Omahu District.

Hastings Standard, Issue 50, 24 June 1896, Page 3

Omahu District.

—— [FKOJI Oi;u OWN CIIIIKKSI-omxkmt.] Jink 2;S. News to interest- the general reader is not to be had for love or money. Water—well if they had all we have to spare here in Western Australia the irrigators would not have much of a show to live. The N'garurora River is now high and still rising, and all the creeks that empty into it are full, so if the rain does not cease, which it has no appearance cf doing at the time of writing, we may look out for a big flood. The roads between here and your city of the plains are hi a fearful state at present. What witii the heavy traiiic 011 them and the road-makers carting black soil on to them to fill up the hollows, as L drive along it puts me greatly in mind of a favorite book called " Pilgrims Progress " that used to take well with us youngsters in days of yore when we used to read of the " Slough of Despond." If it was worse than this it must have been a hard road to travel. Our Native brethren are going in for improvements at the Pah. They have had several new houses built in the most approved European style, with brick chimneys and ovens attached, and what with their stabling and coach houses they bid fair to leave us Europeans in the shade. There is a large area now ploughed ready for cropping, but through the recent rains everything wiil be for a while at a. standstill. If we have 110 Princess Theatre here or no meetings of a Borough Council we still have a little excitement in a quiet, way to make things hum. and the following is an example : Strolling leisurely along in the vicinity of Fernhill, I was rudely awakened from my lethargic state by a number of gunshot reports and the peculiar whistling sound of small shot in close proximity —in fact far too close to be comfortable. After gaining what 1 judged to be a safe distance, and having recovered my equilibrium, curiosity overcame discretion, and I was tempted to havs a look to see who was trying to make a dead bird of yours truly. I then saw it was no meeting of anarchists or bomb-throwers. 111 fact it was only a few of our most respected residents having a little practice, and getting the range of their chokebores in readiness for the 2*)t-li, As I now close my budget it look's bad for our favorite Steeplechase meeting to-morrow.