ALEXANDRA. March 6, 1876.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 592, 7 March 1876, Page 3

ALEXANDRA. March 6, 1876.

There is'noparticalar native news just now. All are busy threshing their crops. " A few carioe loads of wheat and oats have '"been brought down for sale, and' the' price '■ paid for the latter is not at all satisfactory to the producers, 3s per bushel, who cannot aaa'erstand'w'hy litst year's rate of five shillings' tWo ushel is not given. TaWhiao'is still atKawhia. The natives iiere know ''nothing of the proposed between Jtis Excellency the XJovernor and King' Tawhiao at Hone-te-One's settlement' at Kawhia. Ot Winjati's movements nothing certain is known. .All up-country natives 1 "who arrive here deny his presence at the *Kuiti, and are greatly atriused at the reports as to his whereabouts. o!he significant manner, however, in •which all declare that " "Winiata will *never be caught by the pakeha," inclines me to think, in sopite of their denial that for the present at least lie "is safe in the ?King count* y. Complaints and dniversardissatisfaction are expressed at the manner of the proceedings of the Mangapiko Highway Board. The road between here and Whatawhata, the formation of which has * been so long 'desired and agitated for as 4 the most necessary work in the district, , appears as far off as ever. A party of the A. C. Force were sent, as every one "thought, to open this road, instead of •which they* have for some time past been *" tiddly winking " between "here and Heather's Creek, already a fairly passable % road, formed by "men of the force some time »ince. Where their services are really required, between Ngahinipouri c and Wnatawhata, where no road Vhatever is in existence, not a tnan has been sent or anything done to forward this necessary work. All sorts of reports of course are current as to this neglect. I that two of the trustees are awfully disgusted at the neglect in opening the 'road, but declare they can do nothing. It is also a very generally expressed 'opinion that the .duties of the office fakfe more time than the chairman can afford "to give to properly fulfil them, and that a secretary should 'be at once appointed to assist him. "The trustees complain that resolutions are passed at meetings <4.nd no further notice afterwards taken of "them. Good Templary appears to be going a-head in Waikato. A lodge is about to "be opened ne.re. Some twenty-five names I hear are already down for initiation. Our public&nß must in for private entrances if this goes on, 6r stut up shop. Active canvassing is going on with the younger proposed members among the - young ladies of the district to become sisters of the order, but as yet not many such bare joined.