The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-05-06
RESIGNS AS
PRESIDENT
Mrs. Hyde Retires
From WOman's
Board.
Big Annual Meeting Will
Be Held on June
Second.
First Calf on Pleasant Island Was
a Source of Wonderment
|. to Natives.
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II founding out ruiz dozen years DIS
president of the Woman's Board of
Missions of Central Union church, Mrs.
C. NJ. Hyde yesterday resigned her
office. and the same was accepted with
many expressions of regret. The
resignation will take effect at the
formal annual meeting in June. Mrs.
Hyde has had more than usual success
as the presiding officer of the Board,
and much of the evangelical work in
| the Hawaiian Islands as well as in
other remote islands of the broad Pa
cific has been accomplished under her
direction
The thank Offering, for which the
meeting was in part dedicated, amount
ed to $124SO, and there was also a spe-
cial donation of $50 from an unknown
well-wisher.
Mrs. Mabel Wing Castle gave an ex-
cellent resume of many of the leading
recent books on missionary work. Her
discussion contemplated, in a large
degree. the missionary work in India
and China. Recent works upon China
she found were of exceeding interest
by reason of the authors. most of them.
being known 20 Honolulans, as many
had been here after the siege of Pc
king.
A letter from Mrs. De La Porte, who
with her husband, is engaged in mis-
sionSry work at Pleasant Island in the
South Seas, which is being largely car
ried under under the auspices of the
woman's Board was read. Mrs. De La
Porte spoke of a visit of both to Ku-
sale where the bible was printed in
the language of the natives in Their
charge. They asked for a typewriter
machine and Monograph, with which
to continue the work of translating
and printing. so that the new transla-
lions could be readily placed in the
hands of the natives from time to time.
The typewriter has already been pro-
cured by Mr.. Gulick and sent to the
mission.
Mrs. De La Porte said that when her
husband left for another island she
had no fear of being alone. with the
natives, but her chief fear was from
the white men there, whom she char
acterized as bad" She was glad to
get fruits fresh from the trees at Ku-
sale, as there are none on Pleasant
Island. When they returned they took
a calf. Such a beast had never before
been seen by the Pleasant Island ma
tives. and it was almost killed by the
curious people. Finally it was killed,
a fatted calf, by the De La Portes, and
every native in their vicinity was treat
ed to his and her first piece of veal.
Some natives came many miles just to
have taste. A plea was made by the
De La Portes for a white woman as
sistant to help them.
1t was decided to hold the annual
meeting for the hearing of reports. on
Tuesday. June 2, in Central Union
Church at which time a morning ses-
sion viii be held from 1915 to u noon.
and an afternoon session from
1870 to 8, with a luncheon from u to
1870. to which the male frienGs of the
Board are invited. The Committees
selected by the retiring president are:
Nominations-Mrs. w. a. Bowen,
Mrs. w. F. Allen. Mrs. w. w. Hall.
Appropriations-Mrs L. B. COan, Mrs.
p. c. Jones, Mrs w. r. Castle, Mrs.
c. NJ. Cooke. Mrs. 3. F. Dillingham;.
Luncheon-Mrs. A. Fuller. Mrs. Wild
difeld. Mrs. Robert Levers.
Invitations to meetings and luncheon
Mrs. F. J. Lowrey. Miss Margaret
Hopper. Mrs. e. b. Dyke, Mrs. n. c.
Brown, Miss Yarrow. Mrs. A. F. Cooke. |
The Tea Party TO the members of the
Evangelical Association-Mrs. c. II.
Gulick, Mrs. Frank Parker, Mrs. o. p. |
Emerson. Mrs. &. II. Gulick Mrs. |
Thrum. Mrs J. Leadingham, Mrs. H. !
II. Williams, Mrs. Wells Peterson. Mrs. |
Bristol.