PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 261, 5 November 1901, Page 3

PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY.

HOT DISCUSSION OYER THE MODERATOR'S DRESS. PER PHB3S ASSOCIATION*. Dunedin, November 4. At the Presbyterian Afsembly today, the Moderator le't the chair during the discuss'O'i of the motion by the Rev. Diwsoa tint ths divts worn by tho Moderator of this assembly be dispans-'d with in future. A heated discussion follow d, the Rev. Cameron going as fur as to say no Assembly ?h';uld 'dictate to him what dress b>> should the Assembly. Various amendments to the motion were moved, the previous question moved by ttn Rev. Hewitsoo >wii»g carried. The temperance report stated that levidence «a« not wanting thit townships on the Main T runk railway line r>f the Norrh Island, formerly wi'bout licences, a f e in a much worse s'ate sinew licer s a have been granted, and it would bi t'-e Rim« in the King ■'onntry. The church should rais* its voice against the » h-ile-alu consumption of liquor by nativts as permit I "ed in th» T-rannki district Tse A s-emhly adop'ed that sp-irial temperance stimons be preached in each rh-rge during the ye>r, that a special effort be made to increase the number of total abstainers in the church, that the Houw of R pres=n'a-t-ives be petitioned asking that stringent measures be enforced to suppress, i.ho wholesale consumption of intoxicant-' among tha Taran&ki native. A cor vers l zione is bung hold this evcnir'g-