We arrived at Fremantle, which is twelve miles by rail from this city, the capital of West Australia, last Tuesday night. There was no one to meet us, for the page 9 boat was not expected till morning, and we felt very down-hearted at what seemed so cold a welcome on our first landing. But early the next morning a Mr. Campbell, of Perth, the leader of the movement here, came on board seeking us, and took us on to the city, and found us a comfortable boarding house. I met a score of persons the same evening, many of them Theosophists, who were desirous to hear what I might have to say, and gave me a kindly welcome. The next evening I gave a lecture, on "The Religion of the New Testament," but as they trusted to a short paragraph in the local papers, and did not advertise it, the attendance was very small. On Sunday night, at the time that you were met for morning service at Mill Hill, I had a service in the Town Hall. We had four hymns, fairly taken up by the audience; but oh! for the Mill Hill Choir! If our excellent organist could have heard the piano accompaniment he would have fainted! There were not fewer than 250 present, the sanguine supporters of the cause estimated the number at 400. The Chief Justice of the Colony was there, but on the whole the Congregation was much of the kind that I have at Mill Hill on a Sunday evening. The collection to pay expenses was just four guineas, mostly in threepenny-pieces, which was very good, considering the character of the audience.

This was the first Unitarian service ever held in West Australia, and I had a very still and attentive congregation. I lecture again on Wednesday, and have another service on Sunday evening. We leave for Adelaide on the 18th, where I hope to arrive on page 10 Whit-Sunday morning, and take service at the Unitarian Church in the evening.

If it shall prove that I have been the means of gathering together here a few who had no religious home, and beginning a little church of believers in God, free and devout, I shall be amply recompensed for coming so far; and you too, my dear brethren of Mill Hill, to whose generosity in the loan of your minister, whatever little good I can do for the Unitarians of Australasia, is due.

From the other side of the world I send you my earnest and affectionate blessing—not a priest's, but a pastor's, who loves his flock and longs for their welfare.

C. H.