Volunuseb and Militia Review. — On Monday afternoon the Wanganui Troop of Cavalry, the Alexandra Troop of Lancers, the Victoria Company of Volunteers, and the Mi litia assembled at the Market Place, and hav ing been inspected marched out to the Race Course. The weather was anything but pro pitious, rain falling heavily, so that there were few spectators ) but the march was worth see ing, the troopers looking exceedingly pictu resque with their red burnousea covering them and the lancers adding to the effect by their brilliantly colored pennons. Having arrived at the Race Course, the men went through the various evolutions with great order and steadi ness.' The Cavalry and Lancers especially distinguished themselves, their charges being made like those of veteran troops, the extend ed line being as straight when they halted a s when the order was given to charge. The Lancers, of whom the number was small, be ing good horsemen, kept their place well be side the more experienced Wanganui troop. On their return to Tylee's flat, the whole force was extended in line — a fine spectacle — and file-firing from right of sections commenced. This was executed with a rapidity and exact ness highly creditable. After marching back to the Market Place the men were dismissed. The Seat or Government Commissioners. —The Hon. Mr. Docker and Mr. Gunn em barked in the Rangatira on Sunday morning at eleven o'clock, together with the Superin tendent; and- the vessel immediately got un der steam and proceeded down the river. A number of people assembled at the wharf to see the Commissioners depart* The Waitotara Road is being proceeded with rapidly, men being now at work two miles and a half beyond the Kai iwi. We learn that many of the men, who have been in the colonies for years, say that they have not yet seen a place equal to this, and speak of settling here. Mr. Hogg, the Provincial Engineer, has found a bed of very good limestone in the Okehu Valley, near Kai-iwi: it is 50 feet deep, and is supposed to extend over the whole of the block-; and it is more than probable that coal will be found beneath ; consequent ly Mr. Hogg has advised that a trial should be made by boring. -

Wanganui. (From the Wanganui Chronicle, Sept. 