PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8115, 10 November 1904, Page 3

PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY

TO-DAYS PROCEEDINGS. [PHE^S ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, November Vj. The Presbyterian General AssemhU icstuned this morning. The Rev. l>.i>ni Uorrie, of Dunedin, was nominated *.•.•!- erator for 1905. A committee on n jcsentatives to General Assembly iiksc.( n recommendation aiming at changing Ihe mode of fleeting delegates to the asu'inhly. The recommendation was n-jnicd by a large majority. Rev. fiorrie brought down n detailed scheme fur the amalgamation of the church or homr mission funds of tho northern and southern sections of tin* church. The schpme made provision for the appointment of an agent whose whole time should be given to the work of building up the fund. The mover said it would take two years to perfect the > amalgamation. It was resolved to send ' j the scheme to Presbyteries, Deacon's | Courts and Committees of Management, the committee to report the result of tho reference to next Assembly. It was decided that Dr Sidey should continue as clerk and treasurer for another year, and a committee was set up to enquire into the arranging and control j of the Assembly's finances and report at j next year's meeting of Assembly. j The temperance report was adopted. The j report stated that on the whole there was in the Presbyterian Church a solid and growing purpose to work for, and to give no - license a reasonable chance ' of proving its effectiveness as a remedy for the known evils of drunkenness before touching a system (of State control) that was wholly untried in the colony, and that has no prospect of commending the approval of an adequate number to give v legislative effect to it. The report adds, , ".Moreover your committee feels that it . should be known thitt those who have had a taste of the. benefits of no-license are . the most -pronounced in their opposition to j the license sybtrm." '

Messrs WliillaUer, Whittaker and Co. ; will sell a largo quantity of goods at their i Central Auction Mart on Saturday, at 1 p.m., without reserve. There is something to suit everybody. Hawera poundkeoper givrs nolirr of mi- ( ' pounding of red heifer. At the mart, on Saturday, a varied and nttraetive lot of furniture:, fowls, and general sundries is to be offered.