Show correspondence THE HAWAIIAN MISSION NEWSY NOTES PROM FROM HOMESPUN loii L UK march 1686 edilo deseret news it is quite in order to say that spring is here but as there ii la not the least difference in the weather to what we nave have had all winter one can only look at the calendar aud and say bay this is certainly spring 11 in my last letter we took a short look at laie nel nei now abere is so BO much I 1 want you to see with ruy my cl clumsy u in SY pen spectacles that I 1 scarcely know where to commence you must know we are a very lively busy ahem LITTLE COMMUNITY COMM UNFIT those who lived here years 5 ears aio ago when six or eight elders aud and three f families am fales constituted the wole population would hardly F recognize recognise us now you see there are 22 elders 10 women and ten children of the white people here then tb en there are about or natives living on the plantation Coa conference ference is drawing near and the elders are all coniing in from the surrounding islands everything and everybody wear quite an air air of preparation it is expected that four elders will be released to return home this conference As I 1 am running about from one subject to another in this letter I 1 will not attempt anything descriptive but mention the few current items of news and wait till another time to tell you about the scenes around here there is one thins thing deserving of special mention and that is ia tin LAIR LAIE BRASS BAND when we came here last december the band had been practicing about a mouth month so they have been organized only about five months and they alky extremely weIL for the length of time the natives very musical and the ones selected for this this band are all very good natural musician they have been trained and led by brother fox of lehl lehi an and d he may well be proud of the result of his labors the finstra instruments meats are line odes ones and cost sm it is nice to hear them play some bright lively tune these lovely tropical starlit nights one forgets the distance from sweet home and all the gloomy scenes acin being enacted therland there and only remembers the fourth of july celebrations of ones childhood SUGAR BOILING has stopped for a few weeks about half the crop has been taken ing perhaps or it 1 t is expected that two more artesian wells will be dug clug soon to f furnish water for land to ti lease to chinese for a rice plantation we had bad a recent addition on the of february to our little colony in the birth of il a son to the wife of J F gates mother and child doing well oranges and lemons have all gone 9 but the good old stand bys guavas glavas make their appearance on our tables I 1 will try and write you the conference news newa if there is any after it is over till then we say lay tu to friends in utah aloha HOMESPUN |