherents; after which an hour and a half’s reading of Lightfoot on the Epistle to the Galatians made him forget every discomfort.

There had, however, been a renewal of fighting of late; and at a village called Tasmate, a man named Natungoe had ten days previously been shot in the breast with a poisoned arrow, and was beginning to show those first deadly symptoms of tetanus.  He had been a well-conducted fellow, though he had hitherto shown indifference to the new teaching; and it had not been in a private quarrel that he was wounded, but in a sudden attack on his village by some enemies, when a feast was going on.

On that first evening when the Bishop went to see him it was plain that far more of the recent instruction had taken root in him than had been supposed.  ’He showed himself thoroughly ready to listen, and manifested a good deal of simple faith.  He said he had no resentment against the person who had shot him, and that he did wish to know and think about the world to come.  He accepted at once the story of God’s love, shown in sending Jesus to die