WESLEYAN CONFERENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 47, 11 March 1901, Page 2

WESLEYAN CONFERENCE.

Piß PRESS ASJCCIATI6N, Wellington, March 8. The Rev. Mr. Motley was raappainttd Concexional Secretary. It was un jnimoubly resolved to amalgamate the Advocate with the Outlook on mufuilly advantageous terms. The of the contingent fund was adop ed.

It j.*as resolved that negotiations ba entered into with the Primitive Methodist Ohurch officials of this colony with a view of having the union of the Methodist Caurchcs consummated throughout Australasia in 1902. Wellington, Mai oh 10.

At the WefWan Couf.ariniC'j arrangements we' e considered with reference to a deputation to visit tbe diftvß.nt riis•'ricts of tbo colony and advocate the C iUi-0 of fo i eij>n missions. The amount contribu o 1 to this fund wss £I2OO. The R-;v. Lowis than referred to tli» ac'ion of Bishop Neville in licensing Mr. Shirley Baker to rtpresoat the Ansli-nh Church as a missionary in Tonga, and then moved t\io approving rosilution \v!4oh wa* carried unanimously. U'ho Rev, Simmonds pr«sspted a rip rfc of he Three Kings Wesley College, Auckland, with a proposal for he erection of a new colloge tmildings on a o mplo'f scale., In support of the claim fur aid to this tcheme it was shown (hat the conditions ut.der which tho Institution was begun had been lathfuliy carried out by giving Maori toys chiist'an education, industrial t'a ning, and instruction in the English language. The report and balancesheet wore adopted and the proposal to '■rtct b iil'liiiL'S apprrvd.