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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 8, Issue 380, 25 February 1864, Page 2

Pirelimiiiary Notice- Wanganui Races, Messrs. Gudgeon & Co. WILL hold their usual LAND, CATTLE, and HOUSE SALE during the Race. Week. Parties having Stock for sale,-will please to, .send the description to the auctioneers as possible for general advertisement. Taupo-quay, February 11th, 1864. To arrive per & Rose,’ from Eondon. Q C ASES CLOTHING* Men’s, Youths’, and Boys’, adapted for the coming Winter season, and well assorted. EDWIN T. WOON, February 18, 1564. New Goods Lust Arrived per “ Storm Bird”. JQOE and tweed coats, trowsers and vests, Crimean shirts, bule serge coats and shirts, Scotch and English tweeds, black and blue Military cloth caps, black and coloured neckties, Ladies’ and Gent.’s coloured kid gloves, Ladies’ assorted hose, cotton velvet, black elastic, flannels, oil baize, cheese cloth, glass cloths, Turkish towels, toilet quilts, hat-band crape, white long cloth shirts, French merino, cobourg, alpaca, table linen, calicoes, See., Sec. Teas, sugars, coffee, Crosse and Blackwell’s pickles, vinegar, Lea and Perrins’ sauce, currants, raisins, canded peel, salmon, lobsters, herrings, anchovy paste, raspberry vinegar, sardines, bottled fruits, jams and jellies, Indian curry powder, calves’-foot jelly, swing looking glasses, and various other goods. Edward Howe, General Store, Taupo Quay. Wanganui, February 25, 1864. Militia and Volunteer Orders, Wanganui, 24th February, 1864. THE Undermentioned Troops will Parade at the Times and Places as under, after which they will not be required to assemble (but once a Month), unless for actual service, until October next. CAVALRY VOLUNTEERS. Wanganui Troop, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 28, 29, and 80th March, at 10 o’clock, a m., at the Market Place, Wanganui. Turakina Troop, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 23, 29, and 30th March, at 10 o’clock a.m. at the Ben Nevis Hotel, Turakina. INFANTRY RIFLE VOLUNTEEI S. Victoria Rifle Volunteers, will Parade at the Market Place, Wanganui, on the 7th, March, at 2 o’clock p.m. Caledonian Rangers, at Marangai, on the Bth March, at 2 o’clock p.m. Prince of Wales, at Roberts’ Paddock, on the 9th March, at 2 o’clock p.m. Union Company, at Ben Nevis Hotel, Turakina, on the 10th March, at 2 o’clock p.'m. Members absenting themselves without leave will be required to parade with the Companies of Militia, as may be hereafter ordered. By Command ALFRED ROSS, Captain and Adjutant, W.M.

Militia., Militia, ami Volunteer Office, Wanganui, 23rd Feb., 1864. PIP HE following Communication, received i. from the Hon. the Minister for Colonial Defence, is published for general information. By command, ALFRED ROSS, Captain and Adjutant W.M. Colonial Defence Office, Auckland, ]2ih Feb. 1864 Sir, —I have the honor to inform you> that I am directed by the Hon, the Mi nister for Colonial Defence, to forward you a copy of the Proclamation dividing the Wanganui Militia District into two divisions, and enclose a cop}' accordingly. The proclamation will appear in the next Government Gazette. 1 have the honor to be, Sir, Your most obdf. servant, F. D. Fenton, per J. Waymonth. Major Rookes, Com’g Militia and Volunteers, Wanganui. WANGANUI MILITIA REGULATIONS. BY virtue and in exercise of the authority in me vested by the Militia Act 1858,! and the Militia Act Amendment Act 1860, I, Sir George Grey, K.C.B.,the Governor! of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby make and issue the following Orders for the regulation of the Wanganui Regiment of Militia: — The Wanganui Militia District shall be divided into two divisions, —namely, the Wanganui division and the Rangitikei division. The Wanganui division shall comprise all parts of the old Wanganui district except the portion hereinafter described. The boundaries of the Rangitikei division shall be as follow, —namely, On the North-west, the boundary line between Rangitikei and Turakina districts as laid down iu the maps of the Survej r s of the Provincial Government of Wellington ; on the North-east, the boundary of the land purchased from the Natives; on the East, ih • Rang : tikei river ; and on the West and South-west, the Sea. 2 The Militiamen resident in each such division shall constitute a Battalion. 3. Each Battalion shall be divided: into three classes. 4. The F’trst Class shall cousist of all unmarried men, and all widowers without children, between the ages of sixteen years and forty years, both inclusive, who shall he called the First Class service men. The Second Class shall consist of all married men and widowers with children, between the same ages, who shall he called Second Class service men; and the Third Class shall cousist of ajl men between the ages of