IS IT TRUE.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 582, 12 February 1876, Page 3

IS IT TRUE.

The Alexandra Ferry u still in the »m« •tate as it wan a month ago The means of oros-in;; the Waipi mer still consist* of » very small canoe, not at all a >fe for men to risk fcfceir h»es in, l*t alone those -of « omen, and children who have to cross to school and buck, eveiy day. I no i etl a men'ion made in your yaluable journal that Mr John Aubiu, chairman of the Alexandra Town Board, had tried to get a larger canoe, and could not. I kn >w that to be incorrect, and I assert that bad Mr H L. D. Uuffu* been chairman of thai Town Board, lie would have had a large and iafe cinoe on the Waipa cro ting long ago. Half & dozen canoes c »ul.i be got at any tune, as the natives aie all busy with their harvest-and do not nquire them for some time to co tie, and surely something more than ft oanue will be gr»nted by our paternu gOYernmsnt for the township of Alexan ira, 'which from > its pisition and back country is de-fined at -no <+ w stint cUfe to become the -terminus of the Mercer nnd Puniu railway, and also the Metropolis of the Wuikato What about James Scott, who absconded after being arrested? It it true thit a private of thi> A. C. Force and a settler were talking to '6 ott, ia the gully below Scott's house, Heather's Greek/ Is (hat start ing statement tru*, that Scott spent a fortnight in and around Npiruawiihia ; and was even net talking to member* of the Armed Constabulary ?- I am, &c, Pbo Bono Publico. Alexandra, 6th Feb, 1876.