Synod Meetings. [BY TELEGRAPH.]

Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 105, 31 October 1888, Page 2

Synod Meetings. [BY TELEGRAPH.]

, [united press association. I Dunbdin, 30th October. . The Diocesan Synod was opened this ' afternoon, Archdeacon Stocker, in the absenco of the Bishop, presiding. Dr. ' Beloher, the Bishop's Commissary, read a ' brief report. ,At the request of the Grand Seoretary of the 1.0. G.T., it was decided 1 to receive a deputation from the Good Templars. Among the notices of motion is \ one to provide parishes with a mode of ' relief from the ministrations of clergymen 1 whose doctrines, etc., are suoh to alienate the majority of the parishioners, although I possibly not such as to obtain removal on ' appeal to the Ecclesiaatioal Courts. I The Presbyterian • Synod of Otago and Southland opened this evening. The Moderator, Rev. J. Baird, haying referred \ to the death of the Han. Dr. Menzies, gave an address on the latent power of the I Churoh. The Salmond controversy, it is 1 believed, is likely to be revived. Usually when committees are appointed no opposition IS raised, but when the motion to appoint a records committee was made, an amendment was made proposing an entirely new committee. Among the notices of motion is one to hold the next sitting at Invercargill.