WESLEYAN DISTRICT MEETING.

Press, Volume XVIII, Issue 2668, 18 November 1871, Page 3

WESLEYAN DISTRICT MEETING.

FINANCIAL MEETING. Thursday, Nov. 16. la addition to the ministers, the following % representative* of the various circuits *«represeut—Messrs Gould, Turner, Harris, l>. Lewis, Dawson, and Artnitage, Christtirarch; Cumberworth and Wilson, St. Allans; Wilson and Thomson, Kaiapoi; Lawry, i - %riagston ; at.d J. B. Olliver, Lyttelton. I 'The statistics of the various circuits in the district-were read, showing that there ere 15J3 -fall and accredited church members, "Ml over 10,000 attendants on public worThe state of the church property was then 'Kviewed, and the following buildings were : Sported as having been completed during *w year—Christchureh: a new parsonage 1 *• * ooet of £900; St. Albans, a I Pasonage costing £900 ; and the I church, enlarged at a cost of % *HO.- Kaiapoi—A new ebarch, to seat 375 1 Pesoas. at a cost of £700. Balclutha —A « &<Bis church to seat 13Q persons, at a cost I «£420. Small churches had also been % tf^ fc at Waipori, io the Lawrence circ'iit ; a waifca, in the Timaru circuit; and Green- | ftase ia the Hokitika circuit; also an infant I «Wl at Timaru. The Springston church ;* «d ako been enlarged. I The following new erections. &c, were also I Suctioned : —Christchuf eh—The purchase of a of Church property in Montreal ***i> at a cost of £150; a new schoolroom ** tie Durham street church, to cost £500; Woolston. St. f&aas—lt was recommended that permission : b 7 c conference for the sale of «* old church and site at Riecarton. A <t is to be erected at a cost of £200. 4 w^ 885011 was granted to the Dunedin 3 Wfctees to sell the Stuart street parsonage i «att.e Cumberland street church property ; \ S? , *° trustees at Oamaru, to sell the I ™j™ ; and to those of Port Chalmers, to ''- tr * P lot of S A new church ia to 1? at Roxburgh, also one at Arahura § r*u« Hokitika circuit, and a parsonage % ssaseet Lawrence. - 1 v ll *as resolved that a Boilding Committee 1 Si ormed, to ** composed of the ministers s rT,^ stewards of the Christehnrch, 3 a". , hane ' snd L ?ttelton circuits ; and that I teiJ 1 s P ecifi cationß of all churches I 2S*° nages P^P to be erected in the f \ 6 * 4 be submitted to the said committee f w^M»roval. - 6 recei P ts of tQ e Home Mission and ■ lfew 8611 * Fund re found to be £357 j? W; the expenditure, including travelexpenses to district meeting and confertod grants to needy circuits amounted j -same sum. A small committee 1 «!r\2?° inted t0 con ßider the propriety this fand, committee to ff*y?] lowi O| morning. Aged MinisP , ? m from, cjr-

cnits, £179 lls; ministers'" subscriptions, £119 14s; total, £299 ss. Childrens , FundReceipts from circuits, £285; expenditure according t«y cenriexional regulations, £283 10s. The receipts for the Educational Fund Is 9d. The total amount raised for foreign Maori Missions in the district was found to be* £96 9s 10|d. After providing for,Te Kote, the native minister at Raupaki, and paying certain contingent expenses, the balance was voted thus :—Twothirds to the Maori Mission in the North Island, and the remaining third to the Island Missions. .