ALEXANDRA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume IX, Issue 2521, 23 February 1872, Page 3

ALEXANDRA.

Sun"day ScnooL Feast. —The festival of the Sunday-school children in connection with St. Saviour's Church, came ofT with great success on Frid.iy, the 16th instant, in the Government paddock. The day was all that could be desired for the treat, the children being under the supervision of our worthy minister, the Kev. L. C. Brady, aud Mr. K. unusby, superin'endent of the Sunday-school. SubInspector Ross Watts was present, and deserves great praise for the indefatigable manner in which he carried out the arrangements. Two large tents were pitched for the comfort of the youngslcrs, as well as having t';:o large schoolroom for the spread. I must not forget the ladies of Alexandra, who are deserving of the greatest praise for having so liberally responded to the coll made last Sunday on behalf of the children's treat. The long table in the schoolroom was literally covercd with all kinds of edibles, to which the children, from all appearance, did ample justice. I unders:and that a competitive examination of the school will shortly take place, when prizes will be distributed. St. S.vioar's Churjh is finished, and is one of the neatest churches in the Waikato, and is quite an ornament (with its pretty little spire), to our settlement.

Progress or the SETTIEM EXT. —I observe several new houses have been erected unci others ar« being built in (lie business part of A'cxandrn East. These new houses, with th'-ir teuacts, consisting of two shoemakers, a saddler, and u baker, s;iOW that this townsliij) is making rapid strides to become a most important place, and will, I have no doubt, become the terminus of the projected Waikalo railway.

Waikato Railway.—-I noticed in the Weekly News, of the 10th instant, a letter signed b}' Mr. Patrick Leslie, who pens his ideas no doubt as a kind of guide for the Government, shewing them how r.ieely the lino could be taken from Xaupiri to Cambridge. I have no doubt be h:is calculated the distances very minutely. Respecting the disadvantages of t he Waipa Valley line, Air. I.eslie says the whole line will pass through private property. That is not the case, as thero is a telegraph reserve, I believe, the whole distance from here to Ngaruawahia ; very few bridges required, and for the most part a level country, and the line coming through the delta on the east bank of the Waipa River would pass through the Gnesf. district hi the Waikato, at there are thousands of acres of fertile land on each bank of the river unoccupied.—[Correspondent, Feb. 21.]