ALEXANDRA.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 922, 21 May 1878, Page 2

ALEXANDRA.

May 17. i It has been a busy week for storekeepers and business people gene ; rally, fro^^h^^^ij^ nuciber of | natives who^'cl nie down to witness the '.ofeparturie Government party. Sooie^ag^br other at .Hilsurangi had Reported- that Sir George Grey li|d' sent- for seventy ftons.^f flbur, etc;,,wmcn' he would 'present to the Ki)igses, this report fetched a crowdand doomed a good many to dissapointment. Our pound-keeper did a good business the day Sir George Grey left here, he had a yard full of native's horses, for each of which, ho Required the fee of half-a-crown' before he would release "it, as every horse had at least some twenty who thought themselves entitled to speak as -to the hardships of the case as well as its owner, the pound-keeper had a lirely time of it. To all their arguments he had only one reply, . " homai tho half-crown." The general opinion seemed to be that " Kawana Grey " should stump up for the lot, they having escortedhim down, and therefore ou duty. It says well for their behaviour, that notwithstanding- the large u umber of natives present, only one case, I believe, troubled the police, and that a Wdihine, who having imbibed too freely of Innis' XX, was given m -charge by her own brother, so that she miglit do no damage.

It is said that Tawhiao is not very well pleased at 'his sou's Te Rata's trip with the Government party to Ngaruawahia m the steamer. "He will get a wigging when he returns for being absent without leave. — . Own Correspondent.