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whom Ecclesiastical authority shall for the time being be vested, or reputed to be vested, over any of the Religious Bodies enumerated in the Schedule D to this Act annexed, shall, subject to the conditions hereinafter mentioned, be an Officiating Minister within the meaning of this Act, and the name of every such Minister of Religion shall be certified under the hand or hands of the person or persons aforesaid, and shall be entered and published as hereinafter provided. Provided always, that any Minister of Religion not connected with any of the Bodies enumerated in the aforesaid schedule to this Act annexed, shall present to any Registrar a certificate signed by twenty-four householders resident in the district for which such Registrar shall be appointed, declaring that such Minister is their Officiating Minister, shall be entitled to have his name in the list of Officiating Ministers in the meaning of this Act. Provided always that such certificate shall be attested by two Justices of the Peace; and such attested certificate shall be sent to the Registrar-General or other Officer as aforesaid anew in the month of December in every year, and no such attested certificate presented to any Registrar by any Minister as aforesaid shall continue in force unless renewed in like manner.

"The several Ecclesiastical Authorities as aforesaid of the respective Religious Bodies shall send in to the said Registrar-General, or other Officer as aforesaid, a correct list of such Officiating Ministers in the month of December in every year."

It will therefore be necessary that the names of all Officiating Ministers, duly certified, be sent in to me before the termination of the month of December next ensuing, in order that all such names may be entered in the list, a copy of which will be published in January, 1855, in the New Zealand Government Gazette.

JOHN B. BENNETT.
Registrar-General.
Registrar-General's Office,
Auckland, October 31st, 1854.

Superintendent's Office, Nelson,
November 27, 1854.
HIS Honor the Superintendent directs the publication, for general information, of the following Reports and Sailing Directions, relative to the Waimea River, French Pass, and Pelorus, as furnished by Captain Drury, of H.M.S. Pandora.
By His Honor's command,
ALFRED GREENFIELD,
Clerk in Superintendent's Office.

WAIMEA RIVER.
H.M. Surveying Vessel Pandora,
Waimea River, Wednesday, Nov. 1, 1854.
Sir—Having made a survey of the entrance of Waimea River, chiefly for the purpose of determining how far it could be made a port of refuge for vessels that have reached Bolton Roads, but are unable to enter Nelson Harbour, I have the honour to forward you my recommendation regarding the buoying of the entrance, and in forming this opinion I have consulted Mr. Cross, the efficient pilot of Nelson, and he fully agrees with me as to the position and kind of buoys required.

I should advise the can buoys, with the gear, being ordered from England, for they be imported cheaper and better than they could be procured in the colonies under existing circumstances.

The smaller buoys leading up the river might be fitted here, and need not be larger than hogsheads.

I will leave a tracing of the river, and the position for the buoys, which Mr. Cross can refer to in laying them down.

Buoys required—2 can buoys, six feet long by five in the head, with the following moorings:—for one, 30 fathoms of chain and 10 fathoms bridle; and for the second, 20 fathoms of chain, and 6 fathoms for bridle. A smaller can buoy, five feet long, four feet in the head, with 10 fathoms of chain, and 4 feet bridle. And three small cask buoys, to be made in the colony.

The price of the largest can buoys, as made in Auckland, cost £15, made of wood; but galvanized iron would be preferable, and probably as cheap.

In similar cases at Auckland, I have recommended a direct application to the Trinity House.
I am, sir,
Your obedient servant,
BYRON DRURY,
Commander and Surveyor.
To his Honor the Superintendent
of the Province of Nelson.

FRENCH PASS.
H.M. Surveying Vessel Pandora,
Nelson, Nov. 21st, 1854.
Sir—Having returned off Nelson from a survey of Current Basin and the French Pass, I have the honor to send you, for the interest of navigation, a report on the latter, having made a strict survey of it; and I have the pleasure of leaving with you tracings both of it and the Waimea, as I think it is necessary they should be made available as soon as possible, only requesting that no farther copies will be made but what you consider necessary to persons actually interested, as sometimes spurious lithographs have been made under the title of Admiralty charts.

I first report the existence of a danger on entering Current Basin. The Pandora purposely took the passage north of the Chicots, as I found it had not been sounded, and we passed within a ship's length of an isolated rock, which has since been surveyed.

The Rock bears N. 74° W., 56 cables from Sauvage Point (D'Urville Island), and N. 73° E., 7 cables from the large Chicot, and is just without the line from the h. w. extreme of Lebrun Peninsula to Sauvage Point; it is about 50 feet in extent, only visible at low water, and steep to, there being 11 fathoms between it and D'Urville Island, and 12 fathoms between it and the Chicot Rocks.

N.B. For the above names, vide D'Urville's chart of Current Basin.

The tracing of the Pass will best give an idea of it. Between D'Urville Island and Middle Island, at the narrowest part, there is a distance of 540 yards at high water; but from D'Urville Island, rocks extend across this distance, S. by E.,