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Show From Australia. Yestenlay afternoon a small company com-pany of Saints arrived in this city from Australia, w hence they sailed tm'Aprll 1 They were In charge of Elder Stephen D. Clilpman, of American F'.rk. Elder Chipman Tft' ou'M$riisfon Nov. 1 i,X tSTjantf to labor in the Mooralbark, Glenbrook and Scorcsby dis'ricts, with Elder Iiobrrt Lindsay. In a j few weeks the latter took ill, and I was comillcd to return home. El- Idcr Chipman sras it ft alone till Juno, JESS, when lie Was Joined by Elder Alonzo jStewart, and they perked tin the Melbourne district. dis-trict. Two-months were .spent In Syducy'J and a m vllt was made to ictorla. During the I latterpart of the time, EIderAVooI- ley, of Salt Lake, wras Elder Chip-man's Chip-man's companion. In their experl-j ence.tho Elders met with considera- j blcopposiliou.butno violence. They J prcachrd wherever they had oppor-1 tunlty, . and Brother Chipman har tired twclro now member, j and wai present at tho liap-J tisai-of eight olhcn. MU health! was good with the exception of one ! brief siU of illness, lie was re-1 leased In March, and started for home In company with thirteen Saints. At Xew Zealand they were Joined by Elders Ezra Stevenson, of Salt Lake, John Sutton, of Bear Lake, George Davis, of Brigham City, Boyd Stewart, of Glendale, John Mufr, of Beaver, and a young man named Allington. The. latter party stopped over In San Francisco for a day or two. |