Thos. Robinson, Vice-President, and Rev. Alfred Rudd, Secretary. The death-roll contained nineteen names, fifteen of whom were superannuates, and amongst the fifteen were two who were more than eighty years of age; eight others were added to the list of superannuates. A new mission had been opened on the Acquah

River on the west coast of Africa. A training school has been established at the Aliwal North Mission. The Zambesi Mission party, after five years' rambling, has settled among the people of Mashukulumbweland. The outlook is cheering. The increase in the membership is 612.

Rev. C. C. McKechnie, editor of the Quarterly Review, tendered his resignation of the position which he has held for more than forty years, but, instead of accepting his resignation, the Conference appointed an assistant.

The report of the Book Room was satisfactory. The sales amounted to $3,608,780, which brought in $160,038, an increase of $7,300; profits, $22,000. The Jubilee Fund has not reached $250,000, but it is hoped that the amount will be realized. The Church property is valued at $17,481,735, with debt of $5,000,000.

Mr. W. P. Hartley is a prince among his brethren. He gave to Conference $5,000 for college improvements. Mainly by his generosity the young men remain two years at college. He has also contributed a large sum to enable fifty ministers to attend the summer college of Professor Fairbairn at Oxford.

Two young men were appointed to New Zealand.

A committee was appointed to confer with a similar committee of the Bible Christian Conference, relative to a union of these branches of Methodism. Both these bodies, in certain important cases, allow their ministers to be stationed several years in succession on the same circuit.

The following incident deserves record, Mr. Kelk, local preacher, who for many years has been con

nected with the Prince of Wales' estate, has become enfeebled, and the Steward asked his Royal Highness to grant him a pension. The Prince ordered that he should have one of the best cottages on the estate, and $3 per week allowed him for life.

METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.

There are 202 educational institutions, with 43,000 students, and property and endowments valued at $26,583,000 and an annual income of $1,810,171, $70,000 of which comes from the Sunday-schools. The students represent twenty-four nationalities, and seventy-two per cent. are preparing for the ministry or missionary work.

William Deering, of Chicago, manufacturer of agricultural implements, has given $50,000 to found a professorship in the Medical School of the Methodist Northwestern University, of which institution he is one of the trustees.

September will be a busy month for the bishops, as they are appointed to hold forty Conferences. Bishop Ninde is in China, and Bishop Newman in Europe. Bishop Andrews is fraternal delegate to the British Conference.

METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH,

SOUTH.

Bishop Galloway delivered the Commencement oration at the Northwestern University, Evanston, and received the degree of LL.D. His eloquent address was greatly admired.

The Bishop has gone to Japan, China and Korea, on an episcopal tour, and will go round the world before he returns to America.

WALTER BAKER & CO., of Dorches ter, Mass., the largest manufacture s of pure. high grade, non-chemically treated Cocoas and Chocolates on this continent, have just carried off the highest honours at the Midwinter Fair in San Francisco. The printed rules governing the Judges at the Fair, state that "One hundred points entitles the exhibit to a special award, or Diploma of Honour." The scale, however, is placed so high, they, say "that it will be attained only in most exceptional cases." All of Walter Baker & Co's goo is received one hundred

points, entitling them to the special

award stated in the rules.