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MINUTES

OF

THE METHODIST CONFERENCES.

No. CXXX.

NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, July 30, 1873.

GEORGE T. PERKS, M.A., President.
GERVASE SMITH, M.A., Secretary.

QUESTION I. WHо are now ADMITTED as Ministers INTO FULL CONNEXION WITH THE CONFERENCE?

ANSWER 1. In Great Britain,

(1.) James C. Fowler, who has travelled six years;

(2.) Samuel Adcock, Robert E. Bambrough, James Bolton, John Reeves Brown, Joseph Cade, Joseph Henry Cadman, William R. Carlyon, Henry W. Catton, James Clegg, Thomas Cross, John Francis Davies, Thomas Dodd, William Greenwood, William James Heaton, William Jefferies, John Jones (G), John Powell Lowe, Thomas Hardwick Mawson, John Mead, William Middleton, James Monahan, Richard Waddy Moss, Thomas Orton, John T. Patey, Allen Rees, Moses Roberts, Edward S. Shelton, Henry Smith, Thomas P. Spencer, William W. Spencer, William A. Templar, Henry Epworth Thompson, Michael Thompson, John Turner ;

2. In our Foreign Missions,

John Crawshaw (B), Edward D. Dannatt, John C. W. Gostick, John T. F. Halligey, William Parker, Henry James Quilter, Alfred J. Silcox;

Also, John H. Bridgewater, W. Shaw Kama, Samuel T. King, Henry Blackey Warner, Assistant-Missionaries;

With, Hendrich Fernando, William Murugasu Walton, Native Ministers;

3. In Ireland, William Crawford, M.A., Richard Duke, John Hadden, Samuel Hutchinson, Robert Samuel Lee ;

Q. II. What Preachers REMAIN ON TRIAL?

A. 1. In Great Britain,

(1.) John D. Clark, who has travelled four years;

(2.) Charles E. Beecroft, Richard Wallace Boyns, George

Chapman Coad, James Critchison, Joseph Crowther, George Edward Cutting, Robert Dyson (B), William P. Ellis, Thomas Evans, John B. Every, William Francis Faulding, George G. Findlay, B.A., John Henry Goodman, Samuel Gregory, Adam Hann, George Ingman, Edward Lloyd Jones, James Bourne Jones, Edward Blanshard Keeling, William Cassell Kewish, Charles Lester, Robert Lewis (B), Frederick M. Lowry, William Mellor, Humphrey Morrison, John Thomas Pallister, Isaiah Parker, Thomas Rae, Thomas Rippon, Peter Roberts, Joseph Robinson, Samuel Owen Scott, Elijah Sholl, Samuel Shrimpton, George Southall, Rutland Spooner, Starkie Starkie, John G. Stuart, John Thackray, B.A., John Thompson, Charles H. H. Ward, George Watson, Joseph Watson (B), George Woodcock;[John W. Woodliffe, who has travelled four years, retires, by permission of the Conference, for one year ;-)

2. In our Foreign Missions,

(1.) Joseph S. Kelshall, Assistant-Missionary, Clement Johns, M. Kalyana Raman, and Henry Marthensz, Native Ministers, who have travelled four years;

(2.) Mortimer Allen, Charles Angwin, Enoch Biscombe, Josephus Bishop, Henry Maxwell Cameron, Edward R. Gibbens, Thomas Hosking, William Jackson (D), Ezekiel Lones, John Milum, Jeremiah Sansom, Gardener Scates, Archibald Taylor, William Wynne ;

Also, Samuel Thomas Brown, George Arthur Rose, John R. F. Tull, Jonathan Webb, Assistant-Missionaries;

With, Karl Christoph Beutenmüller, Assistant German Minister, David Fonseka, Daniel Poor Niles, James Marrimuttoo Osborn, Philip R. Willenberg, Assistant Native Ministers;

3. In Ireland, Richard Cole, Samuel Hollingsworth, B.A., John Magill, Walter Henry Price, Samuel Alexander Robertson, Nicholas John Warner :

