AUCKLAND. PRESBYTERY MEETING.

Otago Witness, Issue 313, 28 November 1857, Page 5

AUCKLAND. PRESBYTERY MEETING.

This Court held its stated meeting on the 6th October, at 11 o'clock a.m. Public service was conducted by the retiring Moderator, the Rev. John Macky, of Otahuhu. The Rev. Thomas Nome, of Papakura, was chosen to be Moderator for the next year. Mr. Macky read letters in answer to communications forwarded by the Presbytery on the occasion of its being first constituted : from his Excellency the Governor, from her Majesty's Secretery for the Colonies, from the Moderator of the Presbytery of Otagp, and several other Ministers in New Zealand. The report on the Home Mission Fund was given in, and shewed that £161 6s. 9d. had been collected for the Mission since January. A committee was appointed to open up a correspondence with all the Presbyteries and Presbyterian Ministers in New Zealand, with the view of ascertaining whether they would be willing to co-operate with this Presbytery in the work of Foreign Missions, and what place it would be most desirable for them to select as the sphere of their united Missionary enterprise. After some other business of a more local.

nature was discharged, the meeting closed with devotional exercises. On the opening of the Supreme Court, on Tuesday, Mr. Bartley, the senior member of the Bar, rose on behalf of the gentlemen of the profession, to congratulate the Acting Chief Justice, Mr. Sidney Stephen, on his restoration to health, and his resumption of his duties after his severe indisposition. His Honor — who seemed much affected — in reply stated that he felt deeply the kind feeling evinced by the profession, from whom he had always experienced the utmost courtesy.— Southern Cross, Oct. 23.