Show tho the now new zealand mission by courtesy reesy of brother P F D are permitted to make the following extracts from a letter just jost received by him from resident president NV 1 T stewart stewert of the new zealand mission it II ia i dated gisborn Oi march ilia on the silt ath ifil ultimo tinto we closed a most successful and enjoyable three days conference which was w well ell attended having native representatives from ill all parts of the lie leand where we have bran brunches clift except the Waira ripi the reports showed 11 I 1 very favor able condition of the lie va various tiou con or districts and it bif win 0 indeed tit s es the intelligence au and understanding and the lie giedt earnestness by so many of our nativo native saints there wart eleven of the utah elders alders present lit ILL the conference Confer con term enre re fill all enjoying good health excepting E clun who lias jim not leen iwen robust t since hince his arrival anival in this thi 4 land het however lie together with the oilier were enjoying thein selve v very belr iauch and kiil I 1 believe that nil all or nearly all of tin the eidens here feel fed very thankful that their missionary field ila has fillen fallen in ill this I 1 art of tile the world our report shows 23 elder and 2 sisters from utah of the local arie there are arc 31 elders 73 priests 1 teachers and d 21 deacons also 1113 er M 1 I who added to the children under eight years of age inake 1019 1619 is 14 a total number of souls at tile list last of if january and alii there have been enough added since ince I 1 to jiahe the up till to 1800 three hundred full and seventy five were 1 I and 1311 blessed during the alic lat laa six also 30 were excommunicated find and fliche were IS 18 deaths against 21 births Lirt lis during the thestine saine period four persons emigrated two elders were ivere released lud and five at ai rived the europeans Europe ius aus numbered about the saine as wore before we hinc one school flourishing under the management of 0 sister deniss efforts in this direction are highly satisfactory our other listar is located in tile waikato Wai kato but it will likely be sonic some time yet before they I 1 ill have a school in operation there I 1 made 1 a I clial eltoft at translating the lie alook of mormon Mori tion into maciei having elder ezra V F richards and rl ft half caste casle ca native as but I 1 found that lie he was lacking in an all understanding a of english engli h ili we were in maori so that our work was not iery cry batis s aan factory it is in impo impossible sible to procure any ally 1111 native iVe educated in ill llis liis own language ns as they have no here for that purpose fiur osca tile the natile nathe language langi uge itself is is wore more or kiefs cs deficient and it will ill require a most thorough acquaintance with its idiomatic to enable a translator to chinoy alic lie fel teachings ellingS of so a i work its ai file book of mornion mormon in that forcible manner desired it seems to tile me thit that by deferring its translation tor for a year or so it will insure a better translation and of course tile best that can call be had is desired I 1 understand that there are one or two abo have joined the ill church in ill the waikato to who are arc better acquainted with the language than any wo we have it here re so IV when lei i they have little cimei to acquaint I 1 bailit chellise th themselves ellise I 1 ves with tile p principles clcil ea of the gospel go they will ivill lie effic cut helps in iii the work of translation tile the two elders elder laboring in ill southland md and the one in austra austrilia Austri lit lii do not depolt much progress 1 among 0 tile the whites mid ild there are lire i 1 few 1 im pot puit snit sec eions of country enli inhabited abit I 1 d by laoris mions that do not teem U a os 3 et prepared prapai ell for tin tile gospel aud and one place pl ice where ye ve V e meet very cry bitter opposition aside front from this wo we all feel that the missi miss ionis oiw in ill a very nourishing flourishing condition ondi tion deseret bews yews |