ALEXANDAR.

Waikato Times, Volume XI, Issue 870, 17 January 1878, Page 3

ALEXANDAR.

January 15,1878. last week, and our storekeepers and otherc are looking proportionately cheerful. Mi Duffus, I observe, has commenced a large adpUtjon of the increasing business. A great many natives visit the township daily, obtaining their supplies for harvesting, which is done by them by co-operation.* fjThey. have no wages to but all about Eopua, each one that has a patch ox wheat goes to assWothers, and when his turn comes all hands go to out his wheat, and the owner has nothing to r do but find the rest; last" of the. teason* is no trifle,,as many-pf hj& friends' 'are -at lioeftf I obtaining advances for that purpose from the storekeepers. ..Of!.';•:»' , There a [meeting of., some 300 natives' at Kopua,' on by the invita-j tion of the old and prutoipal Waikafo chief, Tawhia Takerei Terau,. who has: now apparently at the jpojint of death. s~ Tawhiaq. -who is- in .great grief at -tne V illness of : hismatua' (father), 1 ; as>Ke calls -jfrjftn, ;wasi ) abgnt>tp i r i r^oYe v hun| up to ' HHrarangi/ "Hence, "the meeting to see > him previous to hi£>id£patture. The old managed to' mniiiur r a*few ! words ahd w£th a njwhber jof his visitors,-who he told,not to lament over 1 The -Rev; •VfrA. Barton and Major Te Wheoro we~~e ( both present, were all the principal r Kingtte chiefs. Tawhia has never shoiie conspicuously ;as a warrior, but was always a.mediator in tribal wars or disputes—in fadfc,ra Maori diplomatist. He hsttJfdf someiyearf—since the fall of Rangiriri, "when he was taken prisoner while covering the retreat of the King received "a Gkiverninpnt , pension/- . j ,-••>•.. ■■-■. .„ .-j , \ The waipa River has been vera low for some tune, and the WaikatoMsteJam Company's steamer H Waikato" is aground between here and. for {his week past, blocking up thVriver,'and thNis putting a stopito thef?opposition boat, j the "Lilly" —the-Company's boat lying in the Channel. <■ ~v/o; ri riv<\ I observQ the Government are going in for* 'Pdst-'and Telegraph Office jd a new coat of paint, which was greatly needed. —Own Cob.V!" i-.1-.-J ;- li, J„; t J it .JV/