as Deputy Registrar of Cattle and Sheep Brands for
that portion of the Patea County which is within the
Provincial District of Wellington.
D. REID.

OFFICIATING MINISTERS FOR 1877.-NOTICE No. 18.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 14th September, 1877.

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 names of Officiating Ministers,
within the meaning of the said Act, are published for
general information: -

Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly
called the Church of England.
The Reverend GEORGE WILKS.

Baptists.
The Reverend ALEXANDER JOHN HAMILTON.
WM. R. E. BROWN,
Registrar-General.

Amberley to Bluff Railway.
CLINTON TO BALCLUTHA.

NOTICE is hereby given that plans showing gene-
rally the nature of the works to be performed
in the construction of a portion of the above section
of railway are deposited in the Schoolhouse, Wai-
repa; the Public Works Office, Clinton; and the
Town Clerk's Office, Balclutha; where they can be
seen at all reasonable hours for the period of forty
days from the 27th instant.

Dated this 19th day of September, 1877.
J. D. ORMOND,
Minister for Public Works.

Inquiry for a Missing Person.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 19th September, 1877.

INQUIRIES have been made respecting a person
named
JOHN HUMPHREY,

who is supposed to have arrived in New Zealand in
1862, having left Victoria during that year with
others for the New Zealand gold fields. Any
person possessing information respecting the above-
named is requested to communicate the same to this
office.
G. S. COOPER.

Money Order and Savings Bank Office opened.
General Post Office,
Wellington, 19th September, 1877.

IT is hereby notified for general information that a
Money Order and Savings Bank Office will be
opened at
WAIWERA (Chief Office Auckland),
from and after the 1st October next.
By order.
W. GRAY,
Secretary.

Notice.
General Post Office,
Wellington, 19th September, 1877.

THE public are informed that correspondence for
the United Kingdom may be forwarded by
steamers of the "Orient Line," at the ordinary rates
of postage for ship letters. Correspondence intended
for despatch by the above route should be distinctly
indorsed "per Orient Line."
By order of the Postmaster-General.
W. GRAY,
Secretary.

Designation of Post Office changed.
General Post Office,
Wellington, 20th September, 1877.

IT is hereby notified for general information that
the designation of the Post Office in the Provin-
cial District of Canterbury, at present known as
Kowai, will, from the 1st October proximo, be
changed to
LEITHFIELD.
By order of the Postmaster-General.
W. GRAY,
Secretary. 480

Sheep Inspector's Notice.
Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 8th September, 1877.

NOTICE has been received from the Inspector of
Sheep for the Wanganui District that he has
granted a clean certificate to
Mrs. J. Howie, No. 2 Line, for a Flock of 800
Sheep; dated 15th August, 1877.
And notice has also been received from the Inspector
of Sheep for the Wairarapa and East Coast District
that he has cancelled the clean certificate of
Messrs. Wall Brothers, "Huangarua," "Dry
Flock;" dated 15th August, 1877.
JOS. G. HOLDSWORTH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW ZEALAND.
DIVORCE AND MATRIMONIAL CAUSES JURISDICTION.

NOTICE is hereby given, that three or more of the
Judges of the Supreme Court of New Zealand
will sit at the Supreme Courthouse, Wellington, on
Monday, the nineteenth day of November next, at
eleven o'clock in the forenoon, to hear and determine
petitions for the dissolution or for a sentence of
nullity of marriage, under section sixty of "The
Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act, 1867," and
also for the despatch of all other business accruing
under the said Act.

Dated at Wellington, this thirteenth day of Sep-
tember, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
seven.
JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Chief Justice.

TO THE SHAREHOLDERS OF THE OTAGO DAILY
TIMES AND WITNESS COMPANY (LIMITED).

NOTICE is hereby given, that we hereby convene
an Extraordinary General Meeting of the
Shareholders of the above-mentioned Company, to be
held on the twenty-sixth day of September, 1877, in
the offices of the Otago Daily Times, at Dunedin, at
the hour of three o'clock in the afternoon, for the
purpose of confirming the following resolution,
passed at an Extraordinary General Meeting of the
above-mentioned Company, held in the said offices, on
the third day of August, 1877, so as to make the said
resolution a special resolution — viz., "That the
Otago Daily Times and Witness Company (Limited),
be wound up voluntarily, in terms of 'The Joint
Stock Companies Act, 1860.'"
ROBERT GILLIES,
W. D. MURISON,
DANIEL CAMPBELL,
W. J. M. LARNACH,
W. H. CUTTEN,
The
Directors of the
said Company.