METHODIST CONFERENCE.

Greymouth Evening Star, 24 February 1906, Page 3

METHODIST CONFERENCE.

[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION'.]

IH'NKDiX. F.I. i-1. The Methodist (*'■*nof New Zealand 1 1 • ■l< 1 its li si mi* ting D i- evening in tin' IVinily Melnodist Chio'i li. Tii re was ;i large attend.in. ivii-. sfni: i\ - -, < rical and lay. 'Xlit* l.Vv .1. Xewman llnttle ami delivered tlie President d aldie.-s. 1 he rev gentleman said iheie li el been r.o'buniing questions d iring (!►• year. Re (lien reviewed al length (he events of tdie year and in limited t .at the <jn> s(ion of an independent self-governing eotd'er enee for New Zealand would be the nm.-t important matter t" i onte tip. 'ihc President having been thank d for liis address the election of a new IV, sub nt was taken, and the Kev T. (i. iltoo e, ( f Morningtm. was eleetedon tliciirst ballot by 11 out of lid. The tier C. it. Laws was re-elected Secretary. DUNKDI.V. Ft 1. 2il. At the Methodist Conforenee the .'Rationing t'ommittee was at work all the afternoon, and will bring up the (iiv-t reading of stations to-morrow. 'I he number of Church members in the colony on September, 11 It 15, wa<: - Auckland District. ;::!|!); Wanganui, 10 S; \\ ellinglon, 2IMt!; Xel«on, 105(5; Canterbury, :t7sii; (>1 ago, 2107 ; Maoris, (till: total turopem members, 11,(Oil, or an increase of dss. The Maori members show a d-etva>e of 11. To-niglil the m tubers were enierlained at a musical festival, given by the untied choirs of Dunedin.