ALEXANDRA.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 851, 13 December 1877, Page 2

ALEXANDRA.

December 19, 1877. t Su ioe «y last letter, there has mmftgry little doing here. The little raft* we had did good, but more x%anKidasly looked for by those hay^g crooe m the ground. Mr J. Fnijo| (i the agricultural implement f n^ll^ bturer » has rather an extraPMtiparv phenomenon m (he shape ,£&* turkey chicken with four lega. The chick is a black one all over, with the exception of the additional pair, of hind quarters, which arc covered with white down O n the thighs, and where-* they join the body, which is somewhat elongated, and the legs 6f a bright yellow, it is as yet quifre lively an I strong, ami Mr Prince hopes to succeed m rearing it. Altogether, it is one of the I have seen tor sonic time past. Our friend Perkins should be about, and try to secure it for his museum. As usuhl, we have heard no more of onr fast request to the Government, to commence the Alexandra and Ngaruawahia road. Instead of sending us any of the Constabulary from Cambridge to oomneuce the work, the Officer Commanding the district has removed about the only available man left here. Like Kihikihi, we are wondering wnen and how soon he w.ll require omt-eookt. bouse at Cimbridge. '..'* . -< ' Thanks to the° Waikato' St&tm Navigation Company, onr communication with Auckland is now frequent and regular, their boats arriving here three time* per week, and Messrs Gibbuw and U-impWeH's Lilly, as usual, makes her trips ap to time. There has baen a g od deal of wool gone do«vn this last fortnight, and I hear there is a good quantity being hel i back iv expectation of a further rise m the mai'ket. Not a day passes, but a messenger cornea down from Hikuraugi, to make enquiry as to when tne Parliament sitting m Wellingtou will be prorogued, as they seem to expeot a visit from the Premier imrajdUtely afterwards. Although the natives are apparently 30 anxious this meeiing siiould take place with their King, I, far one, am not so sanguine as to nuch immediate g od regalia which are to be followed by it, chat have already been foreshadowed by so ne, such as " * cordial uti lew an ling between the two races," " a main line of railway through th.i Ki;ig country to Taranaki," &c. It, will yet take some time to root out their prejudices against the intrusion of the Pkkeha, and the confiicuion of the Waikato m particular, and for the latter grievance, there is no '<oubt whatever to any one who knows them, they do not yet despaiv of getting some kind of return or compensation. — Own Correspondent.