WHANGAREI.

New Zealand Herald, Volume II, Issue 355, 31 December 1864, Page 7

WHANGAREI.

[kIIOM 01'11 OWN COUHEsrOKHKNT.] [December 21th, IRGt. An enterprising lady ha 3 at last tukca pity on lis ill our monotonous existence, and has given a series of musical entertainments at the Whangarei Hotel. Miss liedmayne, for that is her name, is well known in the Southern provinces, and her reputation will not suffer by her performances liere. 3liss liedmayne gave three perfoimances, all o which, in spite of the weather, were tolerably well attended; and she purposes giving another 10-night, which it is to be hoped may prove as well attended as those which preceded it. Perhaps her example may induce others to pay us a visit and enliven us in the ensuing summer.. Those parties who trusted to the vessels to bring them the good things ivitli which they intended to indulge themselves this Christinas, will be sadly disappointed. JO very day for the last week we have been expecting to sue some vessel or other arrive ; but, alas, for the uncertainty of everything earthly, intelligence came from another souice that one of our regular (!-) traders had gone to Tauranga, and the other would not leave Auckland till after Christmas. J3ut still there was balm in Gilead—the steamer surely would leave on the 23rd, it was advertised to do to in the papers, and there could not be any delay there certainly. Vain delusion ! The tide has long since turned, and no 'Wonga Wonga' is in sight. In many cases plum puddings will have 110 plums in them to-morrow. The other day, at the Whangarei Heads, a case of assault was tried before 11. It. Aubrey, l'"«i., 101. Ilenrv Faulkverre was chargcd by Nicholas Murphy with violently assaulting him, but as his testimony was rather weakened by the witnesses called, the defendant was merely bound ovsr to keep the pe.ice toward Her Majesty's subjects for the space of six months.