[2] Captain Woodward of the 32 NI, reporting on 4 November 1832, for a gathering of respectable residents of the Bangalore Civil and Military Station speaks of the existing Wesleyan Mission Schools at the Cantonment.

The emphasis was to acquire an education to increase their morals and also to create teachers for future schools.

Contact was mainly with the Tamil population, and for reaching to the Canarese, Thomas Hodson was being trained in that language.

In the same year, Hodson had to take up the role of Supervisor of the Wesleyan Tamil Mission in the Bangalore Cantonment.

Hence, a room was rented within the Fort walls and Wesleyan Mission Canarese School was started.

[8][9][10] According to William Arthur (an Irishman, after whom the William Arthur Memorial Church at Goobie is named after), the Wesleyan Canarese Mission was located in the Bangalore Petah, three miles from the Wesleyan Tamil Mission house.

The land for the Wesleyan Canarese Mission was obtained by Thomas Hodson, and was located just outside one of the town gates.

In 1840, Garrett and Jenkins were appointed as Wesleyan Canarese missionaries, with an authority to build a printing press and a mission-house.

They finally managed to buy an old dwelling by public auction in 1856, which had its front walls knocked off and some alterations made.

Thrice a week, missionaries preached from this wayside chapel, which attracted a crowd of 80-100 people who stood on the street to listen, while the children stayed inside the building, behind the preacher.

[4] The sketch of the Wesleyan Wayside Canarese Chapel appeared in the July 1857 issue of the 'Wesleyan Juvenile Offering' magazine.

Daniel Sanderson), describes the Wesleyan Mission School and Chapel in a Pariah village near the Bangalore Petah.

Further, she describes the social scorn and humiliation suffered by the Pariah community and how the church was helping them to gain confidence and dignity by providing education.

To the left of the Wesleyan Chapel was a low building, which had been altered and white-washed to serve as a school.

[13] A series of sketches associated with Wesleyan Mission School, currently in the possession of the Museum of Sydney and Basel Mission, Switzerland can be seen at the links below: In 1834, William Campbell of the London Mission raised a chapel on Infantry Road (between St. Andrew's Church and St. Paul's) in the Bangalore Civil and Military Station and, incurring a cost of BINR 8000 raised by public subscription, where services were held in Tamil, English and Canarese.

James Sewell, opened the first Canarese Girls School for the natives at the Bangalore Peta.

After the death of Jane, Benjamin married Catherine Muller, a widow of the German missionary Rev.

Catherine died in 1887, after which Harriet Muller took official charge of the boarding house, serving till 1911 when she retired.