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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>== Bp Pompallier to Fr Reignier, Auckland, 27 February 1851 ==<br />
''Translated by Miss M Lindsay 1986''<br />
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:St Patrick’s, Auckland<br />
:February 27th, 1851<br />
:My Reverend and dear Father Reignier<br />
;[1]: I have just written to you; it was rather hastily because of the unexpected departure of a shipload of natives for Tauranga. But since this ship is not leaving as quickly as it was announced, I have written to Father Moreau and I hasten to write to yourself because I was not able to say in a brief letter today everything I wanted to. The Reverend Father Moreau will doubtless inform you of what I said to him. I am sure of it and I do not repeat these matters.<br />
;[2]: I have read your pleasant and interesting letters of November 29th, December 25th and January 16th. Your news and remarks are of use to me; I am grateful to you for them.<br />
;[3]: At present it is impossible for me to send a curate/priest to Father Garavel or to send one to Rotorua also. ….[''Si vous quittez avec la P Morieau cette ……. matin''] Heaven and the church see the auxiliary work of the Marists in New Zealand and how they are the auxiliary troops of the episcopate and Bishops; they cultivate the fields and at the time of harvest they abandon them and go to seek uncertain fruits elsewhere; there you have a faithful picture of what happens in this archipelago under the high government or myth of goodness knows who. I have a distressed heart by it. God will provide, I hope. Never have ingratitude and delusion earned the blessings of men, of the angels, of Mary and of God.<br />
;[4]: There is nothing for which I have to reproach you, my Reverend son in Jesus Christ. You are all ………………………………………….. that I have only to express to you my gratitude for your journeys, your work, your zeal, your affection and your devotion. Your letters and your deeds demonstrate the sentiments which I express to you here. I hope that prior to your departure to Wellington you will come and see me in Auckland which is of course the port of your departure.<br />
::Your fond and devoted servant,<br />
:::Pompallier, Auckland<br />
;[5]: PS I have written to Monsignor Viard and Father Forest with regard to you. I expressed my wish to have you in my diocese. I am waiting for their replies, and I urge you to await them likewise for the decisions concerning your stay in my diocese or your departure for the South.</div>Merv