CONGREGATIONAL UNION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81918, 8 February 1907, Page 2

CONGREGATIONAL UNION.

Per Press Association. Dunodin, February 7. The annual meeting of the Council of the Congregational Cmou of New X-.-tlainl was begun this morning. A telegram was received from the Hon. t;. L-Whls. conveying his greetings and regretting thai business would prevent bis presence on Tuesday as he bad inleaded. The chairman welcomed to the meeting the Rev. W ]). McLaren. (of k'nghuul), Kev. J. E. and Mrs New. cli (.if Samoa), and Key. W. M. Grant (lali- of South Australia, anil now of Per, Chalmers).

The twenly-foiirth annual report of the Comuiilloe of the Union was read by the Secretary (Uov.Johu Wilkins), an 1 was subsequently approved It recorded the translci- of the liev.-S.Gnf--111 lis from Nelson to Devonport, the vacancy of Nelson being filled by Rev. li ; 1; Thoma-; and the return o'f Kev. W. M. Grunt to Port Chalmers to re-pla-o the Kev. K. Taylor, Inusferred to Richmond, "X'iytoria. At the request of the Coniuiiltee, the Kev. K Mitchell, alter three and a-balf year's work at' lynvbia mission, was removed to To Ivmli to start, a new home mission, bis place at Ivawhia beiia- taken bv Kev. C .10. Davidson, bf Newton Church. (Auckland), which remains without a minister. The report also recorded the probability of anew church being opened at Alicelown, a suburb of Wellington, a grant of a church site having already been made by Mrs Williams. \ arious districts reports were submit, lei,