ALEXANDRA. Aug. 8th.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 659, 10 August 1876, Page 3

ALEXANDRA. Aug. Bth .

There i* little now* bpre either native or E iropean. But little native produce is coming in ami the natives ore chi-fly interesting tln-nn^lved in the spread of the new religioi (T.ireao). Tiie mass of fie natives are being rapidly converted. Some em'ssary of the ' Watunga' has brnnp here jealous of tho informal ion re ative io (he 1-ite official visit to the Kin^ beins; supplied to fie Government puper, ..he 'Whaka Maori,' and endcavourin'to g^t up repreientation oa the part of certain ot Iho leading nativoi tlia' information supplied by 'fa Whsoi-o, wrs jjarbbltd, but tlu natives here only liuigli at what they caU puhapuka fighting, o riTftl no ' spaper quarrels. A lquuli more serious matter is t lie tronble aiism^ from the straying o! European cat'lo cv-r tinboundary hne, and the nece-sary tn^pass of Europeans in quest of them. Tin it. lesented by tomo of the nMtires, and < nlv serves to ohow what might bi) expected tvoax such neighbours >f allowed to r< - -c tie amongst Europeans iv the Witikuto. b'UOM A CoHttESPOSDENT.

On a of tlie deacons of a cort.iin church nsked the bUhop if ho usually kissed the biidc at weddmys '• Always," was the nply. " And l>o\v do you manage when the happy paii* are negruo«:" was the ne\t question. "In all such cases," leplkd the bishop, " the duty oi kissing ii appointed to the deacons." A stingy man, who pretended to bp very fond of his htu«e, but kept bun ncarlj starved, said to a friend, '• You don't know t o\v much we all think of that horse. I >hnll have him stuffed, >o ns to preset ye him, when be dies." — "You'd better stuff lam now " retorted hii iriend, "so as to prt»er\e him living."