Protestant Missions in the Loyalty Islands
In the Loyalty Islands, Protestant mission work has received a new impetus. For forty years the missions under the auspices of the London Missionary Society have suffered oppression at the hands of the Catholics, being under the French rule of the New Caledonian authorities, and the chief officials influenced entirely by the Jesuits. But, as Mr. Hadfield writes to the London Chronicle, "a better day has come to the Protestants. A liberal-minded statesman is now the governor of New Caledonia, and is doing his best to right some of the wrongs which have been committed. Two churches taken from the Protestants have been restored, and permission to build another church, long withheld, has been granted. Better than all, New Caledonia is now open to Protestant missions, and those who were compelled to be refugees have now returned, and the chiefs have been re-enstated in their former rights."