We are having stirring times now. The nw of the troops of this district is now going on. The streets are filled with soldiers and with visitors who have come to sce the sight. 1 passed the Parade ground and saw a battalion going ting up exercises, ete. surprised at the accuracy with which it wes done. Of course, from a Westerner's point of view it was a mot ley-looking crowd, no three were alike, except in their footgear. The oifcers, however, looked very neat and smart in their semi-foreign w seemed to know th ernor is expected here to-morrow: view them. He was expected to-d most of the soldiers in the place went out to meet him. In going to a neighbour ety on my whad I hi S thro about 1,560 of them, lined up along the a re all al bank. They armed with well-kept Manse dozen pieces of qui T was much struck order shown.
Of cour: my outlit excited a good deal of curiosity yet there was not test rodeness OF disrespect shown. I could see no officers in sight.
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