Show Ajit australian Kalian 4 I 1 G S L CITY nov kovl 28 1854 to tile the editor of of tile deseret news dear sir by request and deeming it of interest to your readers I 1 furnish you yon a short sketch I 1 of my iniss son to australia labors labois in the ministry the last awot ears I 1 took haave laave of my and tha home i ofle of the saints on the of oct and on oil the th of january following arrived in alie city of san sail francisco F rame isco where after for airout three ali iee weeks ahr though ugh the goodness f our cathor and the kindness of hoble ie and I 1 generous lie arted inen hien the way was ims opened I 1 ed far hie missions who hid thus thud ur far ti averted in win company puy to their i 1 Z I 1 I 1 prosecute journey I 1 on oil the aad 2nd of fobri february ary I 1 left san sail 1 fraai francisco cl 0 o in in company with the brethren bf the same saine mission sio n on board the barque bacque pacific j bound for I 1 sydney there were one hundred and foi forty ty pas pah sen gerson oil board mostly bound for th gold i fields in ili A from many of whom on oil our i first putting gout out to sou sea we received nine much li uni j kind treatment but it did not tako take many many dt anys ys for our ithak and manly ebur course alt conduct 1 to show to all that we were weed not the individuals that the lying scan scandals dItIs put in hi circulation by designing men had tho saints to be before we left the vessel the alie passengers formed an ail attentive alten atten tivo congregation to which we had the eriv privilege illge 0 of f preach preaching ing the gospel i in n its pl glinness pL ju inness and aid simplicity and some of the mot most foremost of our persecutors caime to 1 us ang and apologized and ana bega begged gad pardon for their u coil conduct I 1 we were 56 d dys tys on oil our I 1 passage shopped mop three days tit at the island ahland apola la one olle octha navigation vi groups and on thin of march by the vessels ahne and by sydney lime we reached cd tile mouth of the harbor levei miles from sydney and after laying in q quarantine tie nine nine days das wera safely landed we found on oil our arrival some soine thirty five or forty saints in sydney and its vicinity we barb d in ili sydney two weeks instructing the saint sand ina making preparations for our future labors ac theu lit having iving blessed each other we ive separated for our respective fields of labor I 1 journeyed north milis and commenced my labors in a section of country afterwards known as tile the hunter und and williams river district previous to my visiting thia there had been some same fifteen or twenty baptized but I 1 found them in ia great need of 1 instruction list ruction I 1 traveled over ove r five or six dif different ferell t townships and wherever a door could ho bo opened adfor for preaching there I 1 was found and there my voice was heel heard d bearing bean ng record to the fact that god had committed to nian man a message of ef eternal einal truth tru th in ili all my s the power or of god was with me iu in a indi manner iner which I 1 had bad never before realized an and d in ill all things filings I 1 soe see the promises promis r 0 ps fulfilled which were made me ba before fore 1 F left t the 1 I home of the saints and I 1 feel safe 1 hi M siy ill ing I 1 the same in ili reference ret forence to my brethren J couthill A my labors in the above lift danied ined section of country for over ten tea daling which time limea I 1 delivered MO public discourses and three branches were organized organize iI oue one cob consisting of thirty sk six meir members ibers one of fourteen arid and oneff one of denand at al iother place were sixteen n not ot organized I 1 daring tile tha time lime there was forwarded forwar dou f to 0 australia jiin liverpool by elder samuel W richards aade six or eight or hundred dollars worth of books and pamphlets pamphlet i which received a and ever every j 1 1 possible means was made use of by president farnham and the elders for the sp serend r ead of truth throughout ahr tile the country I 1 I 1 president farnham Farn liam visited me ine before the close of my labors ane ana was much with witch the course I 1 had pursued the spirit of the lord wats was with him anahis and his cAie