ALEXANDRA. March 15th.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 596, 16 March 1876, Page 3

ALEXANDRA. March 15th.

A man named Paihia was acting m substitute for Te Bete, the uiualj mailman, when the mail «u stopped, at alluded to by your Te Awamutu Correspondent yesterday, by three nrmed mouwho threatened to shoot him. Thpy, however, allowed him to past when he explained to them that he was not acting the apy but only carrying despatches 'from Te Wheoroto Manuhiri. The half-castes Emery anfi Bearancke, who " w6re arrested were taken tot flam's houie and kept by him for the night but Wat back next morning with a caulion to tberr settlement Te v Kopus. Rewi spoke strdngly ajr,ainst the lawlessnes of tho "Waikatos saying thas they were determined to get bitrfi*to trouble. ( "If they could not steal t pig, t^ey* must take % home, and if they could not get a borae they must kill a man." The Rauhaui who' visit the settlement seem afraid that a row might endanger their lands, and ■ay that if the Government are going to fight for "Wynyard they will hoist the Queen's flag at all "their settlements and "borne m for protection, or Sght for the Q-OTernment if they raise a native force to capture him. They all agree that Eewi would rather raise a' force and take him, and they would rather see this than sco European soldiers go through hi* country. „^ Tne report has been in some Way Spread 'that Hbir Donald McLeans reign is just at an end, and that Sir George Gtey is about to tako the sole control of natire matfcers, and deal with them in the most liberal spirit. The report must lessen the influence of the 1 Defence Minister. The satires are becoming * rery sober people, and complain bitterly that we supply natives with ' drink to take Up the'ocuuiry. A drunken natire is now rarely seen here.— Prom a Corebspond-