THE WESLEYAN CONFERENCE.

Timaru Herald, Volume XL, Issue 2919, 31 January 1884, Page 2

THE WESLEYAN CONFERENCE.

" WBHIHGTOH, J«». 80. The Wosleyan Conference pieriiai'jJM hold yesterday and was very triceetiful, ««er 400 persons being present.' At the Conference this morning tbo Foreign Mission Band wns reviewed. The Socretary read the irjodme for •tha past jrear, the result being a» ftrtlowe : — Auckland diftrict, £135 Il3« 9d j Waoganui, £20 lie Id 5 Wellington, £44 I9af Nelson, £21 3< 6d; Canterbnif, £18* IS* 5d j Otago, £28 Os 7d. Arrangements wtMmade f/>r the ri«it o( Or Kilnaokera tb tb« ioolony, for the adveoacy of the fufad. ' The^'jueßtion o{ tra'aafer of Cbareb property is ooir acder consideration. ■~""' ■-■-•■ — - ■-—-—^'fMIBB. At the Wesleyau Conference this at'ternoon Mm annual report of the Sew Zealand Weslejan Committee wa> rfdi by tbo Hey. W. Xinsley, and adopted. ~sbs thanjt* of the Conference were presented to. the. Bjv, John Crump, for bin rerrices a» Editor of the New Zealand Wcsleya*, and .tbe BeT,,W. J. Williams was appointed Editor for t)p» year. The Committee waf than ted, aod.reaf pointed. It was decided: to change the n»tno of the paper to. the Jfea Zealand Meth&Utt, and the Committee was , reoommßnded to take stepg for a weekly i«»tte t>f the paper. At the Wesleyan Conference this orening, the reports of ' Committee* on Hie drajt of a book of discipline, »od the dittrictj rieeting recommendalions on the ba«U 'of the Methodist Union, were ; pretetried and adopted. ' '' . • ' • ''■'■■ The Bey. Mr Oliver -was fcppc<oted to deliver the next Ojnforeno* leßtor*, tin snbjeot to'be '• InspiratiW." ' The following miniiters Bnfl laytien were elected to the potition of~repreaenlstires to 'the next General Oonferenoo- t*be held next 'Voveipber" m Pbristclrnreh -r— lfmnters : The President and Secretary ex o^ftjjpkßevs. Beid, Berry. Bavin, Oliver, Kirlr^ JJVflliams, Lewis atid Lee ; laymen '; : Me4«r» Buddie, Hobbs, Moihsm, John Manchester, George Ferryman, Prince, Harris, King, and J. £. Wilson. : ; '■> . [Kit The Auckland Thoologicil Institution aff&irs were Vevieved; and tb* ibulsnOß nhoet read and adopted. The Revs. Bavin, Eeid, Cairns, WatVins, and, Taylor were uppointed lecturers on Theology, Booiesiattioal History, and Mental and Morel •Bcie*H». ; ;Thi> question of probationers wild hare resigned, leaving unfulfilled liabilities for College training, was considered, but no resolution was adopted, th« cOnsideratipn of _the_ matter boing postponed till Thur«3ayi A form r oF igfecment to be ligß'ad^ly'rUli 'students entering the College m future was agreed tor ■— - • - The' Conference i» ezpabted to^oEse tomorrow. O H . £ .