ALEXANDRA.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 802, 7 August 1877, Page 3

ALEXANDRA.

August 6. , There baa been very little doing m the township lately, settlers generally being 100 b aay .on t heir /arms/ ; The La Cross c , match" Constabulary v.' Civilians, which was played here on Wednesday last, was contrary' to expectations -won easily by : the Constabulary, . notwithstanding the short time they hare hod for practice. The Civilians had fio chance wiih them. Another new tbinir by way of pastime * has been started by Mr' J "Wilson, proprietor of the American bowling alley, who has opened a rifle shooting gallery m connection, and is fuir'y patrom«ed. 1 ; ' ' Lambiriij ib now ' general atabijfjst: the flocks m thtf district. The severe frosts we have experienced' la6el>' hive not been very favourable, and a good number hare died.. . A, splendid • dfove of p^s arrived here last week from Mokau, the natives bringing them overland the whole way. Mr Oliver was the purchaser at . 2J4 the l.b. live weieht, and is now converting them into bacon. NATIVE MATTERS. Wi|,h regard to; the j>Eurppeanß who have lately settled . there, I hear it is thein'ention of the Ki^ifes to remove • them, as Sported from Taramki. The" Ngatimaniopo);o .people say it is not their wish to remove them, but the Waikntoe, who, with Tawhiao, , are , > r determined Mokau 'shall riot 5 be "opened to Eaaopeans. No doubt there will be a lot of talk oh the subject before anything is done,, as the Mokau people are very desirous to have CEaropeans to trade with them,. and will resent any interference of ■„ the Waikatos. Tbey justly argue ithat if it is right that Tawliiao and all his people go . to Alexandra and . purchase and sell any thing, they require, why should they: not iave a convenient market for tbeir reqnirflments, this place being too distant rfor them., Bumour » says that TawhiaoV 1 visit here, about a ■•> . fortnight since, whei| he had a long inter- , , view with Major Te Wheoio, was about . this very businesH, TawHao requesting^ the Government to at once remove ;thenew Bettlerß. . Jn fhis part of the district, the natives generally appear more contented than they have been for years. All appear emulous to have the largest quantity of produce for «ale : -next year Politics are at a discount, and even the usual religious meeting of the Tareao's, every tenth day at Hikuran^i, have fallen through, for want of attendance. 1 have just heard that our friend, Te Ngakau, came down here on Saturday, to put his veto on the, sale of^a block of land by Ngatihana, to a gentlenian at Cambridge, who is now about completing the Bale with the owners, I fancy m this case, his -will be labor m vain. '. - Pakaroa, the laot 'of the old chiefs of Ngatihana, and next m rank to the oele. brated William Thompson (Te Waharoa) ■•: i aM<wh'd!b'A been Jorßome time p'iat reaiding at Hikurangi, and very infirm, made his people, carry him to his own place last week/ via Cambridge, that he might die at his beloved Maungatanfcari. About tweny strong ft llowa, two at a "time, ; were his on a:, rough atretcher, goiog at a. jog trot, the whole way. If the journey has .not killedhim by thw, time, the' old fellow ,must be , pretty tbugVyet^OwiiCoHßESPosDißNT