The bulk of this report is communicated in Le Missionaire, 1897, pp.94-95. Additional material: On the whole the chiefs received him well, the Kumwawuhene especially, so he also get to know one of the catechumen in Kumawu especially well, and a…
The Governor has explained that while the English Government has provision for assisting slaves freed on the sea, there is no provision for assisting slaves freed on land – however he made a (presumably personal) donation of £20. He was present at a…
Reports a case in which the (ex-slave) housemother of the ex-slave children had been found involved in the theft of two of the young girls. A French version is printed in full in Le Missionaire 1897 pp90ff. Ramseyer discovered what had happened to…
Pleads to be spared from being appointed General Praeses on the Gold Coast when Müller retires mostly on the grounds that they do not want to be taken away from Kumasi - it has been a ‘sweet' experience for them to feel the trust that the Asante…
Outlines the political situation in reply to a letter from Basel concerned about the security of resources invested in Kumasi missionary buildings. He does not think Samory is a danger because he does not believe Samory wants to attack the English,…
A long-standing woman member of the community had had to be excluded for 'falling' with an excluded man and refusing to live with her husband - Perregaux had in time past held her up as an example. She was part of a reduction .of 4 in the Abetifi…
There are more than 100 children in the Abetifi schools. Jost comments on the monitor in charge of the younger forms 'his method reminds one often of the schoolmaster of times past. His teaching is very much a matter of drilling, rather than drawing…
This is partly printed as an annex to the 1898 Annual Report pp 51.52. Additional material: The Obrechts arrived early in the year to take over from the Haasis family, due to go on leave. The Mission Festival in 1897 was held in Nkwatia at the same…
Is a protest against the ruling which he has just heard of, that Kwahu boys in the Begoro Middle School will in future have to provide their own money for food.
In this half year there were 106 pupils - the first time the numbers had passed 100 - and the building put up in 1894 is already too small. 26 of this number are girls, 65 boys in the boarding section. Of the boys whose home is in Abetifi 20 have…
Includes his outline plans for the Evangelists’ School. He has found few people living as simple Christians with some earlier education - he names the three as Chr. Kwasi Bo from Abetifi, Jos. Obeng from Kukurantumi, Imm. Badu from Akim Akropong. All…
Reports, up to September, a serious drought, with foodstuff being brought into Abetifi from many hours away. He himself ascribes the lack of rain to the cutting down of the forest in Kwahu, partly in pursuit of food farms (the average length of work…
Reports Clerk's expedition to Krakye and the need to take up the opening quickly - Pastor Hall once reported that the young people had long been waiting for a teacher, and that many were sighing under the oppression of the fetish. So theyshould go to…
Mohr's recommendation of Tapa as a European Station was not widely backed - even before he landed at Accra Pfisterer met the veteran Rottmann en route for Europe who expressed himself strongly against Tapa and wanted to know why they were not setting…
They go over the same ground mainly as Müller (see No. 186). The only social consideration brought into focus appears to be the widespread request for teachers. Martin gives an account of the routes which might be exploited were the station built in…
Has had to train local people as shingle-splitters; has been able to bring two carpenters and two sawyers from Worawora and Kpalime. Wages - for a carpenter's apprentice 6d-9d a day, for a carpenter 1/8d. The sawyers have gone off home again,…
Including a short biography of Catechist Awere by Müller. He was born of Christian parents in Akropong in 1860, and his work had been entirely in the Akropong Middle School and the Anum community.
Announces the almost complete destruction of his property in a fire at Bismarckburg. Inter al his cloth and grey baft had been destroyed, and so was his store of which he was using since the people will not accept English or German money. The fire…
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