538 FIJI AI^D THE FIJIANS. When Mr. Moore was removed to the Mbua Station, Mr. Hazle- wood continued at Nandi, where for one year he was assisted by Mr. Polglase. His position became very trying. The Christian Chief proved unfaithful ; and the constant wars and threatenings of the Heathen so harassed the Missionary, that his already overtaxed strength gave way, and he removed to Viwa, where he remained for several months, until he accompanied the Eev. Eobert Young to Syd- ney, in November, 1853.* The charge of this Circuit was now placed in the hands of Mr. Mal- vern, who entered, with his usual zeal, on the school-work, and the training of Native Agents. A good school-house was built, and every eifort made to improve the condition of the people. Mr. Malvern had for his colleague the Rev. Samuel Waterhouse, who had studied the Fijian language in New Zealand, and was thus prepared to enter the sooner on his work. Considerable success attended the laborious and noble efforts of these two men to stay the prevailing horrors of war and strangling. Among the church-members were still found many who were remarkable for the earnestness and vigour of their piety. Mr. Malvern having removed to the neigbouring Circuit of Mbua, the Rev. J. S. Fordham, who had just arrived from England, w^as appointed to Nandi in July, 1854, where he remained until his removal to Mbua in 1857. In the early part of 1856, the shadow of death again fell, in great darkness, upon the Nandi Station. The young and amiable wife of Mr. Samuel Waterhouse, who came to Fiji in delicate health, died on the 17th of April, aged twenty-six, leaving her heart-broken husband to care for her infant. No man ever loved Fiji with a more Christian devotion ; but he felt that, with such a charge, he must leave for a time, and removed accordingly to Tasmania. Want of space forbids the insertion here of many valuable letters from Messrs. Malvern, Waterhouse, and Fordham, some of w^hich have appeared in the Wes- leyan Missionary Notices, and are filled with interesting information concerning the work in this Circuit. The following must not be omitted. It is from the hand of the bereaved young Missionary, Samuel Waterhouse : — " Hobart Town, June 11th, 1857. — You are doubtless aware of the cause of my visit to this the land of my youth. I came to place in the arms of its sorrowing friends, who could bestow upon it that care which it could not receive in my desolate Fijian home, my poor, precious, motherless boy ; and I came to see whether, in this cold,
- The account of Mr. Hazlewood's death has already been given, page 890.
