WELLINGTON.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4719, 21 February 1884, Page 2

WELLINGTON.

This day. Arrived: Hauroto, from Sydney, 'the Fenstanton has arrived at the Heads; all well. The Proposed, Congregational Union.

- At the preliminary mpeting of the United Committees of the Congregational Church of New Zealand, the Rev. Dr Roseby, of Dunedin, was proposed as Chairman by the Rev. J. Robertson, of Auckland, and the motion was seconded by the Rev. W. H. West, of Wellington, and carried unanimously. The Rev. T. Tonkinson. of Dunedin, and Mr Milne, of Auckland, were then elected secretaries pro tern. After prayer, for the welfare of the Union, Captain Daldy, of Auckland, proposed the , creation of a Congregational Union of New Zealand, and after some discus^ sion as to the desirability of procuring an Act of incorportion, the following resolutions which were seconded by the RevW, H. West, of Wellington, were agreed to:—" That the united committees of the Congregational Union of South New Zealand and of the Provincial District- of Auckland, agree to amalgamate."—"'That the unite 1 bodies do now proceed to form the constitution of the Union of South New Zealand, and partly from the schedules of the Now South Wales act of incorporation. The further quesi'on of having a church mission in connpetion with the union or not was also ventilated, and the matter of ultimately making the Congregational Union of New Zealand a corporate body, with legal powers, was left undecided. Latek.

The first meeting of the newly coustituted Congregational Union of New Zeeland was held tliis'moiuing. The following members p.nd delegal^s were present : Kers. Dr Rosily, Kobertsoj, l;i. J. "Wills, ICortson, Set*- Smith, Tonkinson, Jenocr, ■N. -M. Graut, H. Ycung, G. W. Sharp, W. H. West, and Messrs Daldy, Miloe, Cox, Mogiaie, S. Bailey, Clayton, Knowles, and Smith. The vriiole of the morning was devoted io the- consideration of the constitutions and by-laws. Saf.sfacto^y progress was obtdoed. The liev. G.-W. Sharp w:ll deliver his animal sermon to the Union this evening, and the ordinance of the Lord's Supper will be aJminidered at the close of the services.

Afc tlia Presbyterian Assembly this morning, the thanks cf the Assemb'j were £,iven to the ex-Moderator for his sermon. A reply from the Governor was received to the address from last Assenibly presented to him, a.'jd it wt:3 ordei j to be endorsed on the minutes. The petition from Gr nge Grant, to be restored to the position of a student evangelist, was referred to the Commltlee for consideration. Thejrep >rt on the petition from the Wellington Pres hj'orj, asking that it be divided into tyro. wes conceded, and the Presbytery of W*ioga \ii was appointed. A deputfttion

vrp.s appointed to convey to the Congregational TTnidii now sitting the fraternal greetings of this Assembly.