THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 331
The Treasury Bills so contracted for will be
deliverable at the Colonial Treasury, Auck-
land, on the fifth day of January, 1863,
between the hours of 11 a.m. and 2 p.m., upon
payment of the amount tendered for; and all
Treasury Bills not paid for on the day speci-
fied, will be re-allotted or disposed of as the
Governor may direct.
READER G. WOOD.

POSTAL.

Members of the Executive Council to frank
and receive Letters Free.

General Post Office,
Auckland, 22nd November, 1862.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to authorise the following
officers of the Government of the Colony to
frank and receive official Letters and Packets
free:-
The Members of the Executive Council
of New Zealand.

READER WOOD,
For the Post-Master General.

POSTAL.
MONEY ORDER BRANCH.
Post Office, Riverton, to be a Money Order
Office.

General Post Office,
Auckland, Nov. 2, 1862.

NOTICE is hereby given, that His
Excellency the Governor has been pleased
to appoint the Post Office at

RIVERTON
to be a Money Order Office, for the issue and
payment of Money Orders.

READER WOOD,
For the Post-Master General.

Post Office at Riverton to be a Post Office of
the Second Class.

General Post Office,
Auckland, 22nd November, 1862.

IT is notified for general information that
the Post Office at

RIVERTON,
in the Province of Southland, has been con-
stituted a Post Office of the Second Class, for
the exchange of separate mails and other pur-
poses within the meaning of the 4th Clause of
the Posted Regulations of the 1st April, 1862.

READER WOOD,
For the Postmaster General.

Crown Lands Office,
Auckland, 22nd November, 1862.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint

JAMES CROWE RICHMOND, Esq.,
to be a Commissioner of Crown Lands, under
the Crown Lands Ordinances, Session x., No.
1, and Session xi., No. 10.

Also, to be a Commissioner under the New
Zealand Company's Land Claimants Ordinance,
Session XI., No. 15.

ALFRED DOMETT,
Secretary for Crown Lands.

Notice as to Names of Officiating Ministers
being sent in to Registrar General.

"MARRIAGE ACT, 1854."

OFFICIATING MINISTERS FOR 1863.

Registrar General's Office,
Auckland, 13th November, 1862.

THE attention of the person or persons with-
in 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 following extracts from the
Act aforesaid:-

"42. Any Minister of Religion, whose
name shall have been sent in to the Regis-
trar General of Births, Deaths, and Mar-
riages, or other Officer to be appointed by
the Governor in that behalf, by the per-
sons or person within the Colony in whom
ecclesiastical authority shall for the time
being be vested or reputed to be vested
over any of the Religious Bodies enume-
rated 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 afore-
said, and shall be entered and published as
hereinafter provided: Provided always,
that any Minister of Religion not connect-
ed with any of the Bodies enumerated in
the aforesaid Schedule to this Act annex-
ed, who shall present to any Registrar a
certificate signed by twenty-four house-
holders resident in the District for which
such Registrar shall be appointed, declar-
ing 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 Gene-
ral, or other officer as aforesaid, a correet