[From the New Zealand Gazette, Nov. 7, 1863.]

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 3rd Nov., 1863.

ENQUIRIES having been made respecting a person named ALGERNON MASSENBERG, a native of Kent, who emigrated to New South Wales ten years ago, and is now supposed to be in New Zealand, it is requested that any one who may have any knowledge of the person in question, will communicate with this office.

By command,
W. GISSON,
Under-Secretary.

[From the New Zealand Gazette, Nov. 18, 1863.]

Resignation by Hon. H. Sewell, of his office of Registrar-General of Land accepted.

Attorney-General’s Office,
Auckland, 9th November, 1863.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation by the

Honorable Henry Sewell

of the office of Registrar-General of Land.

FREDERICK WHITAKER.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 13th November, 1863.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

The Hon. T. B. Gillies

to be Secretary for Crown Lands.

This appointment bears date from the 5th instant.

WILLIAM FOX.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 13th November, 1863.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Henry Wiram Robinson, Esquire,

to be Returning Officer for the election of the Gold Field Representatives in the Province of Otago.

WILLIAM FOX.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, November 9th, 1863.

IT is hereby notified that all correspondence hitherto addressed to the Native Minister is in future to be addressed to

The Colonial Secretary,
(Native Department.)

WILLIAM FOX.

Notice as to Names of Officiating Ministers, being sent in to the Registrar-General.

"MARRIAGE ACT, 1854."

Officiating Ministers for 1864.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Auckland, November 10th, 1863.

THE attention of the person or persons within the Colony of New Zealand, in whom is vested ecclesiastical authority over any of the Religious Bodies, enumerated in Schedule D, annexed to an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled "The Marriage Act, 1854;" and of all other persons concerned, is requested to the following extracts from the Act aforesaid —

"42. 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 in to the Registrar-General or other officer as aforesaid, anew in the month of December in every year, and no such certificate presented to any Registrar by any Minister as aforesaid shall continue in force unless renewed in like manner."