ALEXANDRA. March 28th.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 602, 30 March 1876, Page 2

ALEXANDRA. March 28th.

I had a smoke of the pipe with One to One who has visited this settlement. He has talked the matter of Winiata over with Tawbiao who had been stopping 1 at his settlement during the royul stay iv Kawhia — and the King, he sayß, told him unmistakeably that " Winiata shall not be given up." — and, said One to One, evidently the king meant what he said, for he spoke with much firmness and determiua tion. A meeting had been held, he told me, at Kawhia to consider the matter, but then the general impression was that Winiata should be given up. Nearly 300 natives were present and the discussion was a very lengthy one. Only one chief of mark spoke in favour of shielding the murderer. Te Ngakau said, that as he had escaped from the Europeaus it was olear that Heaven approved the act, and that he for his part would fight to defend him let the consequenoes be what they migbr. "If the fire run through the fern," i said Te Ngakau, " I will not hesitate to Btrike the match." Tiria the King's half Bister strongly denounced the murderer as a cold-blooded unprovoked crime and was supported by all the chiefs of note. It is thought that the King would gladly give Winiata np but that he fears, lest in doing so he should provoke active enemies amongst hia own party who would tumble down the throne. The meeting which will shortly be held at Kuiti may perhaps make a change in the King's intentions. It will be a stormy one for great excite* ment prevails, and wiH,,be held as soon as the King returns. The King party is quite divided in the matter. The Waikatos whose land is already gone are for defending Wynyard, even if it lead to war. The Ngatimaniapoto see things in a different light, aa their lands ar» yet their own. Tapiana, of Kawhia, a notorious Kingite, goes frith the Ngati mania potos in this matter, and that tribe is the stronger of the two both in numbers and influence. The Bishop preached here on Sunday week last to a large congregation. How is it that we, more often than not, do not get your Thursday's issue till Saturday ? — Correspondent.

TH* IMTBMBOTINOUL PIQIOK MatOß.— An •rror occur, in th« telegr»phio report rewired byu»on Monday night from Dunedin and publiihad in our lut isiu©. The highest Dun«din •com w»i not 26 but 23. The total remain, tho lime, 181. Thm the Anokl*nd Uwn not only made the high»»t aggregate, but th« highert indiTidoal HorM.