WESLEYAN QUARTERLY MEETING.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume III, Issue 194, 6 January 1882, Page 2

WESLEYAN QUARTERLY MEETING.

[communicated.] Yesterday the office • bearers of the Patea circuit held their quarterly meeting in the Regent-street Church, Hawera, when, amongst other business, the following was transacted : — Accounts passed : Income for the quarter, £97 os. 7d. Expenditure : £111 3s. 3d., leaving deficit, £14 2s. Bd. This is owing to extra expenditure incurred by purchase of horse, saddle, and bridle. Tho subscriptions and collections also have, to a certain extent, been affected by the cost of Manaia Church erection and the unfavorable weather which has prevailed for several Sundays during the past quarter. Opunake having for some time been urgently bringing before the Rev. D. McNicoll, chairman of the district, their need of a resident minister, requesting that Mr. Ensor be, if possible, transferred from Hawera to Opunnke, Mr. McNicoll laid the matter before the office-bearers, who, after considerable discussion, agreed to the transfer, on condition that Mr. Eusor visits Hawera every alternate Sunday until Conference sends an assistant minister to help Rev. Mr. Luxford. Owing to important business in connection with this circuit coming before the Annual Confereno meeting, hi Christchurch, at the end of the present month, tho meetiug expressed its desire that the Roy. J. A. Luxford should attoud tho session. This will, of course, entail some little sacrifice, Ins pulpit appointments having to bo filled by local supplies for two Suudays ; but the necessity for proper I reprosontation being 60 ' great, the office- ! bearers hoped the congregations would take it into consideration, and that. we should not suffer nuauoially by his absence. A proposition by Mr. Hawken (senior circuit steward) was carried, to the following effeot : — " As several members of our congregations aro unacquainted with our system of financial support, the ministers, on the Sunday next following quarterly meeting, shall rend a statement of income and expenditure, and explain from whence and in what manner that income is derived and how expended. Messrs. J. Hawken nud R. Dingle wore unanimously re-elected circuit stewards for the ousniug yoar. The trustoes of 4 ho Hawera Church hope during the ciureuoy quarter to see tho dobt still on the building wiped off by the procoeds of the tea meeting on Tunsday evening next, and other efforts, so that thoir handß may be free to provide the increase! accommodation which is so much needed. A rule" which has in the post been

mpflLCie' 1 . lii this cnou-fc wu , r..i the fotuiv, le '■airbed out, viz., a btuk recording amount of collections at each service, will be left in the Pa tea and Hawera Churches; open to inspection.