DUNEDIN PRESBYTERY.

Otago Witness, Issue 2813, 12 February 1908, Page 52

DUNEDIN PRESBYTERY.

The usual monthly meeting of the Dunedin Presbytery was held on the 4th. Th* Rev. H. B. Gray, Moderator, presided, and the attendance was fair. The Rev. R. Fairmaid wae appointed Moderator for the Lee Stream and Hindon mission districts. Mr J. W. Shaw, M.A., was duly licensed as a probationer, and will assist the Rev. W. Hewitson at Knox Churoh. It was resolved to 6end a letter of sympathy to the Rev. William M'Donald, whose two brothers had died at Melbourne within a day of each other. The Rev. W. T. Todd read the report of a committee appointed to inquire into the- advisability, or otherwise, of oertaiu ecclesiastical movements near Naeeby. Th-j committee recommended that the church at Lower Kyeburn bs transferred to Patearoa. conditional on fortnightly services beinjr held there. — This wae agreed to. The committee' also recommended that the manse at Patearoa be removed to Waipiata, as local feeling seemed to trend that wavThe Rev. J. Chisholm ©aid 1 he thought the Presbytery should not be altogether guided by local opinion in these matters. The Presbytery had certain ecclesiastical duties to perform, and these should not bosubordinated to wdiat appeared to be local interests, possibly centred in one individual. The Rev. Mr Kinmont pointed out that ther° were only two Presbyterian families at Waipiata, the remainder being Anglicans and Wesleyans. It was also urced that, though the Presbytery had the right to out its foot down firmly, it must be careful not to do so unjustly. It was moved by the Rev. Mr Borne that the matter be postponed for 12 .months, when the parish might have become more united. ij.ii. This was lost, and it was resolved that the recommendation of the committee- b« heartily agreed to. The committee's recommendation concerning the severance of Lower Kyeburn from Mount Ida parish was referred to the commission to confer with the congrega- ]< An application from Roslvn for a arrant of £4^ for the erection of a manse, iincl for £75 for the site was granted. It was rosohed that tho Merk call for the st~.=ion records to be laid on the table at the March meeting: treasurers book* al*o to be railed for, with the other records, and special notices to this effect to be sent Ot The next ordinary meetinir will He held on tho first Tuesday in March, at 10.15.

A<? illustrative of how the Australian tariff is operating against New Zealand the Southland Timps mentions that the Maheno took only 2000 ft of timber from t.ho Bluff and 137 tons from all ports for Melbourne. Thp Moeraki, coming in from Melbourne, had 6CO tons of cararo for the Bluff alone. In describing the Chinese eavalrv, a cordesDondpnt a.sserts that horses in finer condition do not exist in any army in the world. He says that the Chinese is a born horseman, who has nothing to learn from Europe or America in the handling of horses, though he is ignorant of veterinary scienca.