ALEXANDRA.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 754, 17 April 1877, Page 3

ALEXANDRA.

"■ .fdJT.--' NATIVE MA'rtfeKS: '■ ' ' : ' ! "~ -j • .- .■ ■ I, ' ) „■■•[ T. t (- 1 i •.■• l! 'lilt '•'.,■ (( ?^rj[vi^^liljs,tni' i T^ilQwV.'B^tha^ ,feY canoes have come down from up. country , with their, j>ro,duce, there /being wo^muoh^ ganger./ r iu 4oirig' so. xhe three tnrasning machines belonging.to the Ngatiprihiawe, 1 Ngai. ptingawairo,w and • Ngatimahuta re^ SDectively^j which • havferbeen' tihrash;irig a^i Kopua,, KiVß,' now ( fin^shed |; and from^tfieir .acconn^;teipt, have thrashed 0,900 bushels of wheat and Wts. - There are also large crops at JheKuiti^andj p.ther, settlements, none' of which have, /yet been brought down. MIGRATION OP PjRIEN^LY NATIVES TO THE KING fco'uilTßY.

' A large;; number (of the iWaikatb friendlies^are on the way up the lirer, to take ! up their' residences in' -the King country j l! the Revs Mi" Barton and Heta ' Tarawfoiti are 1 accompanying them. They i are, I am informed, going to 4 'form a- new* settlement on the east side 5 of the s^aipa, opposite iKopiia ; "Major Te Wbeoro's people are among ithem." Old Manuhiri and a number of his' people are to come down to Kapiha on Tuesday next to meet them, when 3 feagt will he bold, and no doubt speeches made, when we .BhaU,knpw ( !moreiof thciirlintehtions, perhaps, than . at present; i i r) ' h --j Tawhiao r is I,',1 ,', I Bee^dur^Raglah j cprr^B^bii<ieijt'says I jwas m.isinf9rmc(d sliglify m my( accodnfcln a formet letter; tHat any was ! .g9ing there to meet* the. ;^wo 'riative , yesselS'J'' the' "' Echo' and' * Pawii. t only know my information Was from i private letter received from there, and from Tawhiao himself ; so lam quite 'certain it was correct. There appears, however, to be some hitch, as the vessels have, not yet goue thppe but | hea^d/ again yesterday they are shortly expected.

THE OAETURE Of TE PATI. ....... Can it be trae that only £50 is to be divided amongst t^ose whfl W^pe concerned ia the arrest, of the murderer Te Pati, and that Sefrgeant .Higginson, who was one of the most active, who sent Norgrove to the spot' where he was captured, au4 Wf}S out aU night himself, and to whom Major Mail* m his report gave the credit and ' thanks— is to get 6hat r credit only and ; nothing substantial a.9 well ] $heya must be a mistake somewhere j at least, so says everyone here. Our inhabitants were no little surprised, aqd mw flf. th,e fa,ty se^i not a little disappointed m the early part of the week, on it transpiring that one of our settlers had stojen a march on theuij and .quite contrary jto :ru|e. ; has gone au{J got marriexi without consd^tmg' any orie^-rtliab is,' of course, exoepting thi Registrar, Mr J D Hill, and the officiating clergy man, the Rev L C Brady, who were q uite . reticent qr\ , tfte subject. The fa\r bride was o,ne o,f our Alexander belles, and well &no wn to many at a distance who have been attending QongertSj soir6.es, &c, w-here her. 8eL t yjc.es,.,as an \anaateur, were always, cheerfully given and 'appreciated for any public object, — Own ConRESPO^p^T, _