SUNDAY-SCHOOL ENTERTAINMENT AT HAMILTON.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 2025, 30 June 1885, Page 2

SUNDAY- SCHOOL ENTERTAINMENT AT HAMILTON.

A vkh\ enjoyable cnteitaminent in Connection with >S. Peter « Sunday-school, was given in tlie Oddfellow V Hail, Hamilton, 1 i^t evening, <iud atti acted a numcious audience. The programme opened with " Mrs Jarley's Wax-works," a upecies of rntcrtnininent winch seems to bo \ery popul.ir in this part of the world just now. The figures (of which, perhap.s, them wero too many for tho Hize of the utagc), wero represented by the pupils of the nchool and thnr friend*, and gre.it credit is due to them, not only for the Huccessful way in which they simulated "wax tiggcrs," as Artemus Ward has it, but for the appropriateness and, in many cases the beauty of their several costumes. Amongst the pel nonages historical, mythical, and fictitious repieHontcd, weio "Bnttania, ' with helmet and tiidont complete ; " John Hull,' "Hcctia," — both of which weie adinuahle— "Krin," "Cainbiu" (with a voiy Had tia\o»ty of tiie remarkable C.irdiganshire hat— by-tin* way, why should Cardigan be always privileged to repicxrnt Wains ?) "(^uoen Kli/abetJi " and "Amy Kolwut " (from IvMiilwoith), "Tho Jil.vck Jkunswickcr's Fiirowfll," "Boulogne Fmher (Jiil, ' "Father Christmas ' ; " Little Bo Peep " l{f)inan Peasant (Jirl, "Robinson Crusoe and Inn man Friday ; Queen Titania and Bottom the Weaver, (from "A Midsummer Night's* Dicam'' and many others, including a lovely group of fairies in Titamai trxin, Hailor boy« attendants on the " I'iide of the Ocean." Mr* JarloyV dencriptive lecture. w.w very good, and ehcitrd coiiHiderable merriment from the juvenile member* of the Kiidienco who tiinroughly enjoyed this poi tii in of the performnncu. Tho Hocond |)«rt, conHistcd nf n charade entitled " Cindrrelhi. ' The characters wero exceptionally well filled by a number of young Udies and gentlemen, whono efforts drew forth o\prcsHions of delight not only from the younger but from the elder npectaton«. The co.stumes were without exception protty and appiopri.ite. At intervals .several musical and liteiaiy selections were contributed by lady and gentleman amateurs, and altogether the entertain' ment was of a most nntisfnctory character.