A COLONIAL GOVERNOR.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE - spscrvron.-j
Snt,—In your interesting review in the Spectator of Sep- tember 19th of "My Colonial Service, &c.," by Sir William Des Vceux, and your excellent appreciation of the late King Thakombau as "a genuinely noble savage" who became a Christian at fifty years of age—and Sir William supposes that before his conversion to Christianity he had eaten portions of more than "a thousand human bodies "—there is no reference to his Methodism or the Wesleyan Missionary Society, through whose agency, under God, the Fijians were Christianised. "The unswerving loyalty "of this grand old man to the British Empire owes something to his conversion to the Christian faith and his consistent Christian life. If unknown to nine hundred and ninety-nine out of every thousand Englishmen, as Mr. Victor Williamson says, the name of King Thakombau has been familiar in Methodist homes for fifty years.—I am, Sir, &c., JOSEPH NETTLETON, Fourteen Years Missionary in Fiji, and for some time the Chaplain of King Thakombau.
15 Hawley Square, Margate.
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