Omahu Notes.

Hastings Standard, Issue 466, 2 November 1897, Page 4

Omahu Notes.

[FKOJI OUR OWN Con respondent •] Oct. 31. Sickness is very prevalent out Lere at present and the want of a doctor in cur midst is felt. The little baby daughter of Mr and Mrs Broughton, of Ngapnke, has had to be taken to Hastings to undergo medical treatment. We all hope the little sufferer will soon be well again. Great preparations are being made at Fernhill in anticipation of the Floral Fete to be held in your City next week, and I am positive our young matrons will take a lot of rubbing out when it comes to the baby showing part of the programme, as we have some grand specimens of young babyhood out this way, and I, as a thoroughly competent judge in the matter, teel confident that some of our little ones could not, with fair play, be beaten in any part of the civilized world. There are also a number of trained pets being put through their rudiments to be in readiness for the great expected day. Most noticeable amongst the pets that are being put through their facings is a dimiuitive grey pony thai has been taken in hand by a well-known young lady who with kindness and perseverance has got the little animal as nearly perfect as possible to make it. The charming young trainer seems to be perfectly at home in every position on her barebacked steed of the desert and can make it do mostly anything but talk, Circus proprietors when they come this way will have to look to their laurels to beat-the little grey and his fair young trainer, and Fernhill is going to try its level best to bring some of the very rich prizes you are offering on the 9th November this way. Yesterday (Sunday) will be a day long remembered out here, a howling gale of wind was raging all day with blinding clouds of sand blowing, making it almost an impossibility to either walk, ride, or drive. The medical gentleman from Hastings with his guide must have had a trying experience on the hills on his way to Ohiti, as the wind must- have been blowing at a terrific rate in the gorge. The oldest natives have never seen the river so rough as it was yesterday.