UPPER WAIKATO. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Alexandra November 13.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXI, Issue 2603, 21 November 1865, Page 5

UPPER WAIKATO. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Alexandra November 13.

Nothing of any importance baa occurred at this sattlement since \vriting lait. The men aro being struck off service pay as fast as possible, the 2nd Waikato militia being (as it is expressed) in possession of their farm sections *nd towu acres. This is peifectly true ; hero they aro in possession, and most of them without a penny to help themselves with. Fo Government works ; nothing to do. A man can't subsist on the Government rations, so, of course, the lesult is obvious — they still continue to leave. The mariied men will bs the last to go, but eventually they will have to follow suit. The Maoiis never had a finer chauco at us than they have got at the present moment; but eveu they "scorn to drive us out by foice, when they can got the laud again without the trouble." These aro the exact words of a Maori chief respecting us The company of the Ist Waikato Regiment, doing duty here, will have enough to do after the loth; for lam told that on that day all the " 2nd men," excepting the nctu»l staff, are to be sti nek off pay. Colonel Hauiiigtou, commanding the Waikato force, passed through the vauous posts in the Upper Waikato last week, on a tour of inspection. The weather is remarkably five.