The Primate took the ohair at 4 p.m. The Rev. W. C. Harris brought up the report of the select committee appointed to consider and report upon the advisabuity of amalgamating some of the Synodical com mittees, which was read. Mr Hamilton moved—"That the motion standing in his name for adoption of Bfcanding j orders for regulation of order and notice I papers be referred to a select committee. '£__ such committee do consist of:—The Rev. E. A. Ltegard, Mr H. J. Tancred, Mr H. R. Webb, the Hon. J.B. A. Acland, Mr G. L. Lee and the mover. To report on or before Tuesday, 26th instant." The motion was agreed to. , The instructions are as foUows— In draw ing up the daUy order and notice paper, the secretaries shaU observe the foUowing rule :— Every notice of motion given for first, second, and third reading, committal, or re-com mittal of any draft statute or draft regulation, shall, unless otherwise ordered by the Synod at any previous sitting, be placed on the order paper before aU other notices of b-uneM. And, according to the order of time in which it shall have been given, every such notice shaU stand on the order paper Wore any other notice for the consideration of any dratt statute or draft regulation. That the above rule be adopted as a Standing Order of Synod, and be numbered ." _ , The Yen. Archdeacon Harper moved— "That the Church Property Trustees be re commended to give tbe usual grant of £ZoO towards the building of a V*™**** % Hfc 1 Andrew's, in the Otaio, Blneeliffs district

After considerable discusaion the motion was withdrawn.
