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GROUP V., CLASS 41.-MINES AND METALLURGY.
Grand prix: New Zealand Government.
Gold medal: Brunner Company.
Silver medals: Caledonian Company, Endeavour Inlet
Company, Kapanga Company, Keep-it-Dark Company,
Phœnix Company, Welcome Company, Inspector Gordon.
Bronze medals: Champion Company, United Alpine Com-
pany, Waihi Company, Professor Black, Douslin's mortise-
lock.
Honourable mention: Fiery Cross Company, T. and S.
Morrin and Co., Saxon Company, William Tell Company.

GROUP V., CLASS 42.-FOREST INDUSTRIES.
Gold medal: New Zealand Government.
Silver medal: New Zealand Government.

GROUP V., CLASS 43.-BIRDS, FURS, ETC. (PRODUCTS OF
THE CHASE).
Diploma equivalent to grand prix: New Zealand Govern-
ment.
Honourable mention': Sir R. G. W. Herbert, H. E.
Liardet.

GROUP V., CLASS 44.-AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS NOT ALI-
MENTARY, WOOL, HEMP, ETC.
Grand prix: New Zealand Government.
Gold medals: R. Campbell and Sons, Douglas McLean,
Rowley and Hamilton.
Silver medals: Auckland Chamber of Commerce, W.
Hastie, Mathew Holmes, Joseph and Phillips, John Reid,
T. M. Williams.
Bronze medals: W. B. Allen, Frederick Crowe, C. Goulter,
Marmaduke Dixon.
Honourable mention: Redfern, Alexander, and Co.

GROUP VII., CLASS 67.-CEREALS, FARINACEOUS PRODUCTS.
Gold medals: Auckland Roller Mills, New Zealand
Farmers' Co-operative Association, Christchurch; New Zea-
land Government.
Silver medals: Fulton and Cresswell, Mathew Holmes,
J. and T. Meek.

GROUP VII., CLASSES 70, 71.-MEAT, FISH, VEGETABLES.
Gold medal: Gear Meat-preserving Company.
Silver medals: Foster and Gosling, Wellington Meat-pre-
serving Company.
Bronze medals: Colbeck and Co., Christchurch Nursery
and Seed Depôt, Robertson Brothers, Wanganui Meat-pre-
serving Company, New Zealand Packing and Canning Com-
pany, Auckland; Western Packing Company, Patea.
Honourable mention: Ewing and Co., Fernando and Co.
(Occidental Company), Wellington Fish-preserving and
Packing Company, S. Kirkpatrick and Co., Leask and Co.

GROUP VIII.- AGRICULTURE, VITICULTURE, PISCICULTURE.
Class 73 (ter). Methods of Agricultural Teaching.
Silver medal: Canterbury School of Agriculture.

Special Order made by Masterton Road Board, County of
Wairarapa North.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 22nd November, 1889.

THE following special order, made by the Masterton
Road Board, is published in accordance with "The
Road Boards Act, 1882."
W. R. RUSSELL.

SPECIAL ORDER made by the Masterton Road Board, at a
Meeting held on Saturday, 16th November, 1889.

THAT, for the purpose of securing payment of the sum of £50
granted to the Board under "The Local Bodies' Loans Act,
1886," for forming and metalling a branch road at Upper
Plain, Akura, in No. 2 Subdivision of the Masterton Road
District, a special rate of nine twenty-fourths of a penny in
the pound be made and levied on the following sections in
the Masterton Small-farm Block, viz.: Subsection 5, 1 acre;
Subsection D, 2 acres; Subsection 8, 2 acres; Subsection B,
2 acres; Subsection 6, 1 acre 3 roods 32 perches; Subsection
7, 1 acre 3 roods 32 perches; all being part of original Sec-
tion 51. Section 52, 43 acres. Subsection 2, 3 acres 3 roods
24 perches; Subsections 51E, 51F, 2, 3, and 4, 4 acres 3 roods;
Subsections 5 to 8, 1 acre; and Subsections 3 and 4, 2 acres;
all being part of original Section 50.
Such special rate shall be an annually-recurring rate, and
shall be paid in two half-yearly instalments for twenty-six
years, the first half-yearly payment to be made on the 1st
day of January, 1890, and the second on the 1st day of July,
1890, and on the same dates in each following year until
the debt is liquidated.
I hereby certify that the above special order has been duly
made, as required by section 75 of "The Road Boards Act,
1882."
R. WILSONE,
Road Board Office,
Clerk.
Masterton, 18th November, 1889.

Volunteer Officer transferred.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 16th November, 1889.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ap-
prove the transfer of Lieutenant James Ross
from F Battery, New Zealand Artillery Volunteers, to the
Unattached Active List, New Zealand Volunteers.
W. R. RUSSELL.

Member of the House of Representatives for Waipa elected.

Clerk of the Writs' Office,
Wellington, 25th November, 1889.
THE Clerk of the Writs has received a return to the
writ issued by him on the 2nd day of November, 1889,
for the election of a Member to serve in the House of Re-
presentatives for the electoral district hereinafter specified,
and by the indorsement on such writ it appears that the
under-mentioned gentleman has been duly elected Member
for such district, viz.:--

For the District of Waipa.
JOHN BRYCE.
G. S. COOPER,
Clerk of the Writs.

New Zealand Institute.

Colonial Museum,
Wellington, 21st November, 1889.
THE following gentlemen have been elected Members of
the New Zealand Institute by the incorporated so-
cieties, in compliance with clause 7 of "The New Zealand
Institute Act, 1867:"-
JAMES MOKERROW, Esq., F.R.A.S.
ALFRED DE BATHE BRANDON, Esq., B.A.
S. PERCY SMITH, Esq., F.R.G.S.
JAMES HECTOR,
Manager.

Notice to Persons in whom is vested Ecclesiastical Authority
over Religious Bodies.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 23rd November, 1889.
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 the
Schedule B annexed to an Act of the General Assembly of
New Zealand intituled "The Marriage Act, 1880," and of
all other persons concerned, is directed to the eleventh
section of the above-mentioned Act, requiring the several
ecclesiastical authorities as aforesaid to send in to the
Registrar-General a correct list, in the month of December
in every year, of the Officiating Ministers within the meaning
of "The Marriage Act, 1880," of each of the said religious
bodies.

The following are the religious bodies above referred to :-
The Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly
called the Church of England.
The Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.
The Roman Catholic Church.
The Presbyterian Church of Otago and Southland.
The Wesleyan Methodist Society.
All Congregational Independents.
Baptists.
The Primitive Methodist Connexion.
The United Methodist Free Churches.
The Lutheran Church.
All Hebrew Congregations.
The Society of Friends.

In default of any person having ecclesiastical authority
over any of the religious bodies named above, the name of
the Officiating Minister of any congregation of such religious
body may be certified to by two recognised office-holders
thereof.

With respect to Ministers of Religion not connected with
any of the aforesaid bodies, it is necessary that a certificate,
signed by twenty-four householders resident in the district,
declaring that such Minister is their Officiating Minister,
the said certificate being attested by some person, verified by
a declaration before a Justice of the Peace, shall be sent to
the Registrar-General in the month of December in each
year. The neglect in sending such last-named certificate
will deprive the Minister of his status as an Officiating
Minister under the Marriage Act.
WM. R. E. BROWN,
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.