TAWHIAD AT ALEXANDRA. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1446, 8 October 1881, Page 2

TAWHIAD AT ALEXANDRA. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT .)

n»^ -w, Alexandba, October 6th. C|j^^K)wnBmK once more represents a liarelyv-^ppetoairoer, caused by the Maori king's arrival here yesterday with a number of his followers, and a body of the Thames natives on their return home from JEiikurangi. Rewi and Wahanui, the Ngatimaniopoto chiefs, are also hero. -Tawhiac'has fully -deoided'-fco' come and" reside amongst us, and ia going to plant a large acreage of potat<jbsi m a|id ibout ffrfy township. Mr J. D. 1 Hilrhal given up to Jiiw.a portionlof.hiA-pMdook.rAad.l .am informed that My R., , J}. L. Duff us, , who holds a lease 6t ihe " pah " reserve at Mangapilco, has given him the use of it. He has also from'^ve¥ntaent the race course reserve on the east side, containing. I believe, 147 aores. ''Several teatos are^ 'also already 'at' w6rk<b'n )l £lie west side'of the rivei I,'1 ,' • 'ad joining"' 'the' low'nsliip/' Tawhiao says h.e l inte,n,dB hpldjng a, large meeting here or near the settlement, the Utter, mQflji, probably,,. in t Ma.rch, or ApriJ' next, which he hope,& wilt be, a final one, ! as all difficulties will then have ceased to .exist between the two races. He is in^ close consultation with Major Mair,' who has come up.to mfeefc him, 1 Ifis'a-great pity the Major is not a permanent resident here, as of old, tp cement- the good" feeling he has .brought about between the Government arid ihe natives! ' Retrench'raenjis.all y^ry , wgll, (|( but, jp. spme opes> may, I think, be carried 'too- far for the benefit of the country. ' When Major Mairs services l were\dj^p,ensed iwith here by the Grey Government as not having " the H confidence M of .^thq,, nacres, " , wnd.orT that Government we had in Alex,a,pdra, to replace him the folio wiqg ,>,officer,si appointed and resident here, the value of whose .services are now known to have been nil to the country: — Major Te Wheoro, Government agent, £ooo' per annum ; clerk to do., £120 ; two men on policy pay, 6s per, diem eaph;, Mr "W".. H. Grace, Government agent] '£500 per annum; Mr L. Grace, assistant do,, £ ( 'ioo or £450 do., beside the agent at'Kihikihi. All these bflices' "are now fulfilled by MTajdr" Mair alone, as well as Native Commissioner for the Auckland district, where he resides. There is,a strong feeding here that the whole of the Major's time should now be devoted to the good work he, has so well commenced until its conclusion, a happy solution of the differences between the two races', has been arrived at.