To the Editor of the Colonist.

Colonist, Volume IV, Issue 330, 18 December 1860, Page 2

To the Editor of the Colonist.

Sir —Will you be kind enough, through the medium of your columns, to ask your readers if it be true that the late Judge of the District Court, now one of the firm of ' T ravers and Kingdon' pt this town, solicitors, is a candidate aspiring to be elected as a member of the House of Representatives for an Electoral District, for which he was lately appointed and still is the Revising; Officer ? AN ENQUIRER.

Education amongst the Natives. —We learn that the natives residing at the pah Whakaairo hiflfc in their strong desire for information, resolred to have a teacher of English amongst them, and that they have secured the services of one who has had considerable experience in tuition. The school, it is said, will be open on New Year's Day. This is a very remarkable instance of the progress of civilisation amongst the aborigines, and one which cannot fail to be attended with the best effects.— Hawhe's Bay Herald. Marriagb Act, 1854.—8y the Government Gazette of November 19, the officiating Ministers of the following religious bodies are authorised to perform the marriage ceremony for the year 1861 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 Sqftjety of Friends. j