CABLE NEW.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 129, 1 June 1907, Page 5

CABLE NEW .

[bt electkio telegraph.—copyright ] METHODIST CHURCH. AN OVERSIGHT.

NEW ZEALAND DELEGATES NOT SATISFIED. [PBESS ASSOCIATION.] SYDNEY, 31st May. Dr. Youngman has been elected secretary to the, Methodist General Conference. The Rev. Mr. Slade complained that no New Zealander except himself had been asked to take part in any functions in connection with the conference. This was a bad blunder, and he was particularly eorry to have to make such a complaint in view of the feeling that was growing in New Zealand for a separate conference. Several members promptly expressed a wish to be relieved in favour of NewZealand visitors. The Rev. Woolls Rutledge- informed Mr. Slade that the matter was an oversight. He added that it would be difficult to alter the arrangements now that literature had been circuited. The Rev. W. Williams (president) referred to the fact that a reunion to be held 1 to-morrow night was called "a gathering of our own folk," and New Zealand evidently did not belong to "our own folk." Mr. Rutledge explained that that particular gathering was not able to carry more than four speakers, and in order to give Presidents of other States an opportunity to speak, the President of NewSouth Wales had also been left out. They could not do everything, even to phase New Zealand. The Rev. Henry Youngman, D.D., wa* born in Kiddenninste.-, England, iv December, 1648. and came to Goulburn, New South Wales, at the age of eleven years. He accepted for tho ininktTy in 1871, and has laboured in New Sout'i Wales, and Queensland, bsing now in Brisbane. In 1893 he was first President of the Queensland Cocfcience. and ho was also President of tho first United Conference in 1698. In his colony ho was the recognised leader of tha movement for Methodist union, and ha was elected President of the Fedaral Council. The- Rev. Mr. islad? is Pitoident of the New Zealand Methodist Conference, elected at the session he-Id in March list. He- is a strong pjrsorality in colonial Methodism, and had- been engaged in missionary work in Fiji for eighteen yea:* before cominp; to Nott Zealand some five years ago. Mr Slade has charjo of uhc Central Methodkt Mission in Dur.edin. The Rev. Woclls Rutledcro is a very prominent figure in New South Wal?s Methodism. Xew Zealand has s. contingent of nearly thhty delegates, clergy and laymen, at the conference ' The grave diccoiiricny shown to the Niw Zcnhnders by the oversight, which fonr.od the- subject of ,tho cable message v. ill t«:d to further strengthen the hands of the paTty in tho New Zealand Church -which has been endeavouring for yearn past to s:cur» Slams JRule for Netr ZeaJaiid-JfetTiodiV.s. At the paSt two New Zealand conferences big debates took place or a proposition that Nett Zealand should obtain a nsveranc2 from tho Arstrr.lian Conference. At tho conference held in Christchurch in "March last the motion was can-icd by okd vote. But when tho Rtv. Mr. Fahc'.oagh pointed ont that the Australian Conference would not entertain a motion carried by such a uaTiovr majority, it was decided aot to cend the motion on to Australia this year.