ALEXANDRA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume II, Issue 533, 28 July 1865, Page 6

ALEXANDRA.

[i-'ltOM OCK OWN COEBESI'OXDENT.] July 23. The Government, steamer Mouton arrived early yesterday evening, bringing up the men of tho 2nd Waikato Regiment who have been stationed at Harapipi. They, together with the majority of the detachment irom Papakura, hare been struck off pay. The tramway from the saw mill will probably be opened for traffic next week. The rails are already laid down the whole way—a distance of about two miles. The bush presents the appearance of a young thriving settlement, and gives promise of plenty of employment for some time to come. One of the serious obstacles which retard tho progress of this settlement and give gromid for predominance to the sister township'of Hamilton is the want of a public reading-room, or somo largo building where the settlers may meet together and pass away plea-antlv a leisure hour. I say " want," for although the Government have crected a largo commodious building on the cast side of the river to be used as a regimental reading room and school-room, this place is, and lias been for several months past, inhabited by an oflicer and his family, belonging to tho regiment. That otTicer has an acre available close to the camp; his farm section is not two miles distant, and yet he has not commenced to erect a house yet, but lives comfortably in a bui ding built for the men themselves, totally regardless oftho incovenience which it caueeß theiu, so long as he has a roof for himself and family. I draw your attention to this o-i behalf of tho men themselves, and the welfare of the settlement, and a«k, how can we fair!} 1 cry out against the dealings of the Government with us, when we pass over in silence such a gross instance of partiality as this ? Tho paragraph in tho Gazette oftho 11th, notifying that the Government have cancelled the conditions of military settlement in Waikato, published in August, 1863, has yiven rise to great dnctitision up here. Considerable anxiety exists among the settlers as to their ultimate fate [The notico in the Gazette simply cancels tho offer made by the Government to those willing to enlist under the regulations hitherto existing, and in no way refers to the regiments or companies already formed. The construction put upon it by a cotemporary, whose editor would bo better employed in doctoring cattle than in meddli g with political questions which ho does not understand, litis caused needless alarm and anxiety.—En. N. Z. H ]