WESLEYAN CONFERENCE.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 3539, 1 February 1886, Page 3

WESLEYAN CONFERENCE.

(By Telegraph.) CnßiSTCiimtcii, Jan. 30. At the Wcsjeyan Conference to-day, a report on the state of religion m the churches was presented stating that tho ineroaso m church membership and attendants ou the Ministry was very largo. The Rev. G. Bond presented tho report on Sunday Schools, showing the number of schools to be 208, with 17,000 scholars. Notices of motion was handed m calling attention (1) to tho loss of the elder scholars from Sunday-schools, and (2; the too common desecration of the Sabbath. It was resolved to embody a rocommendation re pastoral visitation m a. paragraph m i tho pastoral address,

A draft report of tbo appointments of homo missionaries for next yoar was submitted and adopted. Permission was granted to 801 l the following ■ church cites, tho proceeds to bo dovoted to tho purchase of moro suitablo ones, viz. : — At Kingsland (Auckland), Grahamstown and Shortland (Thames), Ngaruawhaia. (Hamilton), two sections at Gisborno, ono at Geraldino (Canterbury), and Opaha (Dunedin), and ' Waikouaiti (Otago). Lists of now erections wero supplied, also sanction given for tho following : — Auckland — North Shoro, now church and parsonage, with new school at Noithcotc ; second parsonage at Graf ton road j a new church at tlie Thames and Kingsland ; Paparoa, a now church ; Wairoa, a parsonage j Hokiaiigu, two churches ; Whangaroa, Kaca, and Palmerston North, new churches ; Dur- . ham street, new schoolrooms j ditto at Crescont road j St. Albans, Riccarton, now church ; Kaiapoi, new organ gallery ; Rangiora, a school j Dunedin South, a parsonago or church ; Mornington, a parsonago ; Port Chalmers, a Sunday schoolroom; Invereargill, a parsonage.