Tripp, until the approach »f sntnmer makes it nnaafe for Europeans to remain, whilst at tbe same tima tbe weather in New Zealand is mild enoogb for tbe health of the lads. Then some of the most intelligent are brought over to the Mission Station st Aucklsnd, share they spend the summer, returning to their tative islaoda in tbe winter. And now, some leoplt might ask, what has been done towardi [rounding these people in tbe Cbtistian faith ; oto what nnmber of languages have yon tran laled tbe Scriptnrea ) Her* be (Bishop Pat eson) waaanxioua to be very clearly understood; it wUhei to acknowledge; one great advantage

BISHOP PATTESON'S LECTURE ON THE MELANESIAN MISSION. (From the Nelson. Examiner, November 15.)

•nd fear led on to acts of violence, which were afterwards retaliated on the next perhapa inno cent visitors. He wished e«rne«tljr to protest against the practice commonly desired, and too often carried out, of sending down ships of war to chastise or avenge outrages-of this kind. He had aever felt more grieved than when he had seen the commodore of the Australian squadron lately leaving Sydney on such an errand, npon the motion of a few merchants, without investi gation, and in perfect ignorance of the facts of the case. He did not wish to reflect on the officer concerned, who did whst be believed bis duty, but it teemed to him humiliating work for the gallant service to which that officer belonged. He (Bishop Patteaon) believed that the painful affair at Santa Cruz, to which be dared hardly trust himself to speak, would be found to have had a like origin with this danger to which he had been exposed by the death of Petere. They had landed at Santa Cruz and been surrounded in conversation by a large crowd of natives. After wards, on returning to their boat, a rush was made, they regained the boat- with difficulty, and could scarcely succeed in pulling her off, as she was forcibly held back by many men in the water. A number of arrows were fired at them, and they would have all fallen but that his dear young friends had persisted in rowing one with an arrow in bis wrist, and the other with one in bis cheek. 