ALEXANDRA. February 8th.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 581, 10 February 1876, Page 3

ALEXANDRA. February Bth.

'3%t *ff(»ir of the deten+ion oi Air jVlm-.un ■ children has caused no little excite nei.t here us ,-jroll a< at Kigiao, amd elteviitue on the border, at there are many settler* hiring huli-c&atf /ainiJiei who uaturully f<;el ularmtd if iuch Jk Atatc of tbxag« ooold b« pemaittrd.

those : Mrs Morgan had. been orer at K«whi», haying her ion and daughter, the latter of whom liat beea highly educated whon in Auokland, with her. Mr Morgan himself had pone ou a visit to Captain Swan's place, and when there had learned that Mra Morgan had started back to Alexandra, leaving Miss Morgan and her brother at the MotakoUko Pah. Captain and Mrs Swan were anxious to tec Miss Morgan, and MY Morgan, sent a message to hn daughter by Mr Ellis, a storekeeper renting near the Pali, \ Hiking her to walk nf> to Ciptdiu Swan's hou«o ihe next day, Saturday, or if not convenient ih» n, to cure up on (he Sunday Sho did not j however arrive on ei'luu* diy, and a» C'nptiin wai gown to tho Monkotnko store on Miivlay, Mr Morg-m ga\e liiin a, letter for his daughter, asking her to oj o up to Captain Swan's hoiibp, and iccoinpauipd him as far hs Wrights store on the road to the native settle meat. There lo hi< astonishment he learned tlmt the day after the message had been sent to his daug'itpr, a message had been delivered by a Mjtiikotako native for him at Mr Wrights tli<tt he (Morgan) was not to dare to go to Alotakotako for his d«ughfer. He still asked Capt« n Swan to tako the letter ou and deliver it into tho handi of Miss Morgan herself, who is xorno twenty yea-s of age, and to got a reply or bring her away with him, 'Captain Swan fulfilled his mission, *s far as tho delivery of the letter, and returned, stating that he had waited an hour, but that no reply was sent, that in fact the girl dare not write, and was neither mo r e nor less than a prisoner. Having tried all possible means without recourse to tho law to obtain restitution of his daughter, Mr Morgan * arted next day for Baglan, and laid an information against certain njiire-i for abluction. Dr Harsant, the Resident Magistrate, promised tint a policeman should start over at daylight next morn-ng with a letter for Hobo te One, the native A-ses-or, then in Kawhia, where he was busy with the cropa to come over to Motako ako— hii own nettldnen', a-.d b ing the children to tho Raglan Court unm diately. Tiure is no doubt but that Hone te One will ba very angry at the conduct of his people when he hears it, and that the childien will be at onoe rettoird. Had be been at the settlement at the time the occurrence would nerer hare happened. — From a Cohbispondbnt.