Marist Missionaries

From 7 to 2,000 In Century

TPHE arrival of the first band of Marist * missionaries in the Pacific Islands 100 years ago will be celebrated with festivities in November.

From the little islands of Wallis and Futuna, surrounded by coral reefs, the missionaries went later to Samoa, Fiji, and the Friendly Islands, and to-day they are in charge of the vicariate apostolic of the South Solomons, Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, the New Hebrides, and the prefecture apostolic of the North Solomons, Wallis and Futuna were made a separate vicariate apostolic in 1934.

From seven missionaries in 1837, the Marists in the South Seas now number 176 priests, 168 seminarists, -112 lay brothers, 490 sisters, and 1,470 catechists.

Mr. William Mcßae, who was manager of the Bank of N.S.W., and a member of

the Legislative Council in Suva, Fiji,

many years ago, died in Sydney on October 6, aged 74.