NIAGARA

Otago Witness, Issue 2604, 10 February 1904, Page 31

NIAGARA

Febiuary 1.-Happy the land that has no history! Our tranquil valley is m this fortui.ato cabe, for our histoiy still lies in the .™ i6 V i Ut somethm S remarkable ls always going to happen— m a month or two One, two <uid perhaps thiee, sawmills are to bb elected here— in a month or two day CL£Uly factory ls to be some

Ihe hign road is to be gravelled thioughout, and the railway extended— m a year or two i'nc steamer is to come right up to the towrsnip, the telegraph line to be brought m— som~ dry or other.

Those who want to study Mr Chamberlain's fiscal scheme, and* love the quiet that prevails here, are to have their ears deafened — and in a month or two— by the ringing of telephone bella and the whizzing of many saws. The one solid fact is that Mr Robson's mill is hard at work, and has plenty of flax, foe more than a niont'i oj two.

For the pie^ent, however, these projects only exist in the imagination of the more sanguine, and the placid Waikawa. still flows as leisurely as ever between its silcnit banks, down to an empty harbour, past an abandoned whaif and a decaying township, and into the busy world of waters.

National Scholarships — I have just heard that one of the two national scholarships allotted to Southland has been won by Philip Wilcf, a pupil of the Kiagaia Public School. Tins may give a fillip to the attendance.