Show FROM KINGDOM on the landwich Mand islands LAIE may ath 1887 editor deseret news perhaps some of your readers would be interested la in knowing how we spend our sabbaths Sab baths here on the islands at halt past seven the ibe bell rings for sunday school half an hour later all the children and the white elders who are so anxious about the example set zo 10 their dark inferiors are seen wending their way meeting ward to assist in sunday school cals like every other meeting here is subject to a sort of ebb aud and tide awhile the house bouse is s crowded and anon empty benches benche stare at the teachers just dow now there ther seems to be quite a revival A CHANGE OF OB LOCAL OFFICERS was effected at the late conference which may in some way account for it Kanik hapa was installed as president wf t laie ward sunday school kin kinni ni makala hua and L B cianos as coan delors se lors at half past nine sunday scho school is dismissed and the bell rings long and aoud for morning morn lne services ten allock fi clock finds all hands except the cook en route to meeting the roaring tearing wind that usually prevails at fasie blowing dress skirts into uncomfortable for tor table shapes nobody presumes to carry a sunshade for old boreas would burn it inside out in a trice and at last the foreigners ire are all there fiere tf as well as the natives the elders la B their uniform of linen breeches the aisters fa aters in summers a airy iry robes of wh white ite usa usually al ly the natives dress wry wery much as we do only none of the women ever presume to put on a tight dress indeed they are far too sensible to thus compress their i te odies i the meeting house bouse is a very nice one Tb estand accommodates about twelve azad odis is conven convenient tem on each eaph side are i raised pews for the native leaders in front sits the choir and a good one it Is brothers noall and beazly having i succeeded in drilling the raw uni trained but excellent voices until they I 1 i can manage an antem and even a dif k abuit one with very excellent effect one great advantage with these natives id a that few of them are ever known to run flat in their singing having excellent ears THE USUAL SABBATH SERVICES are conducted in the Hawa hawaiian ilau language every fourth sunday the first one in the month being the general last day ois OB which day the sacrament is administered we have enjoyed some splendid discourses since we came here and it is worth the time to study the langu language LOe in order to co comprehend cpr ehe d the r rian I 1 cn leaa leaana ts of soul which have b been in times past spread before the saints at late lale anoon noon finds us sitting down to din dinner 13 er which as the bible says it if 0 only boiled herbs is partaken partaker par taken of with thankful hearts but boiled herbs would prove wore more acceptable at laic for meat and bean soup form our chief variety formerly the Y M 1 I A was convened at halt past one in the afternoon the testimony meeting following at half past three this with our evening meeting made live meetings a day a and nd was enough to make the strongest weary now the Y M 1 I A and the testimony meetings are held on alternate sundays at two leaving a person time to breath between services after the afternoon meetings which are like those at home every one goes to his own room to read to write to study or to long for a glimpse of home as the case may be at seven or thereabouts the prayer bell rings and we hold an evening meeting in english EB glish commencing with a reading from some of the church works followed by remarks from elders previously chosen to speak on the lesson read and thus closes the sabbath each one like the last and all serving as a waymark wayra ark that brings us one week nearer nonie THE MILL has been running three weeks since conference and has haa turned out thirty live or forty tons of sugar miserable weather has greatly interfered with success but prest king has energy and ability enough to rise almost superior to even weather it is a great inai we nave not noi set bei 01 rollers roller and another boiler for then no matter mailer what kind of weather we might have the mill could be kept running making work for or the natives and money for or the plantation with this vessel lour four of our native saints expect to remove to utah peter and wile au and brother and wife lof honolulu the farst two are staunch old mormon veterans and a most exceNe excellent nj and couple the others are recent converts but smart and capable they will be an acquisition to the nineteenth ward settlement and depart with the best wishes of white and black HOMESPUN |