THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 281

CUSTOMS.

NOTICE is hereby given that a Brick
and Stone Building, situated in Vulcan
Lane near Shortland street, and in the occu-
pation of Messrs. J. S. Macfarlane and Co.,
has been duly licensed as a General Bonded
Warehouse, under the 11th clause of the
Customs Regulation Act, 1858.

WILLIAM YOUNG,
Deputy Commissioner of Customs.

Custom House, Auckland,
23rd October, 1861.

MARRIAGE ACT, 1854.

Officiating Ministers for 1862.

Registrar-General's Office,
Auckland, 25th October, 1861.

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, intituled
"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 with-
in the Colony in whom ecclesiastical autho-
rity 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 con-
ditions hereinafter mentioned, be an officia-
ting 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 Min-
ister of Religion not connected with any of
the Bodies enumerated in the aforesaid Sche-
dule to this Act annexed, who shall present
to any Registrar a certificate signed by
twenty-four householders resident in the Dis-
trict for which such Registrar shall be ap-
pointed, 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: Pro-
vided 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 cor-
rect 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,
All Presbyterian Congregations,
The Wesleyan Methodist Society,
All Congregational Independents,
Baptists,
The Primitive Methodist Society,
The Lutheran Church,
All Hebrew Congregations,
The Society of Friends.

I have therefore to request that, before the
termination of the month of December next
ensuing, the names of all Officiating Ministers
be sent in to me duly certified, in order that
such names may be entered in a list, a copy
of which will be published in the New Zea-
land Government Gazette, in the month of
January, 1862.

JOHN B. BENNETT,
Registrar-General.

SUPREME COURT.

NOTICE is hereby given that a Sitting of
the Supreme Court, for the despatch of
Criminal Business, will be holden at the Court
House, Queen-street, Auckland, on Monday,
the second day of December next, at eleven
o'clock in the forenoon; and that a Sitting
for the despatch of Civil Business will be
holden at the Court House aforesaid, on
Saturday, the seventh day of December next,
at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, at which
times and place, all persons under recognizance
to appear as prosecutors, defendants, or wit-
nesses, are required to give their attendance.

THOS. OUTHWAITE,
Registrar.

Supreme Court Office, Auckland,
26th October, 1861.

Bank of New Zealand.

THE SECOND INSTALMENT of £1, payable on
shares allotted in this Bank, has been fixed by
the Directors to be paid as follows:-

Auckland, on the 2nd November next.
Sydney, " 2nd November next.
Taranaki, " 2nd December next.
Wellington," " 2nd December next.
Nelson, " 2nd December next.
Canterbury," " 2nd December next.
Otago, " 2nd December next.

By order of the Board of Directors,

A. KENNEDY,
General Manager and Inspector.

Auckland, 7th October, 1861.