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;[1]: A few lines about our life together. Fr Chouvet has come to replace Fr Reignier who was with me. Fr Reignier has been placed closer to the interior of the countryside, four days travel from Opotiki at a place called Rotorua. I have just been called to the Bay of Islands for a period. I would have the care of the Maori at this mission station until the return of Fr Baty who had just left for Sydney, he will no doubt write to you himself from there. | ;[1]: A few lines about our life together. Fr Chouvet has come to replace Fr Reignier who was with me. Fr Reignier has been placed closer to the interior of the countryside, four days travel from Opotiki at a place called Rotorua. I have just been called to the Bay of Islands for a period. I would have the care of the Maori at this mission station until the return of Fr Baty who had just left for Sydney, he will no doubt write to you himself from there. | ||
| − | ; : Fathers Forest and Bernard and the brothers of the order are here. Fr Garin is in the Kaipara, three days travel from the Bay of Islands, for some months. Fr Moreau is at Hokianga with Mgr Petit but only for some months. | + | ; : Fathers Forest and Bernard and the brothers of the order are here. Fr Garin is in the Kaipara, three days travel from the Bay of Islands, for some months. Fr Moreau is at Hokianga with Mgr Petit but only for some months. Fr Petit-Jean is still in Auckland. His school is faring well. There are twenty-four children. Fr Pezant spent two months in the Bay of Islands. He has just left for the Tauranga station. Fr Rozet is at Whangaroa near the Bay of Islands. We are all in good health. Some, however, are beginning to suffer from |
Revision as of 13:15, 13 August 2010
Fr Jean-Baptiste Comte to Jean-Claude Colin, Bay of Islands, 25 Nov 1843
Translated by Mark Hangartner, August 2010
APM Z 287 25 November 1843
New Zealand, Bay of Islands, 25 November 1843
To Very Reverend Father Colin, Superior General
Very Reverend Father,
- [1]
- A few lines about our life together. Fr Chouvet has come to replace Fr Reignier who was with me. Fr Reignier has been placed closer to the interior of the countryside, four days travel from Opotiki at a place called Rotorua. I have just been called to the Bay of Islands for a period. I would have the care of the Maori at this mission station until the return of Fr Baty who had just left for Sydney, he will no doubt write to you himself from there.
- Fathers Forest and Bernard and the brothers of the order are here. Fr Garin is in the Kaipara, three days travel from the Bay of Islands, for some months. Fr Moreau is at Hokianga with Mgr Petit but only for some months. Fr Petit-Jean is still in Auckland. His school is faring well. There are twenty-four children. Fr Pezant spent two months in the Bay of Islands. He has just left for the Tauranga station. Fr Rozet is at Whangaroa near the Bay of Islands. We are all in good health. Some, however, are beginning to suffer from
