AUCKLAND NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 359, 8 March 1902, Page 2

AUCKLAND NEWS.

METHODIST UNION. (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, lasi night. The vote on the question of Methodist Union.has now been taken by the Primitive Methodists. At the quarterly official meeting throughout tiie colony they are. asked to vote whether (a) they are in favor of a union on the 1880 basis, or of a union on the basis now offered to them by the Conference of the Australian Methodist Church. It will be some days before the complete returns will have come to hand, but so far as Auckland is concerned the official meetings of the Auckland first and second stations were composed of 3') official persons, and the voting was as follows : in favor of the 1885 basis, 10 votes ; in favor of the present proposed basis, 2 votes. Against the J 885 basis, 29 votes ; against the present proposed basis, 31 votes. A BRAVE MAN. To-day Mrs Caulton, wife < f Lieutenant S. C. Caulton, seriously wounded in the Seventh Contingent’s recent fight, received the following cable message front her husband through the Premier “ Hospital, Harrismith. — I ant doing splendidly considering nature of wounds ; think nothing of wounds considering splendid results from engagement.