WELLINGTON PRESBYTERY.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 5805, 24 January 1906, Page 5

WELLINGTON PRESBYTERY.

I!KSIGNATION OK Till-: HKV. UOBKI’T WOOD. Yo-ter.-lav afternoon a 'ptvial imTtin* . f the Wellington Pie,-by:ei v »r< hrVl in St. .lohn’> flnm-h. tho Wov W , jut- iiliu? in the ct the Moderator. The special purpose for which tin' meeting ivn* called *a' the ccn-idera-t ion of a 101 lor Horn the I!ov Robert Weed. intimating hi* resignation 01 the charge cl Ma-terlcn. on arecnnl of his having received the appoi"'nuiit of e gainsing agent c: the Otaga tin--. oilin', ion Knud. A lengths- re-obit ion wa.s moved bathe [{-v j'r.mo- Paterson. accepting .Mr Wood - resignation. expressing appreeiation of his services. eongratnlattiug him t.jion hi- appointment. and wishing I>sni every surer-s in his neiv sphere ol Inborn-.' The resolution also rl-f.-rnxl to the personal iptalitie.s of Mr Wood, the fraternal relations that had always existed between him anal the Presbytery. the siu-ee.-s ef hr) church wori: in Mattel ton, and the value of his infte.enee in promoting .serial and moral reform'. Mr M; Lean seconded the revolution, and he and all the other mctnhe:s of the Prisbytery luaitily concurred in the expres-'ini;-. of e-lecm for Mr Word embodied in the niotihn. The resolution was unanimously agreed to. aml the Presbytery limn Inrrn-.lly declared the pastoral charge vi M-i-sto: ton congregation to be vacant. The Kev. Ml Shirer moved, and the Rev Mr Pater on si ronded. that the Rev J. Kennedy l-'Unitl be aptninir 1 Moderator “ad inteiim" of the Mi'-.b.'i-ton charge, which was also ran led unanimously. Mr Word's re -Agnation tabes effect from March !th next.