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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 5, Issue 230, 11 April 1861, Page 2

Office, Wanganui.' h ' ' "A f iril 10th, -18611 T/7E attention oD Persons resident within the'Wanganui Militia District, : liable to serve in the Wanganui Regiment l of Militia, is particularly called to Sections Nos. 2, 6, 7,- ' and 17, ofdhe New Militia Act. 3rd November, 1860 “ 11. Regulations to be made hy the Governor, tinder Section 5 of the said Act, shall contain provisions as follows, - or to the like effect, that is to say, , ' _•.• Every Militia District-shall be divided into so many;Divisions as the Goyeriidr'siiiill think' fit, and the. Militiamen resident in sucliDivision shall be formed into a BattAlibh or Company.. Battalion or 'iiiw;tliw classes ; the firstclass* sliall , cpnsist' ’ i°i‘tH- u,,M ? n, ® ,l .an4 alj widoweW without Selnldren, between the ages df'l.S and 40 both inclusive, who shall J>e called First I Class Service men ; the ‘ Secbnd Class .shall j consist of all marned riieh abd; : wfdoWer^ f Vritli '• children,- between the same ages, Wiio shall' be • i Ci)ni . ass Sejrvfee.. men ; ami; the j third- Class^shall consist of all men between the be called the Reserve men.

VI. Section X of the “Militia Act. 1858" ; js hereby repealed aii^l. m lieu thereof: Be it enacted that every man except as hereinafter,, jexctpted between the ages of sixteen years and ' j fifty.ftve years being a British .subject and not ! a , n :^ ri S ma ! ative w ho shall reside within j the Colony, shall be liable to serve in the Milir Jtia : I that, the Judges of the Supreme Courti the Executive. Council of the Colony, I Members of the General Assembly, Superin-' J tendents of Provinees, Members of Provincial ,• Councils during (Session, Clergymen, j?riests/ Religion, /Cat6dlHsts,">tf^ persons afflicted with lunacy or unsoundhess : . of mind, deafness, blindness, or with - any other infirmity that may rerider •W?™ unfit for- service; (such disease or infir- :■ .“W., ‘J uI y certified l»y a'kedical' Prac- ' titioner appointed by the Governor) shall be exempt from serving on such Militia. , said Muitia A ct, are hereby, repealed,, and in lieu thereof, be it enacted that, Ihe Senior Officer of every Battalion or .' Company or any other Commissioned Officer appointed by him,■•shall, enrol- all the men’ ihable to serve therein, and any man who shall not vvithin three : months after his;.becoming liable to serve,; give in his rianie, age, .and place of Residence, to such, Officerin order * to be enrolled, shall forfeit any sura; not exceeding £5. ; ; JVovidedalways■ t]mt ,'npthi;ng4fin this Act.contained shall apply to any Battalion or Company of Militia already enrolled under the said Militia Act,, til ‘ ilie Governor shall, by warrant wilderhis hand, have declared the same to be applicable, and such .-Warrant shall have been 1 piiblished in a - Newspaper circulating In the District to which such Company belongs.” .. Officer will be m attendance, at the V Nlilitia Office between; the hours of 11 and 1 ‘ o t-lock every Wednesday and Thursday from this date, until further iVotice; to enrol Men liable to serve in the Militia. And Notice is hereby given tliat*under the power vested inme, the Senior Officer of the Wanganui (Regiment jOf Militia, / have appointed Lieutenant and Acting Adjutant, //Ifred Boss, of the said Wanganui TJegimeht, to enrol all men here- • ■after liable to serve therein during any absence * of; me, the said Senior Officer from Wanganui. . /. B. COOPER, . • .? ■ Major Wafigantti l : Militia and Volunteers.'

Notice to Contractors. TENDERS will be received until Thursday, the 18tli inst.., at the Engineer’s Office, Court Ho use Buildings, Wanganui,- for d/stalling about 38 Chains of the Rangitikei Road, situated on the Wangaehu Flat. .JAMES HOGG, ; Engineer. Engineer's Office; April 11, 1861. Notice. . - . .. c wanganu^,. I’OtK ljil'frj/ IN accordance with a Reqiusitijon; signed by several of the Inhabitants Vf this a Public Meeting will.be. lielJ at .the. v|hui Hotel on I’hursday, tfiaiSecojid pf next, at noon, for thepurpose of ' .taking-Into consideration the necessity of-establishing a d/arket at 7/anganui- for all kinds of Dive - iS'tock and Farm Produce generally., , . ; . D. S. i)URIE; R.M. - To Ditcliers^ ABOUT 60i : .Chains .of Ditches, to be., deepened. ■. : V/pply rtQ: AL f * l-.:. Z- - ’*■? N. & BE AMISH, , , . Turakina. //priF4; 1861/ Private Training School WANGANUI; v . ; .' T . 11. has .made arrangements e to receive '%a 'Pupilf to: be ‘'educated with his family at his residence, Victoria Avenue. n-'. , / Children of both sexes will be received into the Day School. ;/c r; i . . • ; ■A. limited number of : Bqjs.- as hoarders; at moderate terms, would be well cared for; , //pril 10,1801*