to nine feet at low water; and beacons for leading
through it have been re-erected on the south end of
Great Sandy Island-the inner beacon being white
with a pointed top, and the outer, red, with the
upper part V-shaped. The top of the inner beacon
will be seen through the arms of the outer beacon on
a W. N. bearing.

G. P. HEATH, Commander R.N.,
Portmaster.

Department of Ports and Harbours,
Brisbane, 11th September, 1871.

PURSUANT to the provisions of the thirty-third
section of "The Marine Act, 1867," His Excel-
lency the Governor directs it to be notified for public
information, that he approves of the construction of
a certain Harbour Work or Road proposed to be
made "across the Swamp upon the Main North
Road leading from Devonport to the Lake, Wade,
and other Northern Settlements within the Port of
Auckland, in the Province of Auckland," and detailed
plans and specifications of which Harbour Work or
Road have been laid before the Governor in accord-
ance with the provisions of the said Act.

Dated at Wellington this twenty-third day of
November, one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-one.
W. GISBORNE.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 22nd November, 1871.

THE following Notice, received from the General
Post Office, Melbourne, is published for general
information.

By order.
G. ELIOTT ELIOTT,
Secretary.

ADDITIONAL MONEY ORDER OFFICE.
General Post Office,
Melbourne, 25th October, 1871.

IT is hereby notified, that, on and after Wednesday,
the 1st November, 1871, Money Orders may be
obtained and made payable at
The Post Office at Sago Hill.

W. TURNER,
Deputy Postmaster-General.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 28th November, 1871.

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" (as amended
by "The Marriage Act Amendment Act, 1867"), and
of all other persons concerned, is requested to the
following extracts from the Act aforesaid :----

Sec. 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 Gover-
nor in that behalf, by the persons or person
within the Colony in whom ecclesiastical au-
thority 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 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."

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Sec. 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 Decem-
ber in every year."

The following are the Religious Bodies above
referred to:-
"The United Church of England and Ireland,"
"The Church of Scotland,"
"The Roman Catholic Church,"
"The Free Church of Scotland,"
"The Presbyterian Church of Otago and
Southland,"
"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."

With respect to Ministers of Religion not con-
nected with any of the aforesaid bodies, it is provided
by the forty-second section of "The Marriage Act,
1854," and the second section of "The Marriage Act
Amendment Act, 1868," as follows:-

Sec. 42, Marriage Act, 1854.—" Provided always
that any Minister of Religion not connected
with any of the bodies enumerated in the afore-
said Schedule to this Act annexed, who shall
present to any Registrar a certificate signed
by twenty-four householders resident in the
district 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 pre-
sented to any Registrar by any Minister as
aforesaid shall continue in force unless
renewed in like manner."

The provision printed in italics in the foregoing
extract has been amended as follows:-

Sec. 2, Marriage Act Amendment Act, 1868.—"So
much of the forty-second section of 'The
Marriage Act, 1854,' as provides that the
certificate in the said section referred to shall
be attested by two Justices of the Peace is
hereby repealed, and in lieu thereof it is
enacted that the signatures to any such cer-
tificate referred to in the said section of the
said Act shall be attested by some person who
shall verify the same by solemn declaration
before a Justice of the Peace, in the form set
forth in the Schedule hereto, and appended to
such certificate, and signed by such person;
and if any person shall make any such decla-
ration falsely, he shall be guilty of a misde-
meanour."

"SCHEDULE.
"I, A.B., do solemnly and sincerely declare that
all the signatures affixed to the above certifi-
cate are the genuine signatures of the persons
whose they purport to be.

Taken before me this
A.D. 18
day of
A.B.

C.D.,
A Justice of the Peace for the
Colony of New Zealand."