Show ARBITAL we a weri werl were somewhat surprised on thursday thu r dd V by 6 jr the tile U unexpected appearance ril ill in i our of bider elder addison pratt who arrived here ou on the emma pacher packer from the society soch sock ty islands after a of forty one da s elder pitt plott P itt il it will be remembered was appointed by the tiie conference of the church beld held in san S B Bernardi er nardino iko iio last april to lake uke a mission to tile the society so c lety itty islands H hw immediately irs didde ide ido the nieces stry ar rang cements and started for ili til hose 0 se lauds leaving this port on the tile of april no sooner had lie he arrived at tahiti than ha ile found himself restricted strict eted ed in his ilia operations by the tile oppressive en llie ilia french over that aud and the adjacent groups and without the libert ilbert liberty y to preach to the natives on that island i at any of the islands upon which he had formerly lalli labored gred ored two chiefs one from dle jle island of ana aim add ana tile the other from taroa aaroa that ile lie was s ut it iamo iamb down for the purpose of taking faking him dim back with them and went to the gover Gorer governor nor zo to get his permission as they had u understood ilder stood that toleration had been extended but when they informed ills ins interpreter of their wish visit they were driven from his presence with and violent get and told that br pratt bed bad done all tile the preaching thin h W would he be permitted to do there and that lie he should not leave tahiti for any tiny other lland wand i with such suell object finding that every effort to obtain the tiie privilege of or ministering unto is nto the people was ims unavailing and an opportunity ty of cretu returning off ring elder P deemed jeer ned it wisdom to cretu return rn this intoe intolerant rant and illiberal course has bag also been reen pursued towards the english protestant m s lenaries sion lon ion 1 aries they are not permitted to preach to tha the natives and the majority of 0 them consequently have teft left one of their num number loer raer mr howe flowe who is preaching to the whites irk ii Tal tai tahiti liti published a small catechism in ili the native language to some of the ideas of which the tiie catholic dignitaries took exception as in their opinion they w were derogatory to catholicism suits lt this gIntle dintleman man were instituted and arter after several trials lie was fined and his books condemned to be burned elder pratt informs us that elder alvadus hanks flanks who left great salt lake city for th those Ish olds and who has beben there since 1650 is diligently and successfully attending to the duties of his ills ministry on the islands of tile the i pe or c chain hairs group he ba has baptized sized nearly all the i inhabitants of one is island s and large num numbers bers bars on the other islands being so some ine did distance from fron tahiti he has succeeded in prose cu ting ling his labors without attracting much attention there is a very general desire arnom arnow among the natives to leave their sunny home and ernig emigrate rate to zion which has doubtless been increased by the tyrannical conduct of their french wa masters western standard oct 4 |