Agriculture & Horticulture Shows
Births Deaths Marriages
Celebration
Clarkes Reflections
County Council
Destruction
Employment
Events Outside Omaha
Finance
Government, Laws & Regulations
Horticulture
Hunting and Fishing
Land & Buildings
Legal
Medical
Meetings
Post Office & Mail
Roading
School
Shipping
Social Events
Travel
Village Affairs
Weather
Agriculture & Horticulture Shows
Agricultural Show
- Preparation in the Little Omaha Hall : 28 Feb 1889
- Meeting of Show Subscribers : 07 Nov 1889
- Prizes awarded : 04 Mar 1890
- To elect a Show Committee : 05 Apr 1890
- Port Albert Show : 26 Feb 1891
- Show held in the Hall : 04 Mar 1891
- Matakana Show : 16 Feb 1892
- Show day : 24 Feb 1892
- Omaha and Pakiri Show : 5 Feb 1927
Show Committee
- Election of committee members : 20 Mar 1889
- Meeting of the committee : 13 Apr 1889
- To consider amalgamating Agriculture and Horticult : 11 May 1889
- Meeting to revise shedule for the Show : 13 Dec 1890
- Meeting of the Show Committee : 27 Dec 1890
- Show committee meeting in evening : 17 Jan 1891
- Live Stock entries to the Committee : 25 Feb 1891
- Fixing prizes for the Show : 28 Feb 1891
- Meeting to pay Show Prizes : 14 Mar 1891
- Elected onto Committee and appointed Secretary : 28 Mar 1891
- Meeting in the Hall : 25 Apr 1891
- Meeting of the committee : 20 Feb 1892
- Meeting to pay the prizes : 16 Mar 1892
- Annual meeting of subscribers to the Show : 09 Apr 1892
- Meeting of Show Committee : 14 May 1892
- Meeting : 07 Dec 1892
Births Deaths Marriages
Baptism
Birthdays mentioned
- Tom Wyatt : 18 Dec 1865
- Joe Wyatt : 11 Mar 1866
- Tom Wyatt : 18 Dec 1866
- Joe : 22 Mar 1867
- Minnie Clarke : 20 May 1888
- Charles Clarke : 15 Aug 1888
- Willie Clarke : 05 Apr 1889
- Jane Clarke : 13 Nov 1889
- Willie Pratt : 12 Mar 1890
- Grandmamas (Mary Ann Wyatt, aged 72) : 20 Aug 1891
- His youngest son, Willie, 9th birthday : 05 Apr 1892
- Clarkes mentions his own birthday : 15 Aug 1892
- His sons (Henry) birthday : 09 Nov 1892
- Johns (Clarkes son) birthday he is 21. : 11 Jan 1893
- Willies birthday, 10 years old : 05 Apr 1893
Births
- Jane Wyatt : 12 Mar 1865
- Maggie was delivered of a son (J C E Wyatt) : 31 Jul 1891
- Maud confined of a son (Horace William Pratt) : 15 Nov 1892
- Mrs Charles Wyatt was confined of a Son : 10 Jan 1893
Burials
- Mrs Joseph Greenwood buried in cemetery : 16 Oct 1890
- Mrs Greenwood buried. Clarke read service at graveside : 07 Dec 1891
- Mr Gravatt, died 16th, buried at Pakiri : 18 Feb 1892
- Mr A Dunnings 3 year old girl was buried : 02 Mar 1892
- Ernest Roderick McCarthy was buried in the Cemetery : 09 Jun 1892
- Alister Kempt buried in the Cemetery : 12 Nov 1892
Confirmation
Deaths
- Mrs Kemp : 01 Jul 1865
- Campbell : 30 May 1866
- Mary Elizabeth Clarke : 01 Aug 1866
- Dr Campbell : 08 Sep 1888
- Mrs hills, sister of Mrs Walter : 10 Apr 1889
- Mr Mirehouse : 05 Aug 1889
- Mr Anderson of Matakana : 17 Nov 1889
- Miss Jessie Kempt : 19 Nov 1889
- Captain Sommerville : 26 Feb 1890
- Mr Wright : 03 Jun 1890
- Charlie Bond : 23 Jun 1890
- Mrs Williams : 11 Jul 1890
- Mrs Joseph Greenwood : 14 Oct 1890
- Mrs Came of Matakana : 19 Feb 1891
- Old Mrs Greenwood : 05 Dec 1891
- Sarah Parker, Charles eldest sister. At Netherfield. Died 27 Jan 1892, aged 65 : 30 Mar 1892
