LITTLE OMAHA. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) November 6.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIII, Issue 3222, 13 November 1867, Page 3

LITTLE OMAHA. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) November 6.

The weather, which, has been so unfavourable to farming operations of late, has now changed, and we have a hot sun and wind, which is drying everything completely up ; in fact, if rain does not come soon, the crops will bs likely to suffer. A large breadth of wheat is growing and looking well, as also the potatoes : in fact all kinds of crops are promising to be as good as in any former year. A good quantity of bush is already cut, which shows the steady advancement of this district; but, as it is mostly bush, it is slow work, but nevertheless sure. A. short time ago a great attempt was made to place this district under the Highways Act, but now we are back in our usual dormant state. Although the boundaries are defined already, it is distinctly stated that the township of Leigh is exempt, and it is not possible to get sufficient voters to elect trustees and transact other business according to the Act. Shipbuilding has been stopped since the unfortunate affair of the ' Flying Cloud,' and communication between here and Auckland appears to be almost at an end. A passage to town is only got with the greatest difficulty since the stopping of the steamer, which was far from being just without giving notice to the settlers.

A Genuine Romanck or Facts — The Daily Telegraph has the following :— " Who wants a &tory forathree volumenovel,melodrame, or original poem — wild and wonderful as 'King Cophetua and tbe Beggar Maid,' or as Mr. Disraeli's 'Alroy?' Applicants may find such a tale at the Court of Morocco, in the life of the reigning Empress, who has ascended from a cottage to a throne. The Empress of Morocco, it is said, ia a native of Chaley, near Dole, in France, where she was born on the 20th of November, 1820, in a poor thatched cabane. Her name was Virgmie Lanternie. She went with her parents, in 1834, to Algeria, and the whole family were taken prisoners by the Moroccans. Her father was killed, and her mother died a short time afterwards. The captors, dazzled by the great beauty of Virginie, spared her ; and, amid a curious concurrence of circumstances, the Emperor's son fell in love with her, and made her his wife. Here is romance made to anybody s hand, and a proof of the old maxim, that fact outdoes fiction in strange incidents." A ohild's faith in hi« mother is illustrated by tbe following incident : A little boy, disputing with his sitter ou some ■übject, exolaimed, "It ia tru«, for mttheriayMO j audifiherfayi to, it is 80, if it un tso.