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THE FREE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND.
The Reverend Thomas Burns
William Will
William Bannerman
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CONGREGATIONAL INDEPENDENTS.
The Reverend Horatio Groube

BAPTISTS.
The Reverend Decimus Dolamore

THE LUTHERAN CHURCH.
The Reverend John William Christopher
Heine

I, JOHN B. BENNETT, Registrar-General of
Births, Deaths, and Marriages for New Zea-
land, do hereby certify that the foregoing
Names of OFFICIATING MINISTERS for 1857,
within the meaning of the "Marriage Act,
1854," have been sent in to me, in addition to
the Names in the List published in the New
Zealand Government Gazette of the 28th of
January in the present year.

Given under my hand, at Auckland, this
seventeenth day of February, 1857.

JOHN B. BENNETT,
Registrar General.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, February, 28th, 1857.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to direct that the following Des-
patch from Her Majesty's Principal Secre-
tary of State for the Colonies conferring the
title of "Honorable" on Members of the
Legislative Council and on the Speaker of the
House of Representatives should be published
for general information.

By his Excellency's command;
F. WHITAKER,
In the absence of the Colonial Secretary.

Downing-street,
30th October, 1856.

SIR, I have received and laid before the
Queen your Despatch, No. 87, of the 28th
May, requesting Her Majesty's approval of the
distinction of "Honorable" which, in a Ga-
zette Notice whereof you transmit a copy, you
had provisionally conferred upon the President
of the Legislative Council and on the Speaker
of the Legislative Assembly.

You also request that the same title may be
given to the Members of the Legislative
Council.

In reply I am commanded to inform you that
I have submitted both these applications to
Her Majesty, who has been graciously pleased
to assent thereto, and I am commanded accor-
dingly to signify to you Her Majesty's pleasure
that all the Members of the Legislative Council
and the Speaker of the House of Assembly,
should be entitled to the titular designation of"Honorable," and should be so described in
the several Acts and Instruments which may
be issued under your authority.

I have, &c.,
(Signed) H. LABOUCHERE:

Governor Sir W. Denison,
&c., &c., &c.
New South Wales:

Downing-street,
30th October, 1856.

SIR, I transmit for your information the
copy of a Despatch which has been addressed
to me by the Governor of New South Wales,
with a copy of my reply, upon the question of
conferring the title of "Honorable" on the
President and other Members of the Legisla-
tive Council; and on the Speaker of the Legis-
lative Assembly.

You will perceive that the Queen has been
pleased to allow all these persons to enjoy the
said distinction, and I am now commanded to
signify to you Her Majesty's pleasure that the
same privilege be extended to those who hold
corresponding positions in the Colony under
your Government.

I have, &c.,
H. LABOUCHERE.

Governor Gore Browne,
&c., &c., &c.
New Zealand.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, February 28th, 1857.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to direct the following Despatch
from Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of
State, acknowledging the receipt of an address
from the House of Representatives on the
occasion of the fall of Sebastopol, should be
published for general information.

By his Excellency's command,
F. WHITAKER,
In the absence of the Colonial Secretary.

Downing-street,
December 1, 1856.

SIR, I have received your Despatch, No.
80, of 11th August last, transmitting an Ad-
dress from the House of Representatives in
New Zealand to Her Majesty the Queen, on
the occasion of the fall of Sebastopol, with a
letter under the signature of Charles Clifford,
Speaker of the House.

2. An address expressive of the loyal and
   patriotic feelings of the Commons of New
   Zealand, the most distant dependency of the
   Crown yet peopled by a British race so
   thoroughly united in mind and heart to their
   kinsmen in the Mother Country, cannot but be
   highly acceptable to Her Majesty whom I
   have presented it, and by whom it has been
   very graciously received.

I have, &c.,
H. LABOUCHERE:

Governor Gore Browne,
&c., &c., &c.