- Mrs Britton : 27 Apr 1892
- Nelson. Somebody associated with Charlie & Maggie (?) : 30 May 1892
- Ernest McCarthy died at Little Barrier : 07 Jun 1892
- old Mrs Darrochs death in Auckland : 11 Dec 1892
Marriages
- Alex McKenzie & Miss Kemp : 15 May 1866
- Hector Greenwood & Miss McLeod : 30 Aug 1866
- Mr & Mrs John Wyatt Snr Golden Wedding : 08 Sep 1889
- Mr James Brown to Miss Gravatt : 12 Aug 1890
- Mr Christie & Miss Ashton : 13 Aug 1890
- Mr James Brown to Miss Gravatt : 14 Aug 1890
- Charlie Wyatt & Maggie Clark : 18 Sep 1890
- Arthur Wright & Martha Greenwood : 08 Apr 1891
- Duncan Knaggs & Miss Rollinson were married : 25 May 1891
- John Greenwood & Hannah Birdsall were married : 04 Jun 1891
- Maud and Willie Pratt were married : 14 Mar 1892
- Old Mr & Mrs Wyatt celebrate 52 yrs marriage : 08 Sep 1892
- Mr Alex Matheson and Miss Haskell : 30 Mar 1893
- Mr James Darroch & Miss Maria Birdsall were married : 01 May 1893
Celebration
Auckland Jubilee Festivities
Clarkes Reflections
- New years day : 01 Jan 1865
- Reflections during walk to Goat Island : 29 Jan 1865
- Presence and absence of man: 28 Feb1865
- A beautiful morning: 2 Apr 1865
- Living alone : 26 Nov 1865
- New years day : 01 Jan 1866
- New years day : 01 Jan 1867
- Working the land : 21 Apr 1867
County Council
Election
Destruction
Fire
Employment
Employing labour
- Stopped employing Tom & Joe Wyatt : 25 Nov 1865
- Wages : 01 Jan 1867
- Thomas Smith : 11 Mar 1867
- Half Holiday : 22 Mar 1867
- Contract labour : 21 Apr 1867
- Contract for bush work : 22 Jul 1867
- Henry going to work for Ellis Dyer : 21 Jun 1891
Events Outside Omaha
Gold at Thames
Finance
House keeping
Investments
Government, Laws & Regulations
General Assembly Election
Licensing Committee
- Meeting of the committee : 27 Apr 1888
- Local Option vote election : 26 May 1888
- Petitioning against Pub License : 23 May 1889
- Accommodation License granted : 05 Jun 1889
- Local Option Poll taken : 25 Apr 1891
Horticulture
Caterpillars
Hunting and Fishing
Goat hunting
Land & Buildings
Building the Whare
Church
Property Purchase
- Arranging to see Red Kenneth’s land : 19 Apr 1866
- Inspecting the new land and agreement to buy : 21 Apr 1866
- Signing agreement to purchase new land : 23 Apr 1866
- Takes possession of Red Kenneth’s house : 21 Jun 1866
Property Tax return
Store
Surveying
Legal
Court cases
- Nicholson/Maimburg – abusive language : 31 Mar 1888
- Summoned witnesses against James Greenwood : 07 Jan 1891
- James Greenwood guilty of forgery : 18 Mar 1891
- Henry as a witness in Walter vs Miller : 30 Oct 1891
- An affiliation case viz Martha Selwood v Sydney Fordham : 19 Aug 1892
- James Greenwood returned home. Released from Jail : 04 Jun 1893
Powers of Attorney
Serving Notice
Appointments
Medical
Doctor
Injuries
Nursing
Sickness
- Clarke unwell : 17 Feb 1865
- Tommy & Clarke with diarrhoea : 17 Dec 1866
- Clarkes rhumatism : 30 Jun 1889
- Clarke unwell : 18 May 1890
- Clarke unwell : 28 May 1890
- R. Matheson recovering from measles : 25 Jun 1893
Whooping Cough
Hospital
Meetings
Church & School
- Proposal to establish Church & School : 08 May 1866
- Proposal to establish Church & School : 31 May 1866
Fruit Growers & Farmers Club
- Inaugural meeting : 20 Aug 1892
