PRESBYTERIAN SYNOD.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2781, 16 January 1872, Page 3

PRESBYTERIAN SYNOD.

At to-day’s sederunt, the following business was transacted. The Synod having tpken up the overture submitted by certain hr its members ahent the disjunction of the Duiiedin Presbytery, 1 and the formation of a neiv Presbytery,' the Rev. -Mr Clark was heard in support, and ultimately he moved that Oamaru, Waikouaiti, Palmerston, Rampdec, and Naseby, be disjoined from Dunedin and created a separate Presbytery. After 'discussion the motion was harried by £ols & ' " My proposed the adoption of an pyerture to the effect that ministers be Uu Btruoted to address the'r congregations on the distinctive principles of the Church, The word “recommended" having been substituted for “instructed,” the overture was agreed to. . The Rev, A. H. Stobo brought up the report of the Sanctioning of Charge Committee, which submitted the application of the Clutha Presbytery to create Waitahuna a separate charge if it thought fit, coupled Avith a recommendation by the committee that Glonore should be disjoined from Tokomaririo and added to the proposed n p w district. The Synod, hoAvevcr, only agreed to the proposal of the Clutha Presbytery. The Synod adjourned to this evening, when the First Church case will be taken UP- ■