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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1511, 17 October 1883, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

Press Association,

BAPTIST .'CONFERENCE.

;> ' • -Nelson, October 15. The annual session of the Baptist Conference commenced to-day. Seventeen Ministers aii'd delegates assembled, and the President, the Eev. 0. Carter, oMfonsonby, was in the Chair. The annual report showed that nineteen churches had sent annual collections to the Union. The net increase in membership was 207, the total membership being 2230. New churches had been formed at Oamaru and Mosgiel. The Sunday Schools contain 2800 scholars and 322 officers and teachers.. Property and buildings costing. £2680 have been acquired during the year, The treasurer's report showed receipts to the amount of £lO2 15s 2d, and expenditnre : £l7 7s, leaving a balance in hand of £BS 8s 7d. A sum of £lO had been voted for supplies to the church at Oamaru. A request from the Canterbury Baptist Association, inviting the Union to take charge of the New Zealand Baptist, and make it a journal for the whole denomination, was agreed to, A motion by the Eev A, North, that churches receiving grants from the funds of the Union be required to confer with the committee in the event of a change either in the pastorate or the constitution of the church, was, after discussion, agreed to unanimouslv.

New Plymouth, Wednesday, [ Jonn G-. Sihnell (brother of lunatic murderer in Auckland lunatie asylum) was charged yesterday with threatening to murder Dommie Fisher, of Inglewood, The case, howover, was dismissed, i« . Ohrisichuech, Wednesday. On the Oxford-Sheffield line yesterday while about 100 men, recently taken on from the ranjes of unempleyed, pre loading loading ballkst near Waimakariri tho train, while being shunted, suddenly stopped, throwing several men off, One, whose name is-not ascertained, fell under the wheels, which passed over his head and neck, crushing the lowa.' jaw. and fracturing the vertebrae, death, being instantaneous. Another man named Edward Drinkerel fractured his left thigh and sustained other injuries,