NELSON.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3777, 4 February 1881, Page 2

NELSON.

This day. TJie "Wesleyan Conference. The remaining busiuess at the Wesleyan Conference yesterday is as follows : —It was resolved that when a traTelling preacher was so unacceptable or inefficient to be no longer useful, Conference mightask him to request allocation, and, on refusal, that Conference at first meeting thereafter should, without trial, locate him without his content, was agreed to. That a book of discipline be provided by the general Conference suitable for the people, and Other resolutions bearing on the constitution of quarterly meeting. The desirability of Methodist Union dhureh rales, etc., were discussed and carried. Votes of thanks to ministers of the NelBon circuit, and the reception committee for the great assiduity and kindness which they displayed id the arrangements for the Cof^Vrence, and*: the comfort of th»

representatives; to the ladies who waited at the dinner tables, and to the friends who displayed such unbounded hospitality in entertaining the ministers were carried. Thanks also presented to J3ro. Williams, assistant secretary; Eev. Carr, journal secretary; Key. S. Bond, corresponding 'secretary; to .Revs. Armitage, Fairclough aritl, JBond, for reporting, and to the local press journal was then read and signed by the president and secretary. It was decided to hold the next conference in 1882 at Christchurch. * This closed one of the most important^and interesting conferences held in New Zealand, and many of the representatives left by the steamer which was detained till a late hour last night.