ALEXANDRA

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 2006, 16 May 1885, Page 2

ALEXANDRA

♦• Thkrk is veiy little new s to dnonicle liphliistunu. All the nitivcs hut i ft u who ]i\p in tlio uciintv, .no .it wuik hi then l.ulway ,md i'>ad coutiauts, .met with few e\Ct»ptlOlls dI.UV tlll'll supplies tl (1111 Kllllkiln. Consequently busings i-- dull uitli mu local stoiekeepiM". Wo have been \isitrd b> some of the officers of the Austrian ni.in-o'-w ar X.uda, and yesteiday Capt. Favu/, und his tint lieutenant, accompanied l»y Majm Jackson .md Mr A. Kay, who dn>ve the puty »\« lu-re, visited T.iwhi.io'-, sottlen.i'iit at Whatiwhntihoe, s\ lute they obtninod a few ciinos of native m.inuf.ictuie. C.t|>t. J''.iyen/ infoiuied me th.it he w.i^ tho hi->t lieutenant of the Xov.u a when that vct-sel \ iMte<i New Zealand sonio >eirs ago on a si lentific espedition. It will be rpiiieinbcied by ni.my that two Waikato chiefs, Wiieinu Toe'too and Hemar.i to Reie, letuined with Dr. Hochstetter on board tlie \.)\;u.i to Austiio-, and subsequently went to England and were picsented to the <^ueen. Capt. Fayen^ anviously enquiied foi tliese natne-. Toetoe is dead. He was an active opponent of the Government in tho late war. When he returned from Kiißland, Governor Brown sent him up the Waik.ito .is . i mediator, but Toetoe joined his countrymen. The other, Honiara, did likewise. He is of Wahanui'B party, and h now at To Kuiti, so the captain could not nitoiview him as he wished to do. The captain and hi* officer stayed at Finch's Hotel last n'ght, and returned by train this mouiing'. I think the most numerously attended «ale of a like kind that has been hold fur some time past, was Mr W. J. Huntei's halo of Mr Norland's stock and fuiuituuon Monday last. Notwithstanding the depicssinu said to e\iht atnoncr-'t tl«e farming cnmmtmity, good puces wcie obtained. Asa memento of turning the fust sod of tho extension of the tumk lailway, 1 was ■>howu a capital pliotoyiaph of t lie Awamutu Voluuteer Cavahy, when [decent on the occasion. Tho picture was taken by Mr 1). M. Bupre, Resident Kngineei, liainilton, and would do ciedit to the studio of any professional artist. Theie have not been any Kn pro bagi made lieio tbi-> season's phe'isint shooting. Tho best I h.ue heard of was si v brace and a half which fell to the gun of Dr. Blunden, of To Awaiiuitn, on the Ist. — (Own Couespondent, M ty 1 Itli )