BRITISH BORNEO. al 
Reverend Dr. HOSE, the present Bishop of “Singapore, La- 
buan and Sarawak,’ which is the official title of his extensive 
See which includes the Colony of the Straits Settlements— 
Penang, Province Wellesley, Malacca and Singapore—and 
its Dependencies, the Protected States of the Malay Penin- 
sula, the State of Sarawak, the Crown Colony of Labuan, the 
Territories of the British North Borneo Company and the 
Congregation of English people scattered over Malaya. 
The Mission was, in the first instance, set on foot by the 
efforts of Lady BURDETT-COUTTS and others in 1847, when 
Sir JAMES BROOKE was in England and his doings in the Far 
East had excited much interest and enthusiasm, and was spe- 
cially organized under the name of the ‘‘Borneo Church Mis- 
sion.’ The late Reverend T. MCDOUGALL, was the first 
Missionary, and subsequently became the first Bishop. His 
name was once well known, owing to a wrong construction 
put upon his action, on one occasion, in making use of fire 
arms when a vessel, on which he was aboard, came across a 
fleet of pirates. Hewasa gifted, practical and energetic man 
and had the interest of his Mission at heart, and, in addition 
to other qualifications, added the very useful one, in his posi- 
tion, of being a qualified medical man. Bishop MCDOUGALL 
was succeeded on his retirement by Bishop CHAMBERS, who 
had experience gained while a Missionary in the country. 
The present Bishop was appointed in 1881. _The Mission 
was eventually taken over by the Society for the Propagation of 
the Gospel, and this Society defrays, with unimportant excep- 
tions, the whole cost of the See. 
Dr. Hose has under him in Sarawak eight men in holy 
orders, of whom six are Europeans, one Chinese and one Eu- 
rasian. The influence of the Missionaries has spread over the 
Skerang, Balau and Sibuyan tribes of Sea-Dyaks, and also 
among the Lazd-Dyaks near Kuching, the Capital, and among 
the Chinese of that town and the neighbouring pepper plan- 
tations. 
There are now seven churches and twenty-five Mission 
chaples in Sarawak, and about 4,000 baptized Christians of 
the Church of England. The Mission also provides means of 