- Meeting : 29 Oct 1892
- meeting : 26 Nov 1892
- Meeting in Hall : 10 Dec 1892
- Meeting in the Hall : 22 Apr 1893
- Meeting of the Farmers Association : 27 May 1893
Highways Act
Library
Ratepayers
- Meeting postponed : 02 May 1891
- Annual meeting of Ratepayers : 05 Sep 1891
- Annual householders meeting : 25 Apr 1892
- Annual meeting. Clarke resigns : 27 Aug 1892
- Meeting to establish a Post Office & Telephone in Leigh : 24 Dec 1892
Road Board
- Road Board Elected : 23 Apr 1889
- Road Board Elected : 08 Oct 1889
- Road Board Elected : 05 May 1890
- Meeting of Road Board in Hall : 21 Mar 1891
- Election for new members : 05 May 1891
- Appointment of officers for the Board : 16 May 1891
- Meeting of Road Board : 15 Aug 1891
- Meeting : 05 Sep 1891
- Election on the Road Board : 17 Sep 1892
School Committee
- Election of School Committee : 23 Apr 1888
- Meeting : 04 May 1888
- Meeting : 25 May 1888
- Wrote to Education Board : 29 May 1888
- Meeting : 15 Jun 1888
- Roofing teachers house : 31 Aug 1888
- Inspection of roof of teachers residence : 31 Aug 1888
- Meeting : 21 Dec 1888
- Election of School Committee : 23 Apr 1889
- School committee appoints a sewing teacher : 06 Feb 1891
- School Committee elections held in the school : 27 Apr 1891
- Annual Meeting of Householders to elect a School Committee : 24 Apr 1893
Unknown
Post Office & Mail
Establish Post Office
- Petition to establish a Post Office : 13 Jun 1867
- Approval for Telephone line to Omaha : 11 Jul 1893
Letters from C S Clarke
- To Mr Dalton, Mr Parkes, Tom & Aunt Anne : 16 Aug 1865
- To Aunt Anne : 20 Sep 1867
- To Messrs Earle & Montgomery ordering goods : 18 Apr 1888
- To Fanny : 12 May 1888
- To John, included a newspaper : 10 Jul 1888
- To Jane, Tom & Henry included a newspaper : 19 Apr 1889
- To Tom, Clarkes brother : 04 Sep 1889
- To John, Clarkes brother : 01 Nov 1889
- To Sarah, Fanny & Tom : 18 Apr 1890
- To John & Tom and Mr Haseldon : 10 Jun 1890
- Wrote to his brother, John, in England : 12 May 1891
- Letter to C & H ordering supplies : 09 Jul 1891
- Letter to Sarah, Clarkes sister : 22 Mar 1892
- Letter and photographs to Clarkes sister Fanny in England : 14 Jun 1892
- Letter to Jane, Clarkes sister in England : 12 Jul 1892
- Rent for school reserve : 22 Nov 1892
- letter to Clarkes brother, John : 18 Apr 1893
- wrote to the Secretary of Education Reserves : 20 Apr 1893
- To Mr Haselden. Unable to attend Lay Reader’s Conference : 15 May 1893
Letters to C S Clarke
- from Aunt Anne : 03 Aug 1865
- from Aunt Anne and includes a book : 25 Aug 1865
- from Aunt Anne : 15 Dec 1865
- from Aunt Anne and includes a book : 04 Jan 1866
- from Janie, his sister in England : 06 Feb 1866
- from Fanny & Tom including a book : 20 Feb 1866
- from Mr Combes & from Sarah : 08 Mar 1866
- from Janie & from Aunt Anne : 02 Nov 1866
- from Henry, his brother in England : 03 Jan 1867
- from Sarah and from John : 11 Dec 1888
- from my Fanny also Newspapers from Tom : 29 Apr 1890
- From Henry, Charles brother, in England : 30 Mar 1892
- Letter from Mr Parkes, his brother in law : 16 Aug 1892
- Letter from Clarkes nephew Ernest Latham : 20 Sep 1892
Roading
New road
New roads
School
School Inspection
- of the Little Omaha School. Minnie & Jane passed : 14 Oct 1890
