THE WESLEYAN CONFERENCE.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3904, 24 January 1884, Page 3

THE WESLEYAN CONFERENCE.

Wellington, This day. At the Wesleyan Conference yesterday the annual report of the general secretary of Sunday Schools was read, a ho wing an increase in every department of this work. The thanks of the Conference were presented to the Rev. George Bond, and he was reappointed general secretary. The Conference was unable to comply with the request of the Auckland district to appoint an itinerant evangelist, there being no minister available for the purpose. An influential temperance deputation waited on the Conference and presented an address. The Revs. Messrs Lewis and M'Nichol replied, and a resolution' favorable to temperance was adopted. The following is the second reading of the ministerial appointments for 1884 :— Auckland district: Pitt street, the Revs. Messrs Reid and Oarr; "Wesley College, the Rev. Mr Watkin ; North Shore, the Rev. Mr Spence ; Graf ton road, the Revs. Messrs Bavin and Griffith; Thames, the Rev. Mr Bull; Upper Thames, the Rev. Mr Wills ; Coromandel, the Rev. Mr Pinfold ; Manakau, the 'Rev. Mr Taylor; Wuiuku, the Rev. Mr Luxford; Cambridge, the Rev. Mr Dewsbury; Hamilton, the Roy. Mr Dukes; To Awamutu, the Rev. Mr Dean ; Raglan, tho Rev. Mr Barber ; Kaipara, the Rev. Mr Gittos; Paparoa, tho Rev. T. N. Griffin ; Wairoa, the Rev. Mr Brooko; Hokianga, tho Rev. Mr Hammond; Bay of Islands, the : Rer. Mr Marshall; Whangarei, the Rev. Mr Dellow ; Tauranga, the Rev. Mr Parsonson ; Gisborne, the Rev. Mr Slado. ' "Wauganui district: New Plymouth, the Rev. Mr Lee ; Wuitara,'the Rev. Mr Fee ; Patca, the Rev. Mr Liiwry; Opunake, tho Rev. Mr Mather; Wanganui, the Rev. Mr Bond; Rangitikei, the Rev. Mr Smith; Sandon, tho Rev. Mr Law; Palincrston North, the Rev. Mr Bunn. ' " Wellington district: Wellington, tho Revs. Messrs Oliver and Baumber; Hutt, the Rev. Mr Garlick; Greytown, Homo missionary ; Mastertbn, , the Rev. Mr Isett; Napier, tho Revs. Messrs Lewis and Jones. Nelson district: Nelson, the Revv Mr Beck ; Richmond, the ReV. Mr Kirk ; Motueka, a Homo missionary; Blenheim, the Rev. Mr M'Nichol; Hokitika, the Rev. Mr Abemethy ; Kumara, a Home missionary ; Greymouth, the Rev. Mr Liixford. "Canterbury cjistrtict j Christchurch, Durham-streot, tho Roys. Messrs Best and Simmonds ; Colombo-street, • the Rev. Mr Crump; St. Alban's, , the Revs. Messrs Morley and Garland; Lyttelton, the Rev. Mr Williams; Springston, the Rev. Mr .Connell; Malvonv a Home missionary; Leeston, the Rev. Mr KealL; Kaiapoi, tho Rev. Mr Tinsley; Rangiora, jtho Rev. Mr Rowse ; Woodend, the Rev. Mr. Hudson ;■ Amberly, a Home missionary; Timaru, the Rev. Mr Faii-cloug-h; Waiinate, the Rev. Mr Gray; Temuka; tho Rev. P. Wills; Ash- . burton, the Rev. *Mr Standage. • .. ■ . Otago district;. JDunedin, Trinity Church, the Revs. Messrs Berry and Smalloy;, Hyde, a Home missionary; Momington, the Roy. Ilv Ivlurray i Port Chalmers, tho Rev. Mr Thomas j-Balcluthiij. the Roy,:Mr Salten; Jjawpeiioo, thalW.Q- CU'Win; Invevcamll,, tho I],ev. Mi. MartwiilQamacn, tho Roy, Mrßishwor.th;;GoreandTap.auui, the Rev. Mr Buttle.- •.•■.' > ■• i A public , meeting"furtUe ordiuatwn of three yminjj for the wnigtry

was held last night in Wesley Church, The secretary presented to the President the Revs. Brook, Griffin, and Dukes, and they were ordained by the imposition of hands. A large congregation was present. The charge was preached by the Rev. A. Rind, who selected "Holiness" as his theme, and the peculiar fitness of the Methodist Church organisation to spread Scriptural holiness throughout the land. This morning the united sessions of the Conference commenced. Twenty-five laymen from various parts of the colony took thoir seats. Committees wrre appointed on Home missions, new Book of Discipline, and connexional privileges. Several matters of departmental business were transacted. A request to sell landed property at Wanganui was refused.