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No. B.—Motion made and Question put —That a sum of £250 be appropriated to defray the expenditure on account of Inter-Provincial Postal Communication between Nelson, Wairau, and Wellington, and Nelson, and Motueka. —[Mr. Weld.) Committee divided. Ayes—l 7. Noes—4. Messrs. Sewell Messrs. O'Neill Gledhill Gra y Macandrew Lee Monro Greenwood (teller). Carleton Wortley E. G. Wakefield Brown Picard Clifford Mackay Weld Revans Fitzgerald Ludlam Featherston Travers (teller). No. 9.—Marriage Bill. Clause 6. In every case of marriage intended to be solemnized in the Colony of New Zealand, one of the persons intending marriage shall, under his or her hand, give notice in the form in the schedule A, to this Act annexed, to the Registrar of the District within which one of the persons shall have dwelt for not less than three days, and shall therein truly state the age, name and surname, and the calling or profession, and condition of each of the parties intending marriage, the dwelling place of each of them, and the time that each of them has dwelt in such District, and the church, building, or place, in which such marriage is intended to be solemnized. Provided always that if the persons intending marriage dwell in the districts of different Registrars, the like notice shall be given to the Registrar of each district.—Read. Question proposed—That the Clause as read stand part of the Bill.—{Mr. Forsaith.) Amendment proposed—That the Clause be struck out of the Bill.—{Mr. Picard.) Question put—That the words proposed to be omitted stand part of the question. Committee divided. Ayes—l 6. Noes—4. Messrs. Brown Messrs. Kelham Ludlam Picard Sewell Gray Macandrew Carleton (teller). Gledhill W akefield Lee Fitzgerald Taylor Weld Forsaith King Hart , Ludlam Clifford Cutten (teller). hereupon original question put and carried. No. 10. Clause 10. It shall be lawful for such Registrar to whom such notice shall have een gnen as aforesaid, immediately upon receipt thereof to issue a certificate authorizing the solemnization of such Marriage in the cases following, that is to say First, where it shall appear from the notice and solemn declaration hereinafter mention that both the paries intending ilarriage, are of full age, or if a party be under age, that such party is a widow