MAR. 10.]
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 315

Following this decision, the under-mentioned new "The Friendly Societies Act, 1877," on the 2nd day
postal district will therefore be established:-
of March, 1881.
GISBORNE.
The boundaries of the Gisborne Postal District
shall be the same as those of the County of Cook, as
defined in the first Schedule to "The Counties Act,
1876." The following Sub-Post Offices, which are
within the proposed new postal district, will hence-
forth be under the immediate control of the Chief
Postmaster, Gisborne :-

As the accounts of depositors in the Post Office
Savings Bank, which may have been or may be
opened prior to the 31st March next, cannot, after
that date, be operated upon at Gisborne until the
accounts are transferred, depositors resident within
the Postal District of Gisborne are requested, on or
before the 31st March, to forward their deposit-books
to the Chief Postmaster, Napier, with a notice that
they require their accounts transferred.

W. GRAY,
Secretary.

WM. R. E. BROWN,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

Branches of a Friendly Society registered.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 4th March, 1881.

THE following Subordinate Divisions were regis-
tered as branches of the Grand Division (No.
10) of the Sons and Daughters of Temperance,
under "The Friendly Societies Act, 1877," on the
2nd day of March, 1881 :-

Situated at
Star of Peace Division (No. 20)... Dillmantown.
Helpmate Division (No. 16) ... Ashburton.
Phoenix Division (No. 18) ... Oamaru.

WM. R. E. BROWN,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

Advertisement of Dissolution by Instrument under
"Friendly Societies Act, 1877."

Registrar of Friendly Societies' Office,
Wellington, 4th March, 1881.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Green Island
Lodge (No. 22), held at Green Island, a branch
of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of New
Zealand, is dissolved by instrument, registered at this
office the 22nd day of February, 1881, unless, within
three months from the date of the Gazette in which
this advertisement appears, proceedings be com-
menced by a member or other person interested in
or having any claim on the funds of the branch to
set aside such dissolution, and the same is set aside
accordingly.

WM. R. E. BROWN,
Registrar.

Civil Service Literary Prize, 1881.

Office of the Civil Service Examination Board,
Wellington, 8th March, 1881.

A PRIZE of the value of £10 will be given for the
best essay on
THE CONSTITUTIONAL INFLUENCE OF THE HOUSE
OF COMMONS IN ENGLAND ON QUESTIONS OF
PEACE AND WAR.

Conditions.

1. Competition to be open to all persons under the
   age of 25 years at this date who have passed either
   the Junior or Senior Civil Service Examination, and
   who are in the Service at the time of competition.
2. The prize to be in books or money, at the option
   of the prize-taker.
3. Essays to be legibly written, and on one side of
   the paper only.
4. Essays to be delivered to the Secretary of the
   Civil Service Examination Board, Wellington, by the
   31st December, 1881.
5. No competitor to allow his name to appear on
   his essay, but to adopt a motto or cypher, which is
   also to be written on a sealed envelope containing
   the author's name, and attached to the essay.
6. The prize will not be awarded unless there is an
   essay which, in the judgment of the examiners, is of
   sufficient merit to entitle the author to receive it.
7. Competitors are advised to keep copies of their
   essays, as those sent to the Board will not be re-
   turned.

G. S. COOPER,
Chairman.

Officiating Ministers for 1881.-Notice No. 6.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 5th March, 1881.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the
General Assembly of New Zealand, passed in
the forty-fourth year of the reign of Her Majesty
Queen Victoria, and intituled "The Marriage Act,
1880," the following names of Officiating Ministers
within the meaning of the said Act are published for
general information :-

Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.
The Reverend John McAra.

Roman Catholic Church.
The Reverend Theophylus Lemenant des Chesnais.

Wesleyan Methodist Society.
The Reverend Edward Barber.
" " James Thomas Pinfold.

WM. R. E. BROWN,
Registrar-General.

Friendly Society registered.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 4th March, 1881.

THE Grand Division (No. 10) of the Sons and
Daughters of Temperance, situated at South
Dunedin, was registered as a Friendly Society, under

Post Office, Sydenham, opened as a Government Life
Insurance Office.

Government Insurance Department,
Wellington, 7th March, 1881.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Post Office at
the under-mentioned place has been opened as
a Government Life Insurance Office:—

SYDENHAM (Canterbury).

D. M. LUCKIE,
Commissioner.