- Mr Goodwin inspected school : 11 Nov 1891
- School inspection : 14 Nov 1892
Teacher’s residence
Shipping
Capsize
First voyage
Immigrant ship
Launching
Shipwreck
Vessel seized
Vessels take shelter
Social Events
Concert
- Matakana Sunday School : 12 Mar 1889
- Local Hall in aid of Cricket : 11 Jun 1889
- An entertainment at Matakana : 26 Dec 1890
- Opening of the New Hall with Concert & Dance : 12 Apr 1892
Dance
- In the local Hall : 12 Dec 1889
- Dacres Claim in aid of Church : 06 Jun 1890
- Social in Hall put on by the young people : 28 Oct 1890
- Dance at Dacres Claim : 29 Dec 1890
- Dance in the Hall : 01 Jan 1891
- Races and dance at Pakiri : 16 Jan 1891
- Dance in honour of Duncan Knaggs wedding : 26 May 1891
- Dance in local Hall, proceeds to the Library : 23 Jun 1891
- Dance at Matakana : 20 Oct 1891
- Dance in aid of Cricket Club : 16 Dec 1891
- Wind up of monthly dance : 10 May 1892
- Dance in Hall : 21 Dec 1892
Lectures in local Hall
- History of Christianity Lecture : 27 Jun 1890
- Mr Haselden gave lecture in Hall on Enoch Arden : 19 Jan 1891
- Life of Christ lecture by Revd Haselden : 11 Mar 1892
- A reading of Dickens’ Christmas Carol : 01 May 1893
Party
- Clarke puts on a party : 19 May 1891
- The girls hold a children’s party for Jane’s birthday : 30 Nov 1889
- Surprise 84th birthday party : 15 Aug 1927
Picnics
- News Years Day : 01 Jan 1889
- Goat Island beach : 11 Mar 1889
- News Years Day : 01 Jan 1890
- New Year picnic at Dacres Claim : 02 Jan 1891
- At Goat Island beach : 27 Mar 1891
- Picnic at Goat Island beach, dance in evening : 26 Dec 1891
- At Dacres Claim. New years day picnic & Cricket : 01 Jan 1892
- Goat Island Beach : 26 Dec 1892
- Dacres Claim picnic : 09 Jan 1893
Soiree
- Big Omaha School in aid of Charles Bond : 26 Nov 1889
- Soiree at Pakiri to raise funds : 09 Dec 1892
- Clarke went to a Soiree at Pakiri : 28 Apr 1893
- Soiree in the Hall : 07 Jul 1893
Sports
- Caledonian sports at Matakana : 17 Mar 1891
- At Matakana. Cricket match : 28 Dec 1891
- Cricket match at the Maori Hall : 02 Apr 1892
Visits
- From Mr Goldie : 14 Nov 1866
- John Smiths place at Ti Point : 21 Jul 1888
- Goat Island visit : 28 Dec 1889
- Visit from Ernest Latham, Clarkes great nephew : 10 Feb 1892
Wedding
Travel
Auckland to Omaha
Big Omaha to Auckland
- By the Stag : 13 Apr 1866
- By the Stag : 25 Apr 1866
- By the Stag : 05 Aug 1866
- By the Mahurangi : 15 Jan 1867
Little Omaha to Auckland
- By the Stag : 09 Nov 1866
- By sea : 01 May 1867
- By the Rose Casey : 06 Feb 1889
- By horseback : 29 Apr 1889
- By horseback : 24 Feb 1890
- By the Rose Casey : 28 May 1890
Matakana to Auckland
Omaha to Auckland
Omaha to Kaipara Flats
Omaha to Pakiri
Village Affairs
Hotel
Residents
- Mr & Mrs Harvey came up to reside again : 29 Nov 1892
- Mr & Mrs Jas Young are going to live at the Kawau : 05 Apr 1893
Weather
Gales & Storms
- Gale damages Mrs Porters House : 09 Mar 1865
- Gale causes ships to seek shelter : 30 Jun 1865
- Great sea in harbour, damage to boat : 31 Mar 1866
- Hurricane winds : 26 Jun 1866
- Heavy seas : 05 Jun 1888
- Fruit tree damage from gales : 02 Feb 1889
- South east gales : 01 Jun 1889
- Gales from South east : 29 Jul 1889
- Continuous rain with gale winds : 07 Apr 1890