1856
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 83]

Election of Trustees of Aorangi Drainage District, County of Oroua.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 15th November, 1898.

THE following result of the election of Trustees of the Aorangi Drainage District has been received from the Returning Officer, and is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Land Drainage Act, 1893.”

HUGH POLLEN,
Under-Secretary.

Aorangi Drainage District:
William Coombs.
Hon. Walter Woods Johnston.
John Motley Leigh.
Frederick J. Nathan.

Member of the House of Representatives elected, Tuapeka District.

Clerk of the Writs’ Office,
Wellington, 7th November, 1898.

THE Clerk of the Writs has received a return to the writ issued on the 19th day of October, 1898, for the election of a Member to serve in the House of Representatives for the Electoral District of Tuapeka, and by the indorsement on such writ it appears that

CHARLES CHAMPION RAWLINS

has been duly elected to serve as a Member for the said district.

HUGH POLLEN,
Clerk of the Writs.

Officiating Ministers for 1898.—Notice No. 33.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 15th November, 1898.

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 name of an Officiating Minister within the meaning of the said Act is published for general information:—

Roman Catholic Church.
The Reverend Robert Richards.

E. J. VON DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

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

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 17th November, 1898.

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 11th section of the above-mentioned Act, requiring the several ecclesiastical authorities as aforesaid to send in to the Registrar-General, in the month of December in every year, a correct list 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 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-bearers thereof.

A Minister of religion not connected with any of the aforesaid bodies must send to the Registrar-General in the month of December in each year a certificate signed—
(a.) By the recognised head in New Zealand of the religious body to which he ministers, or
(b.) By two duly-recognised Ministers of such religious body, or
(c.) 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 signatures being attested by some person who shall verify them as the genuine signatures of the persons whose they purport to be by a solemn declaration made under “The Justices of the Peace Act, 1862,” signed by such person and appended to the certificate.

Neglect in sending the certificate will deprive the Minister of his status as an Officiating Minister under the Marriage Act.

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.

E. J. VON DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

Fixing Sittings of the Supreme Court in the Northern 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 Northern Judicial District, for the year 1899:—

Sittings for the trial of criminal cases will be held at the Supreme Court House, AUCKLAND, to commence on the following days, at 11 a.m.:—
Monday, 6th March.
Monday, 29th May.
Monday, 28th August.
Monday, 20th November.

Sittings for the trial of civil actions will be held at the Supreme Court House, AUCKLAND, to commence on the following days, at 11 a.m.:—
Wednesday, 22nd February.
Monday, 12th June.
Monday, 24th July.
Monday, 11th September.
Monday, 4th December.

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, AUCKLAND, every Wednesday, except during vacation, the absence of the Judge, or when he is engaged on other business.

Sittings in Chambers will be held at the Judge’s Chambers, in the Courthouse, AUCKLAND, every Tuesday and Friday, except during vacation, the absence of the Judge, or when he 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, NEW PLYMOUTH, to commence on the following days, at 11 a.m.:—
Wednesday, 12th April.
Wednesday, 27th September.

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

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, GISBORNE, to commence on the following days, at half-past 10 a.m.:—
Thursday, 9th February.
Thursday, 10th August.

Business in Banco and 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 eleventh day of November, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight.

JAMES PRENDERGAST.
J. E. DENNISTON.
EDWD. T. CONOLLY.
W. B. EDWARDS.
F. W. PENNEFATHER,