ALEXANDRA.

Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1312, 25 November 1880, Page 2

ALEXANDRA.

Business has not been very brisk here lately, although a large number of natives have passed through the township en route for Hikurangi. They do not appear to have benefited much by the Patetere Luul sales, as the majority of them were pretty hard up. | A few of the business people have a touch of the gold fever, and have sub- ! scribed to pay the expenses of a couple of j prospectors, who will leave here for the Aroha to-morrow. As showing the accessibility of the new diggings to all , parts of the WaiUato, Mr Asinuss l'jffc here on Saturday morning Usb on his pony, and arrived at O'Halloran's hotel the same evening-. Sunday, he parsed in visiting the prospectors claim, and looking around, in the evening lie started for home, and on Monday morning at 8 o'clock was busily eng*<red in preparing a batch of bread for the oven. He is very sanguine the field will prove a paving one, and intends to t y his luck there. Mr J. N. Miller of Cambridge, who was run over by some unknown horseman at Ohaupo on Friday night last, is improving, although still in groat pain from his internal injuries. Mr Finch, the proprietor of the Alexandra Hotel, is of opinion that someone residing at or about the vicinity of Te Awamutu railway station is fond of bottled beer, and not very particular at whose expense or how he obtains it. Three cases came up for him on Friday evening last, and on Saturday the carrier could only bring him one case, leaving the other two intact at the station until the following Monday, during which time they had been broached and seven bottles of al abstracted. Mr F. congratulates himself there were no cases of spirits consigned to him at the same time, which would doubtless have been sampled in a similar manner ;he would also like to know who is responsible for goods thus being tampered with. Professor Fraser, the Phrenologist, gave one of his lectures here on Friday last ; the audience was a small but appreciative one. The professor read the bumps of a well-known settler at Harapepe, who presented himself for that purpose on the platform, the truthfulness of which would be sworn too by every ono present acquainted with him. — [Own Correspondent, November 24.]

An Irishman commences a description of a city, in a letter to his friends, in this wise : Talkin' about the place, its a very nate an' hansom' place, considerin' its plainness, an' there aint a schmaller city in the younyun, nor out ov it nayther, what can bate it for size, while for popylation it goes ahead ay any place in the worruld with less inhabitants into it, an' as to healthfulness, there ain't a single livin' person dead since I was here, — Youkcrs Gazette,