METHODIST CONFERENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7760, 11 March 1905, Page 2

METHODIST CONFERENCE.

(Per I'rcMt AwociaUon.) WKLUNUTON, Hum, W . The llt'ltiuiiiat Confrivnct resumed to-day. • Thu Jli'V. J. \V. I'orler, miwiotl»ry deputation from Fiji, attfdjiJ. >n«l spake of the great need tor wialionary work amongst tin ladtaife* Joollcs in Fiji. A deputation from the New SCeaand Ailiadce at/tended, and tugs* .ho amlatanea of Father Hay's aula* lion. He itov. F. M, n narks on the gubj«ct were corauuiy coeivod. At Ute Mfthod'nt Conference th's Utoraoon the report l on naval and ullitao' affaire was pretested by tlx Rev, J. A. Luxford, and adopted. It [vferrod to tho nett rogWutiona thereby two NoK ZJoaiaod miUlaey chaplains may be appointed to each battalion, It «*» agreed to npommeod minMera in various centiwa U> apply for notne of the apfwtetiiitutu. Xt van alao through the Rev/R. w- AUm, Ww- ■* toyan aeoior chaplain, to apply trt^. Methodist ministers, recognised by Admiralty, to HvJimi «rvi« on board the JEL in New Zealand waters. Vfcnhar that the Kev. J. A. Luxford to ap! pointed by the Admiralty aa tawl chaplain for tbe whole of New 2W land, and an officiating (or each of the port* viaited by H.M. wanMp*. The Hev. J. J, L«aria secretary of the Home ' iww&ipn of «'Weh Mad Un of the Conference. j t ,» thc income for 1003 will l-27a« expenditure JJB32L Last }var there wot considerable Increase ill Income over the assessments, a«t this year it f» hoped that a special rotinng Home Marion collection will bo taken up during the year in der to liquidate Iho increased defldf. It was agreed to permit a WKdai appeal being mode throughout (ha olony on behalf of the buying JgoJ »m 1 C at Rotorua. Mr g, f, Allen was apiKnmnl treasurer. Hear- «' thanks were accorded to the ate. rotary and treasurer, Hovs. J, J F - Lpri,uc> wh ° —• •*