| Show RETURNED missionaries ELDERS MILSON milsan R PRATT AND W C MELLOR HOME E TER A PROLONGED STAY ABR ABROAD OAD elders milson R pratt son of apostle orson pratt and elder ilder W C mellor of fayette sanpete county arrived in this city on the evening of friday the and were very cordially received at the home ot of elder pratt by a company of about fifty of their relatives and friends who had bad assembled lor or the purpose of gluing them a 9 party welcome elder pi piatt att reports that lie be left this city on OH the day of june 1884 18 for india in company with elders wm win willes H F mccune and dr booth they went via sao san francisco japan china and the strait settlements british possessions near the straits of Mai Wa laca llaca and labored one year in ia india and burnish with some success it ILL the expiration of which time elder willes returned and elders pratt and mccune on the day of june 1886 1385 chaviz ree received instructions to that effect started for their new geld field of labor iu in new zealand where after an uneventful voyage they arrived on OB the day of july following there elder pratt was appointed to labor with ith elder eldera Eld W 0 mellor and they continued their ix exertions in that field until feb lot 1887 1 when having been released from duty they sailed for home arriving in san francisco on oa sunday morning the doth ansti having been just twenty one days on the voyage cone one day being gained in crossing the line they tarried a few days in san francisco visiting friends etch and then taking the central pac pacific c tr train arrived in this city at the gimels time specified e L fi le na the brethren labored gred chiefly iq in thel taa central island or what is i s popularly lady known as tue south island of the new zealand groupp group and confined i their efforts mainly to the cou conversion aversion co version ot of the white people of that island imlau d they report considerable opposition in their meetings yet no personal violence was sustained by either and they were instrumental in assisting seventeen persons to emigrate who are now in the territory among the mabries they were eminently successful f ul and additions to the church from that class continue about forty of the tribe were added to the church while they labored there and others were investigating with a fair prospect of soon being baptized elder adellor purposes starting for his bis home in sanpete today to day the brethren have honorably filled a rather long and successful mission and are glad to get back among their friends and relatives but express their willingness to go forth again whenever they may be called upon to do so |