These have travelled THREE YEARS:

A. 1. In Great Britain,

Philip G. Adair, Robert Amys, George H. Appleby, Philip Bainbridge, Thomas Barr, William Beadon, William Henry Booth, W. Milburn Briggs, Joseph Willis Britton, William Brooks, Henry Thackray Brumwell, Henry Burgoine, John Webber Burn, Edgar T. Carrier, James Chapman, John Robinson Cleminson, Alfred Cooke, Nicholas Cooke, James Cooling, William Cornforth, Henry Cotton, John Davies, Thomas Dixon, James Etchells, Joseph Samuel Exell, Henry J. Foster, William John Fowell, Ralph Green, Charles E. Griffin, Griffith Griffiths, John Griffiths, Charles Haller, Crawshaw Hargreaves, Charles Harrison, John Craske Harvard, John Henry Henderson, Samuel Hickmans, John Hogg, John Henry Hooper, Joseph H. Hop

kins, John Hornabrook, Tom Henry Ingram, Thomas B. Jefferies, John Hugh Jones, John Watkiss Jones, William Thomas Jones, John Wesley Keyworth, Thomas Law, Charles E. Lefeaux, Walter Lethaby, James Lewis, James H. Marquand, Sidney Mees, Samuel Miles, Robert Nicholson, Ezra Nuttall, Charles Onions, Joseph Owen, George Parker (B), Samuel Hickling Parkes, Thomas Rathmell, Allen Redshaw, Gregory Renton, Charles F. Richardson, Thomas Alexander Seed, Henry T. Smart, Edward Smith, George Smith (E), Theophilus Lupton Taylor, Frederick H. Thomas, Peter Thompson ;

[John R. Griffin and Alfred Johnson retire, for the present, for want of health;

2. In our Foreign Missions,

Alfred L. Barley, Richard S. Boulter, John W. Brewer, Samuel B. Cawood, Arthur P. Chaplin, Richard W. Cusworth, William Shaw Davis, Frederick Elton, Charles H. Hocken, John Jeffery, William Jones (B), Thomas F. Nicholson, John G. Pearson, Alfred P. Riddett, Charles Rose, George M. Slade, John C. Sowerbutts, George Weavind, Alfred S. Williams, Edward J. Winter;

Also, Albert H. Aguilar, William C. Goch, David Jefferson Reynolds, Assistant-Missionaries;

With, Christian Reiz, Gottlieb S. P. Schweikher, Assistant German Ministers; Gabrielle Martinelli, Giuseppe Rosa, Giovanni Battista de Sanctis, Assistant Italian Ministers; Charles Lewana, John Andries de Mell, Christian Parinparayagam, James Sakuba, John Sikwebu, James Umjila, Samuel Umtimkulu, Assistant Native Ministers;

3. In Ireland, Robert John Ballard, Thomas Forde, Robert Jamison, George Dickson Lindsay, Thomas Ballans Nicholson, B.A., Robert George Roberts;

These have travelled Two YEARS:

A. 1. In Great Britain,

Henry B. Clough, Robert Curry, Richard G. Dawson, William G. Dawson, Richard F. Earnshaw, William Evans (B), Daniel Eyre, Joshua M. Fairbourn, Job Grice, Benjamin E. Hawkins, James S. Haworth, D. Arundel Hay, Frederick Hilton, Thomas Hitchon, Frederick Hughes, Owen Hughes, David Jones (c), Richard Lloyd Jones, John Laverack, William A. Leach, Robert W. Little, Caleb Lord, Henry H. M'Cullagh, Joel Mallinson, Joseph B. Maltby, William Muncaster, Frederick Henry Naylor, George Outhwaite, John M. Owen, William Reynolds, Charles W. Rhodes, Marmaduke Riggall, Philip Sadler, Thomas Sanderson, Henry Scanes, John Jeremy Smith, Ernest S. Thies, Charles Thomas, John Thompson (B), William H. Weatherill, Thomas H. Whitamore, William G. White, Josiah E. Whydale ;—