ALEXANDRA. QUARTERLY LICENSING MEETING.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 632, 8 June 1876, Page 3

ALEXANDRA. QUARTERLY LICENSING MEETING.

.Application far a now license nt To JVw.unutu : Mr Fred Gandin applied for .-a license for the building erected by Mr -Canny, Ilefused on tha ground that ■tfclie Commissioners had decided on three ■■former occasions that one house wan sail Indent for the towiuidp, and Haw mo ire;is«H to alter that decision. Cerftral Wait.ito Hotel, Te Awanmtu: j Ts\r Lewis' application far * reuewal of I 'til is license was grunted. Alexandra, Hotel, A'exandra - My l ? inohs' ftjipKctvti.Mi was granted. ]i>xcliaTi!jo ittftel, Alexandra: Mr Wilsson's jippiicatiou whs granted. Ootboy' 131 3 UcyloL, Kihikihi; lierrefral to Mr Carboy granted. Andewon's Hotel, Kihikihi ■: Mr Ander.•gon'sAppliciition was grunted. Edwards' Hotel, Onanpo ". Tho applica<Uon of Mr Edwards vraa TJais «oncludod the business.

TCATIVE MATTERS. Tke Alexandra correspondent of the *' Crosa," ■writing of tlio late n meting at Knipiht, says :—": — " Of comae, I, like otttar people, woald feave liked to hare hoard all that took place at their long and frequent and 10 even veutvned a question to that effect, "but the only inforxiiatioD I obtained from Tawhlao was, ■*' Wait (taihou), yoo will know all about akin time. I will only say our talk was • good and satisfactory to both of us. I only wiih all the pakehas were like McLean, then there would be no trouble." ((MeheiKift « pera nga pakeha katoa kia te Makarini « kore c raru r»rt»). — I am sorry to have to record that strong- endeavours 4ire being made to npaet the good bo un- ■ ndoubtedly done by Sir Donald's visit It hardly seems credible, but there are persons so utterly blind to the interests of the colonists at large, and of this district in particular, that; animated by political animosity, I presume, thoy have paid Agents residing amongst the Kingites, circulating the most unscrupulous defamatory reports against the Native Minister and the existing Government One of these gentry came up from town, and mot ft half-caste (nephew of a person of wellknown Maori proclivities) at Kopua on Thursday last, and spent the night there. The half-caste ftnd agent were up the whole night talking' to the natives in the t trail I have mentioned; Their eloquence, irtWdtrer, was ineffectual, as an influential ciiief informed me that " the natives are not such fools as to believe all they hear j" and one pertinently remarked — " What brings the said half-caste to reside amongst as, away from his oven poople ? What is bis work ? Who pays him ? Why does he not visit Alexandra like the others'? And, lastly, what has he been guilty of?" These questions are now becoming- general, so I think the employer or employers are now wasting their money, and might withdraw tlioir agents, aud so save their pockets. Tarapipipi, the Piako chief, with some twenty followers, were at Kaipiha yester■day, en route for Hikurangi, to sec Tawhiao, and from thence to Knwhia to s feast and crying match over some deac relatives. lßfiM

|[B -foro Major'Mnir, R.M., H C Gibson, Estf, And Ci,ptaiu Kockctt, Commissioners.]