Show I REUNION OF POLYNESIANS Time Tha reunion of o time the Polynesian nils held in hall last night flIght was n t pronounced pronounce success ss and reflected credit cre lt on the committee hav hn log ire It in hand Besides a largo large attend attendance ance lince of natives and returned Elder there thero were present President Joseph F Patriarch John Smith Rider I Hunger Rudger Clawson Seymour Semour B II BYoung Young anti and ani many others prominent In 11 Church circles The rho program proper was preceded by hy n t half hours hour social 1111 dint and at S 8 there was WIlS a n hymn by ly the time congregation and an Invocation by b bIder byRider Rider Ider Rudger Clawson Then follow followed ed l 1 a n song econ anti and chorus In imi Hawaiian Kind W or II arc Sweet TOUCH fane of oC the tle th heart by Elders 1 anti natives nil tI 8 after which Chairman Thomas L I Woodbury nn an Introductory welcom ing log In happy happ terms onus nIt nil who vho had hn come together to participate In the reunion Then Timen came calli the time Japanese national hymn h y Elder Eider Bl er Louis A Kelsch and commit te ti lee followed toll owed by nn an address a dress on nit Japanese Homo Life Lite by Elder Kelsch The Thu speaker referred to 0 th time reception of tho ho Mormon Elders m er in III Japan and the time cordiality of oC the time people generally towards them He described 1 their peculiar eullar customs paying in attention to their dross drop cleanly nM domestic life and touching on their manner maimer df Of procuring and sire pre preparing poring paring food 00 1 and Ind their nerving It on WI mats and nn 1 tables Sumac Some points touched upon resembled r d the tho habits mind and customs Of f t the Polynesians Iol The Tho number on ott the program true ns n it sacred snared cicero chorus by b re Ie turned d Elders JI after otter which Elder BIller 0 J J 1 P II I spoke on cm the pursuits of ot till Lb Islanders and the time tidal wave describing d clearly clearl Lice tho group and anti particularly the the till scene wreno lt ne of ot recent devastation Tin Thi fh rr related thu tho circumstances under which Elder Eider utah und th ho hl were sent to the Inland In Pu i tho tUe Prophet Joseph commenced theli thell labors on this group II P his hl narration b U Dig Ing timely and end Interesting He H al also aho o d scribed time the coral Islands and UK th rc coil rl fisheries in which so many of oC th tIm are an Interested Miss lIss Ida Thome lhorne 11 tt native rendered nn en ancient Samoan chant IU a slated fisted by h returned Elders I following which came clime an on address on the trans lation of ot tho the Book Hook of oC Mormon Into tho the amonn tongue by Elder F Jo E Mor tl ci lIe He said raid that Elders had been ac n lively engaged for years In translating the Iho book ns as the natives wore Were desirous of or reading what whIt they believed to be time tilt history hl lory of their ancestors Tho The book saint aid the speaker II r was wn now being put tut In type t re by the News and It I is that the tho first copies copieR will ISSUe from tram tho the press about April 1 I next A number much appreciated and re recalled recalled called 1 1111 n a guitar duet by 11 Vaten Mete n 1 native Maori Mann anti Prof C IX I Elder Ehler James Jimes N Lambert timer then Ih road read n a carefully prepared paper on oil the Iho of oC New Zealand the tit th full tull text of which will probably ap Ip pear var In these columns later on Oil I p II Lewis n a native natly rendered as a solo a Hawaiian melody and Calvin Samuel JamesAn drew and amid Jesse Je se Smith sons eons of P dent Joseph Jo eph F o Smith gave n a song pong hal and chorus Lo Ie Mol Moi In This number was followed l by an nd nIl dress by b Elder Eider seating the tho general committee Elder ElIJer no congratulated the tIme Stake Slake COin com committees on having secured such a hug attendance and bi on t the Increased inter interest est eat in Polynesian l ri affairs I lie He referred referral particularly to fl representation of Japan nt at time tho Polynesian I reunion be b lieving It tp be quit appropriate In this hl road a II portion of a clipping from n lt oW paper of or tome Mme ago Rt stating that Mr Ir 1 c cAsano Asano Au t r pre of oC a awell awell awell well known h II named Mitsui fIt ul Has Rax Hassano sano ano hawa was visiting l New Zen Zea land band He wn aman of ot munch much gOicO gemco well tip up In events of or the day lIa and slid quite q z student tu The article sluts that butt Mr Asano Is lit much Interested in Inthe the He ne naw rota some over In n Australia AU from what he ho hall had seen anti antl bC them them anti from rein what he be at th lr history and language he be tha they the and anti the Japanese have It ft common lJ ou origin Mr Ir Asano in intended tended t to nuck further Inquiries upon the while In n New Zealand ealand President JO J ph F Smith addressed erl the assemblage He lie said raid he lie was pleased to tU me m meet l with so many Elders from the tM Pacific Islands mission Per Personally he enjoyed associating with the th natives ns nit he lie had hod sp spent nt some Ome years on the lie Islands na ns a 11 mission cry nry President Smith the climate of oC the Sandwich Islands tat stat lag Ing In that he hI knew of no place where hell he would prefer to go for rest and lion Ion He lie loved the Ih tople l and could coull enJOy even the pol poi with a relish He lie 1 delight ht In attending such Uch re reunions reunions reunions unions anti believed they thu would be bo pro p of good After Afler n a hymn by the congregation anti and on benediction the Iha a assemblage s hiS dig much pleaded with the time of If the evening |