HAHAPIPI.

New Zealand Herald, Volume IV, Issue 990, 16 January 1867, Page 5

HAHAPIPI.

(fbom our own coeeespondekt.) January 12. Since my last communication the weather has been in a very unsettled state, and very unfavourable to all harvest work. I cannot help thinking, and all the other inhabitants of the settlement are of the same opinion, that there is a good deal of underhand work going on in regard to putting men on pay in the various military settlements, and the affair is not managed as it should be at all. Nearly 60 men are placed on pay at Alexandra, and the large amount of three at this poßt. If they are put on on account of danger from the rebels, certainly this is a far more dangerous post than Alexandra; if, on the other hand, it is for the good of the' settlement, three men is not a fair proportion ; but no doubt it is the same as the roal making, a •one-Bided affair in sense than one, arid it iB not the first instance of this settlement' being put on one side to favour another, because there ig an officer on pay that takes sufficient interest in the welfare of the P'ace (or his own) to look after it i »nd the men, who have done the moat for the country, as usual obtain the least reward.

T e man Gleeson, charged with breaking into the Btore nt Te Rori, was brought up before Mr. Mainwaring, R.M., on Tuesday, the Bth, at Alexandra, and remanded until the 22nd. There was another charge against him for breaking into a house near Ohaupa, since then he has made his escape from the guardroom at Alexandra,'and is now at large. ' No doubt he will endeavour to make' his way down to Auckland, and try to obtain his crown grant, which is now out; if to, the Auckland police should look out for hiin.' His name is Michael Josenh Qleeson, formerly of the 2nd iiegimput, W.M.