This morning went in company [with] a priest and two teachers to visit 13 of our members who seem to be disaffected. One of them came into the meeting last evening drunk with beer. He said he was sorry for what he had done, but at first he was rather stubborn; when he found we would not put up with his doing wrong, he humbled himself. He is rich and he thought we would put up with anything from him. He had, or rather they all had, been members of the other church and they thought we did not teach and act as they did, that we did not stick to our tract as they did and etc. I told Emiwale that if he did not repent before the church, we would cut him off. He said he would do it. The wife of Opunui was very stubborn at the first, but when she found we did not care about penances, she would do right. She humbled herself and said she had been mistaken; she had the devil big as not. They have not much faith and they thought they could come into our church with all the devilment. I told them if they had so much regard for that other church that they had better go back there, and the woman had been the principle cause of it all. Her husband Opunui is a good man, I believe, but his wife and Emiwale are too thick; appointed them to meet with the church in the morning.
Employed in translating and etc. Br. Woodbury is still with us, but wants to get away to his branch again; has been kept here for the want of a boat to take him over. He is well at present, as also all the folks here and etc. One ship only remaining in the harbour.
