WESLEYAN CHURCH.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LI, Issue 5575, 4 January 1879, Page 6

WESLEYAN CHURCH.

i The quarter]/ meeting of the Durham etreat circuit was held 1M the to* try of the Church . on, Monday eraningje|t| the Bar W, Morley i prtfcldhjg/ Owßrw f the holiday*, the attendance ofoffloe.h«arer* was scarcely to largcakususL I The return Of Church members presented I by the Ohalrman showed an increase of 8. Messrs BalUntyna and Harris, ; Circuit i Stewards, pretentedth* financial statement, showing an income of £241 15* 3d, with mj expenditure of £2OO IPs M. An additional sum of £220 had' been raised daring (he j qxAHtar for Mome Mlsrton. T|w Bteparfa garo notice that at the next meetttg they | would more ’(in 1 addftionof £IOO pet annum •to the superintendent minister's stipend. The !*teti*tU!s of the Sunday schools were subi mitted,showing that at Durham street, B»»t belt, ahd ; 'WdOl*fion, .(here aw in all 71 teachers and 778 teholart, with an average ettendancs of MS. Irwas reportod that the i corner section adjoining l tbe East belt church bag-been Tmirthased with a flaw 1 to the f erection of wmOweoiainedhMucburoh in that kwalitm and’ al*6 that ad exosllcnt rite hid been secured on the main mad at Wooklon, to which the Truetaee iotemUld removing the prisenfcchuroh. Sanction war >Mwn to the application of i tba-Beatbcote Vaucy trosteee for the sale of the church ■ site,w-flaw one havingbe«m ac* qUirad, and the obnrob removed thereto. ' Other nutters iniomiatitm to church extension were remitted to • Committee. On v ballot being Itakan. Meeirr-C. W. Turner, iJ| L.: WUeon, i ana) E. OJ Mouldey were elocted lay Representative# to the Auck!land Contetence. ■•.<•. fj-i ? . The Ber.A. Bmd was invited to euoceed Mr Morley m ?. the: Superintendent of the Oircuit. .;•■;! x>'-t ; • , ; t In caM tha propoaition of the district ! mtotpig respecting the. bolding of the annual coufewnoes in, Chrbtohurch and -:Wcllington alternately be accepted, an iuntatlon waa given to the ; to hold the session of 1 In tjuiolliy.n -U--! i-r;v 'i;*. ‘■.•y-.m,'.- <■ • meeting olosed clan etoly hour*