WESLEYAN CONFERENCE.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XXVI, Issue 7761, 3 March 1894, Page 2

WESLEYAN CONFERENCE.

\ REV, L. ISITT AND THE TEMPERANCE WORK. OiniisTCH'-Rorr, March 2 ; Tub Wcsloyan Conference met at 9.30 ■ a,m, '■ Rev. Mr Lawrj , nave notice to move 1 "That candidates bn examined in thco- ' logy by a committee of the Confer- ' ence, who shall report the results ',: with recommendations, the Conference ! reserving to itself the right to make any , further enquiry, or examination, and to , finally dispose of the ease of each candi--1 date, the committee to consist of the ' President,of the Conference, and Rers.l Smalley, Simnionds, Williams, Martin,) [ Furlough, I Prior, Baumber, Luxford, ! Duke, Parson, Beecroft, and the mover, , the examination to be conducted by either the President or hia appointee. : The report of the Rev 1 J. H. Simraonds on the examination of 1893 was read. The following probationers passed in their respective years:—Messrs Noll,' Sinclar' Pergeraan; Frost, and Harrison, On account solely of illness Messrs Elliott and Smith were not oassed, Mr Bellhouse was received on probation for circuit work; Messrs Ashcroft, Dawson, and Lockbore were continued as students for the second yoar. Some discussion took place on the recomendation of the Canterbury district meeting that the Rev. L. M. Isitt be allowed to continue his present temperance work. Ultimately it was decided that he should be allowed another year. Tho Rev. J. W. Watkiris was placed on the supernnraary list. At the request of the Wanganui circuit, the Rev. R.H.JJudkius was received on probation on transfer from Australia. The Rev. P.'Veile, minister of the Methodist Church, America, was received into full connection, but on financial probation for four years, At tho afternoon sitting committees were appointed to report on the affairs of the New Zealand Home Missions. The District meeting's recommendations and connexional balance-sheet's recommendation of the Auckland, distmet, that the Rev, Gittos should be appointed superintendent of the whole Maori work in thai , , district, and that he should reside in Auckland, were referred to the Home Mission Committee to re< port. The following new circuits were estab.liseed: Stratford, Eketohima and Riverton mission stations. Liter. At the Wesleyan Conference, Welling'ton, Napier, St. Albans, and Wakatipu ] circuits were exempted from taking ad- .'• ditiona! married ministers this year, and i Leeston was freed from taking a second i minister, A third prcachor was granted to Auck- ] land (Pitt street circuit), to reside at i Mount Albert. ] Cablegrams of greeting were roceivod j from the Victorian, New South Wales, South Australian, and Queensland Con- ; ferences, and from the WO.T.U,, as- ,\ SGinbled at Invercargill, and responded to. ■ ' ■ Mr J', A, Crump was transferred to <\ the New South Wales Couforonce for i f oi'oign raissiou work, I