THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
449

In the Wellington Militia.
The following are the Religious Bodies enumerated
Major John Valentine Smith to command the Militia in Schedule D., above referred to :-
and Volunteers in the Castle Point District.
Date of Commission, 23rd November, 1866.
Frederick Henry Revell to be Ensign. Date of
Commission, 1st December, 1866.
Ensign Frederick Henry Revell to be Deputy
Adjutant of Militia and Volunteers in the
Wairarapa and Castle Point Districts. Date of
Commission, 1st December, 1866.
J. C. RICHMOND,
(in the absence of the Defence Minister.)

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 1st December, 1866.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation of the Commission held
by the undermentioned officer, viz.:—
Captain Edward G. Stericker, No. 7 (Timaru)
Company Canterbury Rifle Volunteers.
J. C. RICHMOND,
(In the absence of the Defence Minister.)

Registrar-General's Office,
Auckland, 15th November, 1866.
THE attention of the persons or person 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 person or persons 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
enumerated in the "Schedule D" to this Act
annexed, shall, subject to the conditions here-
inafter 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
persons or person aforesaid, and shall be
entered and published as hereinafter provided:
Provided always that any Minister of Religion
not connected with any of the bodies enume-
rated in the aforesaid Schedule to this Act
annexed, 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, declaring that
such Minister is their Officiating Minister,
shall be entitled to have his name inserted in
the list of Officiating Ministers within 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 aforesaid shall
continue in force unless renewed in like
manner."

"44. The several ecclesiastical authorities as afore-
said 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 Decem-
ber 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 termi-
nation 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 Zealand Gazette, in the month of January,
1867.

JOHN B. BENNETT,
Registrar-General.

N.B. It is requested that the Christian Names
and the Addresses of the several Ministers may be
specified in the lists sent in to the Registrar-General.
J. B. B.

Office of Registrar of Joint Stock Companies,
Auckland, 13th November, 1866.
I, JOHN BOYLE BENNETT, Registrar of
Joint Stock Companies for the Provinces of
Auckland and Hawke's Bay, in the Colony of New
Zealand, do hereby notify that I have registered a
Memorandum of Association, with Articles of
Association annexed, establishing a Company (with
limited liability of the shareholders therein) entitled
"THE BAY OF PLENTY STEAM NAVIGATION
COMPANY (LIMITED) ;"
the object of which is the carrying on of Steam
Navigation between the City of Auckland and the
East Coast of New Zealand.

And that in pursuance of the provisions of "The
Joint Stock Companies Act, 1860," I have issued a
certificate of Incorporation of the said Company,
bearing date this thirteenth day of November, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.

JOHN B. BENNETT,
Registrar of Joint Stock Companies.

Compensation Court Office,
Wellington, 1st December, 1866.
NOTICE is hereby given that the sitting of the
Compensation Court, advertised to be holden
at Whanganui on the third day of December, 1866,
to investigate the claim to land over so much of the
Ngatiruanui Coast Block as lies between the
Kaupokonui and Whanganui Rivers, is postponed
until the twelfth day of the same month.

ROBERT H. EYTON,
Clerk of the Court.

Kooti whakawa mo nga whenua kua tangohia.

Poneke, Tihema 1, 1866.
TE PANUITANGA tenei kia mohiotia ai, ekore
e noho te Kooti Whakawa Whenua, ki
Whanganui a te mane te 3 o nga ra o Tihema, 1866,
hei whakawa i nga take whenua o nga tangata e pa
ana ki te wahi ia Ngatiruanui. E takoto ana ki
waenganui o nga awa o Kaupokonui o Whanganui.
Engari ka noho te Kooti ki Whanganui a te wenerei
te 12 o nga ra o Tihema, 1866.

NGA TE AITANA,
Kai tuhituhi.