WESLEYAN CONFERENCE

Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 54, 5 March 1901, Page 3

WESLEYAN CONFERENCE

(By Telegraph.-Fress Association.)

WELLINGTON, Monday.

The Wesleyan Conference met this morning in ministerial. session. It was resolved that the Revs. William Beckett, M. K. Gilmour, R. P. Keall, D. Weatherall, W. Wills, W. GreenBlade, J. H. Haslam, A. N. Scotter, W. B. Tuck, and B. Wilson, had passed in their respective years of probation. The Rev. B. P. Blamires was reported as having travelled one year. The Rev. A. Reader and the Rev. W. J Oxbrow were received on probation, and will be appointed to circuits Messrs C. Eaton, R, D. Pattchett, and Joseph Belton remain for a second year in the Prince Albert College ior further training. Several candidates for the ministry were orally examined, but consideration of their cases was not concluded when the session closed. ~~ n ta The conference met in representative session in the afternoon for contideration of the report of the com mittee on the administration ot tne church building and loan fund. A question was raised as to the power «E the committee, and the of the president that they had acted within their powers was ? ar™* b,J 81 to 18 votes. Speeches in support of the existing state of things were made by the Rev. J. J. Lewis and Dr. Morley/ and in support of some sug gested alterations in the managment of the fund by Mr A. C. C«g£J> ° Auckland. Further consideration ot the subject was then deferred to next session. ~ „+;__ o P rIn the evening M ™«f "*""\X, *c was held, the ceived as a minister on probation.