THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 146

Minister Native Affairs' Office,
Auckland, 3rd November, 1858.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint
WILLIAM JOHN WARBURTON HAMILTON,
Esq.,
CHARLES CHISTOPHER BOWEN, Esq.,
THOMAS CASS, Esq.,
JOHN HALL, Esq.,
to be Commissioners of Native Reserves, in
the Province of Canterbury, under the "New
Zealand Native Reserves Act, 1856."
C. W. RICHMOND.

General Post Office,
Auckland, 3rd November, 1858.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint
Mr. F. E. WRIGHT
to be Postmaster at Lyttelton.
H. J. TANCRED.

General Post Office,
Auckland, 3rd November, 1858.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint
Mr. JAS. G. WOON
to be Clerk in the Post Office, Wanganui,
vice Mr. W. Woon, deceased.
H. J. TANCRED.

Registrar-General's Office,
Auckland, November 1st, 1858.
PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act
of the General Assembly of New Zealand,
entitled "The Marriage Act, 1854," the fol-
lowing Name of an OFFICIATING MINISTER
within the meaning of the said Act, is pub-
lished for general information :-

FREE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND.
The Reverend John McNicol, (Otago.)

I, John B. Bennett, Registrar-General of
Births, Deaths, and Marriages in New Zealand,
do hereby certify that the foregoing Name of
an OFFICIATING MINISTER within the meaning
of "The Marriage Act, 1854," has been sent
in, to me, in addition to the Names in Lists
published respectively in the "New Zealand
Government Gazette" Number 2, of the 26th
of January; Number 4, of the 11th of Feb-
ruary; Number 8, of the 19th March; Number
12, of the 13th April; Number 15, of the 15th
of May; No. 19. of the 30th of June; and
No. 23, of the 20th of August, in the present
year.

Given under my hand, at Auckland,
this first day of November,
1858.
JOHN B. BENNETT,
Registrar-General,

"MARRIAGE ACT, 1854."
OFFICIATING MINISTERS FOR 1859.

Registrar-General's Office,
Auckland, 1st November, 1858.
THE attention of the person or persons
within the Colony of New Zealand, in
whom is vested ecclesiastical authority over any
of the Religious Bodies, enumerated in
"Schedule D," annexed to an Act of the
General Assembly of New Zealand, entitled
"The Marriage Act, 1854," and of all other
persons concerned, is requested to the follow-
ing extracts from the Act aforesaid :-

"42. Any Minister of Religion, whose name
shall have been sent in to the Registrar-
General of Births, Deaths, and Marriages,
or other Officer to be appointed by the
Governor in that behalf, by the persons or
person within the Colony, in whom eccle-
siastical authority shall for the time being
be vested, or reputed to be vested, over
any of the Religious Bodies enumiera-
ted 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: Pro-
vided always, that any Minister of
Religion not connected with any of the
Bodies enumerated in the aforesaid
Schedule to this Act annexed, who shall
present to any Registrar a certificate
signed by twenty-four householders, resi-
dent 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 inserted 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 in 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.

"44. 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."

The following are the Religious Bodies
enumerated in Schedule D above referred to:-
The United Church of England and Ireland
The Church of Scotland
The Roman Catholic Church
The Free Church of Scotland