cheerful erful ed ad with his testimony to the truth were ever cheering to the saints but ou on seeing that my health was fast declining helas lie was decided that I 1 should wind up my iny labors if I 1 ever expected to leave that laud land the idea of letting my body remain till the morning odthe resurrection upon that heaven forsaken portion of the earth found no place with ith mi me still I 1 found that wisdom should lie be used I 1 I 1 visited as itt at tills this place our quarterly conferences were held ut at which times as many elders as circumstances would permit were imd and our meetings oft reminded us of the meeting of the sons of Mosi mosiah ali after they had been separated for a long time among the Lama Lain aultes I 1 visited of country south of sydney some fifty or sixty miles in company with elder farnham a small alders portion artion of the country through he be end and elders Flemr Flern ning ruing and eldrige had been fi traveling aveling tb though ough the most of elder farnhams Farn hams lime I 1 was re I 1 quiren in sydney and I 1 found that the elders I 1 were laboring with 11 the powers they were in 1 possession of to do a good work in the name of the lord but truly lo in the midst of aper a perverse I 1 1 people whose god is 9 gold old and who worship I 1 the at sarino of bacchus I 1 1 I 1 at a conference held in ili sydney on t the he lot let of january 1834 it was unanimously agreed that a I 1 company of saints should be in readiness forbini for emigrating I 1 i on or before the of april following 1 and that I 1 should be in ili charge accordingly on the I 1 of bf marcin march 1 found myself dated in company with sixty oo on board the bacque barque IJ alia A ann nu of san francisco capt C B davis of new bedford in ili comma commard com maud ild I 1 I 1 on onlie the of march we va put to sea and aad on oil I 1 the of april touched ut at the island haaheo I 1 1 na ila called ulina one ef the society groups thirty leagues west of Ot Ota ahila hita in ili south latitude 16 deg 44 mill inin and west long dg ag I 1 was curol informed ill while on oil tins chis island that eld elder er noah rogers I 1 had visited it luring buriak 11 ilia I 1 s kiiss on to 0 tile the so society bety i i Is islands linds at th is place we were wee called to bury bur v a als r by ole imme af pf esther AH allen w wife of t richard 1 I 1 allen allan she ehe was buried buthe island in ili a very resper respectable table mann erand kindness was flown us arpin tile the whites bibs as well as from the unk natee Ifill 0 on 1 1 I 1 theIs the lund affet tarrying tarry I 1 ng three dys having td ta i ken I 1 au on board a arch supply of 1 visions lye we ogain wei weighed glied anchor oil the th of I 1 may va tout liA at letl a ll 11 fi t ed 9 gnp 11 0 i dj duy j a and ud ou on ti alie ie I 1 alth 0 t h of june juais the i a vessel e i safely anchored hiah in llie 0 harbor ut atean in pdro california during our overy every I 1 possible respect was us by the and office Off ipe we lidd had I 1 boic ing every and prayers lid ingan 1 g and tile leaving verse vessel 0 oi f le lulng hat the Captai ii and gist mate wore were fully frilly of th etli N r on ol I 1 tile of jike jeuie jie company arri arrived veil safe J busm q i in barnard in baams awig g baon cent put I 1 for or ti their joir conveyance tind ind iii hi a 4 few days buiey were were all n 1 I on 10 f I 1 agidi found der why way on oil mule back en route or Q lacity lt LC caty ity I 1 I 1 in 11 coil company pa ily with Coi conger iger and hope who were I 1 in charge of abe mail I 1 for till pace find and after fighting audia indians no it 4 erill lucli fro aiom the libat head and ud fatigues falig ups of the journey owing to my then Y ebia 1 oil 0 tle of august I 1 again fou found tid fqy self iu in the circle afa af a kind famil Camily y and iu hi the tili midst asro of r those who rho love righteous 11 messi and I 1 now pow have havo the of being ablo able to t that through I 1 g 11 tie goodness if so of josi fod my heavenly liea venly father fallier and ilia 0 of f flie saints sa auts together with the healthy air which 1 I here inhale my health lias has been in u good degree restored for I 1 which bles blessing sing 1 I 1 am I 1 I 1 1 1 yours truly I 1 I 1 W ILLIAM HYDE |