ALEXANDRA.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1864, 17 June 1884, Page 2

ALEXANDRA.

There has been, as usual at this season of the year but littlo ne\\b ntumiy in this locality. What pi mcipally engages the attention of the old lesidents, is the piopobed social le-urnoti of the membeib of tho 2nd Waikato Regiment on Fuda-ynext, t!ie2ot'i ins-taut. The pi ogi ammo consist-, of a dinner for the veterans, and a ball to follow for tiieir friends. The aft'an promises to bo a gieat success. It is liowover to bo hoped that all those, who intend to bv.- pujsont, and have not ahead y done .sa, will .it oucj I forwaid their names to tho hCcieUry, so that due provision may be made foi tlietn by the committee. : Native news is not exciting evcept to . r t feu of the iangj.tir.is, whit .no anticip itmg' whose turn it will be no vt, to find f.ivom with the f4o\eiinuent, and get .1 pension foi hfo of £200 a year. Wlien .Mi Bryce, after the Wlutnyhatihoe meeting, wiote and published his letter to Wahxnui, holdin» him alone respon*>ibli' foi Tawhiao not having accepted the toims ofleiod him by the Goveinmcnt, a gie.it number of tlio Ng.itinjftruopotos wcie in no end of a fun'c as to what Mi Biyce mt'Mided by what they conbidcicd a thicnt on In-^ i>art. That a laipe slice of land 01 hoinethmg <>f i the kind Vvonld be co;ihv_.it;od, on account of Walunm's contirnacy was thought not at all an nnprobibility, themfore the call to the Upper Hon,e, cauving the lewaid ot £200 pel annum, for obstiuction to the (Uneinnu-nf, i^ immensely poimlar, which will some day, no doubt, when negotiation-, once moie take place, be lemembcied by some other " big fisli" of the Ngatunauiapotos, and they aie by no means scarce. ' Since the abo\o was wutfcon, news of the defeat of the v has been leccived, and but little sympathy e\piossed by tho i l'jiuo])eans heic. Tho Maons, howevu, weie jubilant when once .is-^mcd it was tine. They aie peifeetly sati^hed that by Tawhiao and his Ati\.v' the Government came to [>nof. That Tawhiao is leceivm^ all honom from England is also to them a souice of prenci.il congiatulation, and, T uni sony to add, a stioug suspicion of the boiu lull's ot New Zealand Goveinmcot ie])iosontntives, who had assiued them th.it T.uvln.io would be u'cogm&ed m m Kngl.ind. — (Own Co)iespondo))t )