WESLEYAN CONFERENCE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1065, 31 January 1884, Page 2

WESLEYAN CONFERENCE.

[by telegraph ] Wellington, To-day. At the Wesleyan Conference this morning the consideration of cases of the probationers who have resigned during the year and have be.n received into the Episcopalian Church, leaving amounts due for collegiate training unpaid «as received. The following resolution was unanimously passed —“ That the secretary of the Conference be instructed to apply to the former probationers for the Wesleyan ministry who have lately been received into the Anglican Church for payment of sums owing by them on account of their training, and that he be further instructed—should such application fail in any case—to call the attention of the .Diocese and Synod, in the bounds of which they reside, to the impropriety of receiving as candidates for holy orders men who have not honorably discharged their existing financial obligations to a sister church.” A vote of thanks was presented to the President for his services in connection with the Tararua fund. Revs Carr, Simmonds, Baumbar, McNiooll, and C. Griffen were appointed district Sunday school secretaries. It was decided unanimously ac the next General Conference to constitute a New Zealand Independent and separate Conference on the basis of the Methodist Union Committee’s report. The President announced to the Conference that the late Rev John Warren had bequeathed UIOO to the Supernumerary Fund. The usual votes of thanks having been passed, the journal was read, and the eleventh New Zealand Conference closed its session.