NEW ZEALANDERS. 
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The Missionaries and their assistants, who have 
laboured at these stations ever since their com¬ 
mencement, have not only steadily and diligently 
applied to the study of the language, which is a 
dialect of that spoken in all the eastern portion of 
the Pacific, established schools for the instruction 
of the natives, and endeavoured to unfold to them 
the great truths of revelation, but have from the 
beginning, by the establishment of forges for work¬ 
ing iron, saw-pits, carpenters’ shops, &c. laboured 
to introduce among the natives habits of industry, 
a taste for the mechanic arts, and a desire to follow 
the peaceful occupations of husbandry; thereby 
aiming to promote their advancement in civiliza¬ 
tion, and improve their present condition, while 
they were pursuing the more important objects of 
their mission. 
Success indeed has not been according to their 
desires, but it has not been altogether withheld; 
the general character of the people, in the neigh¬ 
bourhood of the settlements, is improved, pleasing 
instances of piety among the natives have been 
afforded; a number have been baptized, and the 
Missionaries are enabled to continue their exer¬ 
tions, under circumstances which are daily assuming 
a more pleasing aspect. We rejoice to know, that 
the report of the change which Christianity has 
effected in the Georgian Islands, appears to have 
exerted a favourable influence here. This has 
been manifested on several occasions. The follow¬ 
ing is one of the most recent instances. 
Writing under date of May 22, 1829, the Rev. 
W. Williams, one of the Missionaries of the Church 
Missionary Society, in describing a visit, made in 
company with Mr. Davies, to Kauakaua, observes, 
“ In the evening, we were much interested by an 
