Part of the report is printed in the Annual Report 1894, pp. 57ff. In the course of the year a large schoolhouse with two rooms was built for the Boarding School, also, a sleeping room for the boarding pupils. In Bompata there are several houses on…
There was an epidemic of influenza during the year due to the exceptionally heavy rains. They are still losing pupils through the pupils' disinclination for schooling. At the end of the year the numbers stood - 48 boarders+ 11 day boys + 15 girls.…
The Nkoranza war continued. This letter is mostly taken up with reporting that the whole matter has gone back to London at Cabinet level, and according to Ramseyer is in the balance with Gladstone opposed to further annexations. Ramseyer feels…
In the course of the year Missionary Martin travelled to Europe. Missionary Obrecht was posted to Aburi, and Missionary Lehmann posted to Anum. Among their local assistants Assistant Catechist Ruben Kwame was transferred from Tsate to Gyasekan, and…
Reports that war has been going on for months between the Asantes and Nkoranza. Nkoranza has asked Krakye Dente for help, and now Krakye Dente has twice asked Buem for assistance, though Buem is refusing, Clerk appears to connect this with the…
121 baptisms (90 adults +31 children) of heathen over the whole area, a new spirit in many communities, and 23 exclusions. European missionaries - Obrecht and Lehmann left for work in Akwapim, Martin returned to the station from his furlough in…
There is little desire for education in Buem and the scholars can only be kept in the school by love and coaxing. God is working by degrees in the hearts of the community - one confessed (in the preparation period for Holy Communion) that he had once…
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