Recent Miscellaneous Intelligence.
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Recent Miscellaneous Intelligence.
AUSTRALASIA.
Bishop of New Zealand--The Bishop arrived at Sydney on the 16th of April (p. 224).
Wesleyan Miss. Soc--It is with much regret that we have to announce the death of the Rev. John Waterhouse, General Superintendant of the Society's Missions in Australasia and Polynesia: this lamented event took place at Hobart Town, on the 30th of March (p. 175). The business which awaited him on his arrival at Hobart Town, especially his correspondence, and the public speaking which he deemed it right to undertake for the purpose of stating the condition and progress of the Polynesian Missions, made large demands upon his strength, before he had taken time to recover the exhaustion arising from his long voyages. Mr. Simpson, in a Letter dated March 31, says--
About two hours before his departure, I joined his family by his bed-side, and they informed him that I was there; when he immediately called out, "Pray, pray." I at once knelt down; and when we arose from our knees, he cried out, in broken accents, "He is precious! he is precious! he is precious!" He seemed to muse for some time; and I suppose the Missions under his care had engaged his final thoughts, and that he felt the need of a greater number of labourers in the field; for he raised himself in bed without help, and cried out "Missionaries! Missionaries! Missionaries!" and then sank back, and never spoke afterward.
