WELLINGTON.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4701, 31 January 1884, Page 2

WELLINGTON.

, ■ ' This day. • At the WesTeyan Conference last night :_the report of Committees on the draft of | a book of discipline, and the District i Meeting's recommendation on the basis of a Methodist Union were presented and adopted. - The Rev. Mr Oliver was appointed to deliver the next Conference lecture, the subject to be " Inspiration." The following ministers and laymen were elected to the position of representatives to the next general Conference, to be held next November in Christchurch :—Presi-. dent and Secretary (ex officio), Revs. Read, Berry, Bavin, Oliver, Kirk, Williams, Lewis, and Lee; Laymen, Messrs Buddie, Hobbs, Moxham, John Manchester, George Perryman, Prime, Harris, King, and J. F. Wilson. The Auckland Theological Institution affairs were reviewed, and the balance-sheet read and adopted. The Revs. Bavin, Carr, Reid, Watkins, and Taylor were appointed lecturers on Theology, Hermeneutics, Ecclesiastical History, and Mental and Moral Science. The question of probationers who have resigned leaving unfulfilled liabilities for college training was considered, but no resolution adopted, the consideration of the matter being postponed till to-day. A form of agreement to be signed by all students entering the college in future was agreed to. The Conference is expected to close to day. At the Wesleyan Conference this morning, the consideration of cases of probationers who have resigned during the year, and have been received into the Episcopalian Church, leaving amounts due for collegiate training unpaid, was resumed, and the following resolution was unanimously passed :—" That the Secretary of the Conference be instructed to apply to former probationers for the Wesleyan ministry, who have lately been received into the Anglican Church, for payment of the sums owing by them, on account of their training ; and that he be further instructed that if such application fail in any case, to call the attention of the Diocesan Synod in the bonds of which they reside, to the impropriety of receiving as candidates for Holy Orders, men who have not honorably discharged existing financial obligations to a sister church. A vote of thanks was presented to the president for his services in connection with the Tararua Fund. The Revs. Carr, Simmonds, Dunbar, McNiccol, Bond, and C. Griffin, were appointed district Sunday School secretaries. It was decided to unanimously ask the next General Conference to constitute New Zealand an independent and separate Conference, on the basis of the Methodist Union Committees. The report of the President announced to the Conference that the late Rev. John Warren had bequeathed £100 to the Supernumerary Fund. The usual vote of thanks having been passed, the Journal was read, and the eleventh N.Z. Conference closed its session.