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The building is vested in trustees. In Coonoor there is the CH. xxiv 

 American Mission Cliapel, witli accommodation for about 250 ecclesms. 

 persons. The mission is superintended by the American Mission- tical. 

 aries in North Arcot. There is a resident catechist. 



For the followinor notice of the Basel Mission I am indebted Jhe Basoi 



" Mission . 



to tlie Reverend W. Stokes : — 



The Nilagiri branch of the Basel German Evangelical Missionary 

 Society's work in India has the following stations : — 



First. — Kaity, with three Missionaries (Messrs. Stokes and Sayer 

 since 1874, Eev. M. Mieg since 1878), a prayer-room, a congregation 

 of 54 individuals not including the missionary staff, and sanitarium- 

 quarters for the Society's Missionaries coming up from the plains. 

 The Mission has likewise a sanitarium at Coonoor. 



There is an orphanage and boarding school (with at present 16 

 boys and 25 girls) attached to the Mission for native children of both 

 sexes, boys however only being retained to a certain age. The parents 

 and guardians of the same are expected to contribute their mite 

 towards the support of these children, who are in charge of a native 

 matron under the supervision of a married Missionary. A native 

 master conducts the school. The girls are also taught needle- work 

 after school-hours, and have practice in household affairs. The boys 

 are employed in different kinds of out-door work. The Mission having 

 taken over a number of famine orphans from the Devala Orphanage 

 Committee, for whom thei'e was not sufficient accommodation at Kaity, 

 the Home Committee have directed the removal of the girls to 

 K<5tagiri, where a new building for them is in course of erection, 

 towards which the Mission thankfully records having received from 

 Government the liberal grant of Rupees 1,000. 



Second. — Nirkambe, considered as an out-station of Kaity, lying 

 three miles southward, with a congregation of 21 members, where there 

 is a Mission chapel and a resident Badaga evangelist. The first 

 Badaga convert, Abraham, baptized in 1858 (»J< 1870) was the 

 father of this Christian village. The custom obtaining as to services 

 is to hold them on alternate Sabbaths at each place, so that both 

 congregations should be able to meet in worship one Sabbath at 

 Kaity and the next at Nii-kamb^. There is a Mission school at this 

 place for Christian and Heathen children. A school for Heathen 

 children at Adikahatti (near Devashola) is about being transfei'red 

 to Kdteri, as the people of the former village are growing indifferent 

 about their school, whereas those of the latter are most eager to 

 obtain instruction for their children. 



Third. — Kotagiri, having a congregation of 108 souls. The Rever- 

 end A. Biihrer, the pastor, assisted by a catechist who is a Badaga, 

 has charge of the station. The native church at Kotagiri was built 

 by Miss Cockburn and handed over to the Basel Mission. The same 

 lady also supports a school which is attended by Christian and Heathen 

 children and visited by the Missionai-y. Four Christian families live 

 out on a plantation in K6daudd. They are regulai'ly visited by the 

 Missionary and the catechist. The station was established iu 1867. 



