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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Medical Referee appointed.

Government Annuities Office,
Wellington, 21st November, 1872.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint the under-mentioned gentleman to be a
Medical Referee, under "The Government Annuities
Act, 1869:"

WILLIAM BROWN, Esq., Waikouaiti.
W. GISBORNE,
Commissioner.

F. de C. Malet, Esq., appointed Acting Registrar
of N.Z. University.

University of New Zealand,
Christchurch, 16th November, 1872.

IT is hereby notified, that Randolph Mainwaring,
Esq., having resigned the office of Acting
Registrar of this University, the following gentleman
has been appointed Acting Registrar of the Uni-
versity of New Zealand, viz. :-

FREDERICK DE CARTERET MALET, Esq.
This appointment to take effect from 4th November,
1872, instant.

HENRY JOHN TANCRED,
Chancellor.

Friendly Society registered.

IN the matter of "The Friendly Societies Act,
1867:" Notice is hereby given, that a transcript
of the Rules of

"The Right Worthy Grand Lodge of the Inde-
pendent Order of Odd Fellows of New Zea-
land," at Dunedin,

duly certified, has been lodged with the Registrar
of Friendly Societies, registered and recorded in his
office, under the provisions of "The Friendly Societies
Act, 1867."

Dated the 26th day of November, 1872.
G. S. COOPER
(for the Registrar).

Officiating Minister.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 25th November, 1872.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the
General Assembly of New Zealand, passed in
the eighteenth year of the reign of Her Majesty
Queen Victoria, and intituled "The Marriage Act,
1854," the following name of an Officiating Minister,
within the meaning of the said Act is published for
general information:--

Free Church of Scotland.

The Reverend ANDREW MACDONALD TAIT.

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 in the New Zealand
Gazette, No. 6, of the 31st of January; No. 9, of the
19th of February; No. 13, of the 14th of March;
No. 14, of the 23rd of March; No. 16, of the 4th of
April; No. 19, of the 24th of April; No. 24, of
the 17th of May; No. 31, of the 22nd of June; No.
32, of the 1st of July; No. 33, of the 10th of July;
No. 34, of the 15th of July; No. 41, of the 22nd of
August; No. 43, of the 4th of September; No. 51,
of the 10th of October; No. 58, of the 1st of

November; and No. 62, of the 21st of November,
in the present year.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this
twenty-fifth day of November, one thou-
sand eight hundred and seventy-two.

JOHN B. BENNETT,
Registrar-General.

Notice relating to Officiating Ministers under the
Marriage Acts.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 23rd November, 1872.

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 Governor
in that behalf, by the persons 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
enumerated in the 'Schedule D' to this Act
annexed, shall, subject to the conditions herein-
after 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."

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