Niagara is about four miles from Waikawa, on the river of that name, and forms part of the electoral district of Mataura. It is in the Toetoes riding of the county of Southland. At the census of 1901, the village had a population of eighty-seven. The local public school has an average attendance of thirty-five, and the settlement has a butcher's shop, a store, a post office and a public library. Sawmilling is the chief local industry, but farming is also carried on to some extent. The Presbyterian Home Missionary at Waikawa holds services at Niagara from time to time.

Mccolgan, James , Farmer, Niagara. Mr McColgan holds about 800 acres of land in the district, mostly bush, and he also acts as yard manager at Messrs Murdoch and Roff's sawmill, Niagara. Mr McColgan was born in 1856, at Donagh, County Donegal, Ireland, where he was educated. He was employed in a soft goods warehouse in Belfast, before coming to the Bluff in 1874, by the ship “Kerry Castle.” He followed general work for several years, but about 1886 he started a sawmill in the Waikawa district, and conducted it for eight years before settling at Niagara. Mr McColgan is a member of the Niagara Library Committee.