ALEXANDRA. April 17th.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 610, 18 April 1876, Page 2

ALEXANDRA. April 1 7th.

Whil* the totil abstinent movement seems to be nukiuq sfiie.it progress throughout the whole of the W.ukato, perha ./no settlement feels the office of it as mujh as ourowu. formerly tuonry was lavishly spent by the natives in dunk and dmnke mess was the rule whenever they had cish ; buc since the natives fonu^d a, Total Abstinence Society at Kuakuriki ia Itf73 thmgj have been slowly but steadily improve and at thfl meeting held ta»r© during X* D Mdv 270 signed the |>l e d-»e, including T« WJieortt, Hone t« One, B.rtun, Kukaui, and moat of the chiefg withia reich. While U»e meeting was boinsr l>el^ a messsn^er atmveJ from Kuili »itli A letter fvoiu M.iuuhin, encoiir.Hfinj chem to .pursevoTß, and nr,,iaisiii^ tlieui the attßo&c support from the Hauh»u chiefs. l*mug the lftst muetiug- tt fc Hikurtn^i, the King emptied * botrle of spirits upon the giouud before them all, saying that he did so an a token that all spirits *ere henceforth to be banished from his territory, aud would be poured upon the ground if introdaced, an d his lavr has been so rigidly enforced that grog shops, which were rapidly becoming the curse of th© country, are now unknown across tho eemfiscated boundary. The Hauluus seem highly atnuaei at our Btapidity j u disbelieving witchcraft, and consider that Himiona did a brare act, aHd in now simply a martyr to our ignorance. They all novr take it for • granted that we have not got the pluck | fo demand Wiuiata, and the Ngatimania. potos seems almost ashamed of having taken our part against the Waikatos, as 1 hey did at Kwhia and elsewhere when t ley thought that we were about to demand t ie mnrderer. and that a row was imminent. No one now seems to take any interest in him, and he ia still concealed somewhere among his friends. Te Wheoro had been bullying them pretty freely, but they no-v laugh at him for having raised a falsa alarm.— [From a Correspondent.]