The Rev. W. Baumber, Superintendent of the Durham Street Circuit, is a very popular preacher, and was born at Spilsby, Lincolnshire, England, After being received by the British Conference, he spent two years, at Didsbury College. In 1877, in response to an appeal from the Rev. J. Buller, he offered for the work in New Zealand. His first circuit in the colony was Lawrence, and he has since laboured in Canterbury, Hawke's Bay, and Wellington provincial districts. Mr. Baumber has served the Church as Chairman of the Otago and Wellington Districts, and in 1896 he presided over the first united Conference. His biography appears at pages 396–397 of the Wellington volume of this work.