THE WHANGAREI HEADS CONCERT.

Northern Advocate, 3 December 1887, Page 3

THE WHANGAREI HEADS CONCERT.

t : s (To*6e Editor). t the 19Ui^Qno r _fl£Jhft '- „; ; , Visitors'," in ainost fearfully and wonderfijlj.y- i . constructed letter, has taken to task the corresH ;f " spondent who furnished the report of the abo^e - con>ert. Would it be too much to ask " On'©;, r iof thb^risitors " what he means by the sen- - tence " Vulgar cusics, i.e., those who desire to impress tkeir. readers with certain views in coarse ancV Unsympathetic phraseology, had • long ago perished with their synchronal .-. period " ? Also, what is a descender *' ? Wiy ; the writer of an intelligible report shbuM be crushed under such an avalanche of jrords is more than " a fellow can undorstandy' It is refreshing to know that one writer of the Addison-cum-Jokrißonian styJ<riß so ignorant of the word "hoodlum j^^Tßut why does he say further on that the financial success of the concert was principally owing to this par:ticular "band of hoodlums " ?

l ,'6neof the Visitors" seems to think that buying a ticket to a concert entitles people to make themselves nuisances to the orderly portion of the audience. He. can scarcely expect the singers to appreciate the discordant squeaks of' those famous bladders, manipulated by a band of non-dictionary but still existent " hoodlums." It would have been in better taste if " One of the Visitors " had left the rest of our Whangarei visitors, and those who so kindly assisted us, to speak for themselves. We have no fear that tlmj will stay away because the right name w& 8 applied to a disorderly band of young people. "One of the Visitors," in his concluding remarks, is good enough to express the hope that "for the future a more sympathetic reporter will be selected to chronicle our entertainment." Sympathetic! In what direction, most synehionistic master of involved language ? Surely not in the direction of the hoodlum, or larrikin tribe. If so, we trust this hope will be unfulfilled; nevertheless, "I thereby retam that mutual relation which exists between the two communities"! Isn't it grand ?— Au revoir. Whanoabei Heads.