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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 92

“The Supreme Court Act, 1882,” hereby make the following rules respecting the places and times for holding sittings of the Supreme Court and sittings in Chambers, in the Judicial District of Canterbury, for the year 1893 :—

Sittings for the trial of criminal cases will be held at the Supreme Courthouse, CHRISTCHURCH, to commence on the following days, at 11 a.m. :—

Monday, 20th February.
Monday, 29th May.
Monday, 14th August.
Monday, 20th November.

Sittings for the trial of civil actions will be held at the Supreme Courthouse, CHRISTCHURCH, to commence on the following days, at 11 a.m. :—

Monday, 27th February.
Monday, 10th April.
Monday, 5th June.
Monday, 21st August.
Monday, 2nd October.
Monday, 27th November.

The trial of causes under “The Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act, 1867,” may take place at any of the above-mentioned sittings for the trial of civil actions.

Sittings of the Court in Banco will be held at the Courthouse, CHRISTCHURCH, every Wednesday, except during vacation, or during the absence of the Judge, or unless the Judge is engaged on other business.

Sittings in Chambers will be held at the Judge’s Chambers, in the Courthouse, CHRISTCHURCH, every Tuesday and Friday, except during vacation, or during the absence of the Judge, or when the Judge is engaged on other business.

Sittings in Chambers at other times and in vacation, in respect of urgent business, may be held at such times and places as may suit the convenience of the Judge.

Sittings for the trial of criminal and civil cases, and of causes under “The Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act, 1867,” will be held at the Courthouse, TIMARU, to commence on the following days, at 11 a.m. :—

Tuesday, 7th February.
Tuesday, 13th June.
Tuesday, 19th September.

Business in Chambers may be disposed of in the course of these sittings, on such days and at such hours as the Judge may appoint.

If any of the days above appointed for sittings should be a public holiday, the sittings will commence on the first day after the day so appointed which is not a holiday.

Given under our hands, at Wellington, this eighteenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two.

JAMES PRENDERGAST.
C. W. RICHMOND.
JOSHUA S. WILLIAMS.
J. E. DENNISTON.
EDWD. T. CONOLLY.

Fixing Sittings of the Supreme Court in the Otago and Southland Judicial District.

WE, the Judges of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, in pursuance of the powers vested in us by “The Supreme Court Act, 1882,” hereby make the following rules respecting the places and times for holding sittings of the Supreme Court and sittings in Chambers, in the Judicial District of Otago and Southland, for the year 1893 :—

Sittings for the trial of criminal cases will be held at the Supreme Courthouse, DUNEDIN, to commence on the following days, at 10 a.m. :—

Monday, 6th March.
Monday, 5th June.
Monday, 28th August.
Monday, 4th December.

Sittings for the trial of civil actions will be held at the Supreme Courthouse, DUNEDIN, to commence on the following days, at 10 a.m. :—

Monday, 27th February.
Monday, 20th March.
Monday, 26th June.
Monday, 7th August.
Monday, 11th September.
Monday, 20th November.

The trial of causes under “The Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act, 1867,” may take place at any of the above-mentioned sittings for the trial of civil actions.

Sittings of the Court in Banco will be held at the Courthouse, DUNEDIN, every Wednesday, except during vacation, or in the absence of the Judge, or unless the Judge is engaged on other business.

Sittings in Chambers will be held at the Judge’s Chambers, in the Courthouse, DUNEDIN, every Tuesday and Friday, except during vacation, or in the absence of the Judge, or unless the Judge is engaged on other business.

Sittings in Chambers at other times and during vacation, in respect of urgent business, may be held at such times and places as may suit the convenience of the Judge.

Sittings for the trial of criminal and civil cases, and of causes under “The Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act, 1867,” will be held at the Courthouse, INVERCARGILL, to commence on the following days, at 10 a.m. :—

Tuesday, 14th February.
Tuesday, 13th June.
Tuesday, 26th September.

Sittings for the trial of criminal and civil cases, and of causes under “The Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act, 1867,” will be held at the Courthouse, OAMARU, to commence on the following days, at 10 a.m. :—

Tuesday, 14th March.
Tuesday, 5th September.

Business in Chambers may be disposed of in the course of these sittings, at such days and hours as the Judge may appoint.

If any of the days above appointed for sittings should be a public holiday, the sittings will commence on the first day after the day so appointed which is not a holiday.

Given under our hands, at Wellington, this eighteenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two.

JAMES PRENDERGAST.
C. W. RICHMOND.
JOSHUA S. WILLIAMS.
J. E. DENNISTON.
EDWD. T. CONOLLY.

Commissioner of the Supreme Court appointed.

NOTICE.—THOMAS COLIN SHARP the Younger, of 10 and 12, Queen Street, Melbourne, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria, has been appointed this day, by His Honour the Chief Justice, a Commissioner of the Supreme Court of New Zealand in the Colony of Victoria, under the 2nd section of “The Commissioners of the Supreme Court Act, 1875,” for the purpose of administering and taking all such oaths, affidavits, and affirmations as in the said section mentioned.

Dated at Wellington, this 12th day of November, 1892.

D. G. A. COOPER,
Registrar.

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

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 23rd November, 1892.

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 Connection.
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 shall be sent to the Registrar-General in the month of December in each year. The certificate is to be signed by the recognised head in New Zealand of the religious body to which he ministers, or by two duly-recognised ministers of such religious body, or by ten adult members thereof, who shall append to their signatures their description as being such members, declaring that such Minister is their Officiating Minister, the said certificate being attested by some person who shall verify the signatures to the certificate as the genuine signatures of the persons whose they purport to