HOKIANGA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6564, 30 November 1882, Page 6

HOKIANGA.

A tiARHiAC-:-: was solemnize; ':•• r- n:W----ncsc.-.v last, tiie 1.-.-.h. bv the Kev. \V. Rimiart. M.A. The harpv e arle were 1 Mr. A. H. Ta-.lor. of Auckland, and Miss Marv Louisa, second dau -at. r of S. '.V. Von >:u:-mer. R.M. The ceremony was Pufornied in the little church. 011 the i.:!l. and l.!-.e dresses o: the bride and bri iesir.aids Were much, admired. Aft.r tn.e breakfast the young couple immediately left ::: the s.s. an invitation ball was given bv Mr. and Mrs. Vou Stunner in tiie Public rial', where a very enjoyaile evening was spent. The guests numbered over eighty. Precisely at twelve supper was announced, to '•'.i.-.-h cne and all repaired. Much satisfa.ti n was arrangements and t'ae bounteous lihoralitv. In travelling through some flecks c-i t'vv.rum-ut land this week, acc-)fnp:iriied tv a friend, much surprise was felt that such land, and th> re is no better in the colony, was not occupied by settlers. Here we kave 3. splendid market lor farm produce cf all kinds, vet not even the smallest supt.lv ic grown in the district. The question "naturally arises, why does such a state of things exist here? The answer invariably is, that the piasent population are all too busily engaged in the timber trade to attend tc agriculture, and, furthermore, that the attention of outsiders, in sheer ignorance of the value of our land, is not drawn towards the district. Consequently all our supplies come, via Auckland and the Mauukau. from diii'ercut parts of the colony. Forty years ago. and for several consecutive years, shiploads of wheat were exported to Sydney from Hokianga—wheat that fetched a higher price than that from Adelaide. We may conclude, therefore, that tiie rand is still capable of reproducing crops, ic, at the present day fully equal to those which were formerly obtained.— [Own Corres;--"'u.-eiit, November tltl.J