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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1158, 25 September 1882, Page 2

Mr Cameron was again very unfortunate in not being able to ship the whole of his cargo of sheep for Auckland per Ringarooma yesterday. Half the cargo was sent off at 3 a.m., and the other half was loaded up, and Messrs. Kennedy and Bennett made an effort to take them out to the steamer; but the sea had got up, and it had come on te blow so hard, that they judged it uhsafe to proceed, and so returned to the wharf and unloaded. Mr Cameron will be a heavy loser by the roughness of the weather. The “Birmingham Daily Post" describe* the performance at the village of Roualench, Worcestershire, of an entertainment called an oratorio, the idea of which was suggested to the rector, Mr Chafy, by the Ober-Am* mergau Fussion Play. The performance consisted of a aeries of “Tableaux vivauts " illustrating the early life of Our Lord, and the performers who are 52 in number are all parishoners. Their ages vary from the 82 years of the impersonator of the aged Anna in the Temple to the four years of one of the little ones worapipping the Cross. The rector himself took the part of Choragus. The tableaux were for the moat part the wellknown incidents relating to the Incarnation, but there were purely allogorical— the vision of all nations worshipping the Cross, Jesus wounding his hands and feet in worship of Joseph, and one entitled “The key to our Lord’s work on Earth.’’ One tableau was legendary—“ The Vision on the Capitoline Hill." The most striking tableaux, the "Birmingham Daily Post ” says, were the expulsion from Paradise, the Presentation in the . * Temple, the Vision of the Wise Men, and the Flight into Egypt. Effective, if not absolutely gorgeous, were the dresses and gifts of the Magi. The twelfth tableau 11lustrated John the Baptist running with a bowl of water to the assistance of the child Jesus, who has typically wounded his hands and feet at work, while Joseph plies his saw, and, in the background, Elizabeth is busy with her distaff, and Mary contemplates the rich presents from the East. The parts of the ungel Gabriel, the venerable Anna, and, in the concluding tableau, the child Jesus, were beautifully rendered. A selection of music was played during the representation, including “O rest in the Lord," from the Elijah; “Comfort ye;” and “O thou that tellest,” from the Messiah. The sixth representation of the play was given on Saturday.