religious bodies enumerated in Schedule D annexed to the "Marriage Act, 1854," viz:-

The United Church of England and Ireland.
The Church of Scotland.
The Roman Catholic Church.
The Free Church of Scotland.
All Presbyterian Congregations.
The Wesleyan Methodist Society.
All Congregational Independents.
Baptists.
The Primitive Methodist Society.
The Lutheran Church.
All Hebrew Congregations.
The Society of Friends.

Also the attention of Ministers of Religion not connected with any of these Bodies, who may desire to be placed on the list of "Officiating Ministers" within the meaning of this Act, is specially called to the following extracts from the Act aforesaid :-

Any Minister of Religion whose name shall have been sent in to the Registrar-General of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, or other Officer to be appointed by the Governor in that behalf, by the persons or person within the colony in whom Ecclesiastical authority shall for the time being be vested, or reputed to be vested, over any of the Religious Bodies enumerated in the Schedule D to this Act annexed, shall, Subject to the conditions hereinafter mentioned, be an Officiating Minister within the meaning of this Act, and the name of every such Minister of Religion shall be certified under the hand or hands of the person or persons aforesaid, and shall be entered and published as hereinafter provided.

PROVIDED ALWAYS, that any Minister of Religion not connected with any of the Bodies enumerated in the aforesaid Schedule to this Act annexed, who shall present to any Registrar a certificate signed by twenty-four householders resident in the District, for which such Registrar shall be appointed, declaring that such Minister is their Officiating Minister, shall be entitled to have his name inserted in the list of Officiating Ministers in the meaning of this Act. PROVIDED ALWAYS that such certificate shall be attested by two Justices of the Peace; and such attested certificate shall be sent into the Registrar-General or other Officer as aforesaid, in the month of December in every year, and no such attested certificate presented to any Registrar by any Minister as aforesaid, shall continue in force unless renewed in like manner.

The several Ecclesiastical Authorities as aforesaid of the respective Religious Bodies, shall send in to the said Registrar-General, or other Officer as aforesaid, a correct list of such Officiating Ministers in the month of December in every year.

It will therefore be necessary that the names of all Officiating Ministers, duly certified, be sent into me before the termination of the month of December next ensuing, in order that all such names may be entered in the list, a copy of which will be published in January 1855, in the New Zealand Government Gazette.

JOHN B. BENNETT,
Registrar-General.

Registrar General’s Office,
Auckland, October 31st, 1854.

Superintendent’s Office,
Dunedin, 5th December, 1854.

THE following Notifications from the New Zealand Government Gazette are republished for general information.

W. CARGILL,
Superintendent.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 11th July 1854.

HIS Excellency the Officer administering the Government directs it to be notified for general information, that in accordance with Colonial usage, the Members of the Executive Council, the Speaker of the Legislative Council, the Members of the Legislative Council, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, are entitled to be addressed officially as "The Honorable."

ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 7th November 1854.

HIS Excellency the Officer administering the Government has been pleased to direct that the names of the following gentlemen should be added to the Commission of the Peace for the Province of Otago.

JOHN CARGILL, Esq.
JOHN JONES, Esq.

By His Excellency’s command.

ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

AMOUNT of the Notes in circulation at the office of the Colonial Bank of Issue, at Wellington, on the 22nd July, 1854 :-

Amount of Notes in circulation on the 22nd day of July 1854, being the close of the preceding four weeks, viz.:-

£5 and upwards .............................. £13,780
Under £5 ...................................... 19,494

Total Amount ................................ £33,274

Total Amount of Coin held by the same office on the same day, viz.:-

Gold ......................................... £12,763
Silver ....................................... 511

Total Amount ................................ £13,274

I, Henry St. Hill, being the Manager of the said Bank, do hereby certify that the above is a true account of the Notes in circulation, and of the Coins held by the said office, as required under Ordinance No. 16, Session VIII.

P.P. HENRY ST. HILL,
Manager.

HENRY ST. HILL.
Colonial Bank of Issue.
Wellington, 22nd July, 1854.

The sum of Twenty Thousand Pounds sterling has been invested under the Warrant of His Excellency the Governor, in the public funds in England, through the Commissariat Department, by arrangements made through the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury.

AMOUNT of the Notes in circulation at the office of the Colonial Bank of Issue, at Wellington, on the 19th August, 1854 :-

Amount of Notes in circulation on the 19th day of August 1854, being the close of the preceding four weeks, viz.:-

£5 and upwards .............................. £13,810
Under £5 ...................................... 19,762

Total Amount ................................ £33,572

Total Amount of Coin held by the same office on the same day, viz.:-

Gold ......................................... £13,035
Silver ....................................... 537

Total Amount ................................ £13,572

I, Henry St. Hill, being the Manager of the said Bank, do hereby certify that the above is a true account of the Notes in circulation, and of the Coins held by the said office, as required under Ordinance No. 16, Session VIII.

P.P. HENRY ST. HILL,
Manager.

HENRY ST. HILL.
Colonial Bank of Issue.
Wellington, 19th August, 1854.