ALEXANDRA.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 827, 4 October 1877, Page 2

ALEXANDRA.

. . October Ist. There has beeo nothio.4 p» tioa.arly noteworthy lately, if £ exoeps a visit of inspection"'by the offioar ojinmandmg the district, nit aoooai »aniei by a dufeuoe minister,' a most udu<su»l ocoarreaoe. Mr J O fill ha* b*an naving a clearance eale at eoit .prices, praparcory to leaving here £>r titanUtvn, aud has done.a brisk business. . : Mr Aabins sale of > Japaaele oario'e and other g k>4j, w*s also a great suco ta, the greater part of them'being disposed #f. Tawhiao hai returned from the Kuifcl, where he wem<: to., bring the remainder of the VTaikatos to Hiku'-angi tie came dowa to Kopua on Saturday lass acaem* !>anied by twenty-seven canois filled with natives and their baggage, which they are now toUn i Co Ska* rat)gi, -whire Chare v no* a rapidly increasing larfe popalatioa. I observe, O'Coanel kae been narrating his crip, aod reception by the king natives, a« he eaye to HtknraugL lAα aos kajvv hi* reason for making anch stateaieats, bat from careful enqairy, I fiad he was never allowed to proceed to Hikurangi at alll, but stayed with the ferrymau at Kopn» crossing; near Kaipiha, for a week, vainly endeavouring t#t prece.ed further. There is a plight di"«Kbaaotf at Puoia, between the newly arrived Kupspas with Ratuaa. Ther are trying to take poj< eeneion of • piece of fence i land, in posMwioQ of some of the owaere. The latter pulled down part of a house Riiunt'a people were erecting, at • friendly hint te keep a little farther off. At Kopua the natives are still plough* iag away t J r eow more wheat. Oae would think it rather late Iα the season, but they do not seem to think co. Taa hard frost of Friday might laef, cut off a large quantity of the early potatoes planted.— OWK CORRKBFONDBST.