THE EXHIBITION CANTATA.

Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 109, 1 June 1885, Page 3

THE EXHIBITION CANTATA.

TO THB EDITOB. Sib— l did not anticipate that, in your crowded columns, you would be able to find loom for the insertion of the verse sent yon as a cantata. However, as yon did bo on Saturday, and if it is considered worthy of being set to mueio, I wonld like to Bugfest that the arrangement for thd adjurations should be as desoriptivo as possible, thus, in the pauses of that to the " bells," a momentary chime on the instruments; to the " birds," a twittering and fluttering as of

the assembled songsters. In that to " toiling man," I should consider it a musical novelty, and have a pleasing effeot, to introduce between soprano and bass, and again between bass and choir, the sonorous beat of the ringing hammers on a well-toned anvil ; suggestive of individual labour, and a forging of the greatness of a nation by industry. Teaching your editorial note to my published letter, I find that there ia no prize offered. I was under the impression that I had read something to that effeot, and regrst the miastatement. Having Baid so much, I would ank " Khan Tartar" and others to be inclined to mercy when throwing oold water on the " poetic fire" in the case of Youra, 4c, W.H.B. [The name attached to the cantata in our supplement on Saturday was misspelled Barron instead of Barrow.— Ed. E.P.] Ist June. A cable message to the Age dated London, 18th May, says :— The London Standard of this morning says that the name of the Rev. Dr. Moran, Roman Catholio Archbishop of Sydney, has been withdrawn from among the nominations for the Arohbishoprio of Dublin. This step has been taken in deference to the protests of the Irish bishops. The shareholders of the N.Z. Leather Company who reoently met at the Forester's Armß are requested to meot there again at 8 o'clock this evening. Tho plant of happiness oannot thrive withont the air of cheerfulness. The Dumb Speak. — Mr. James R. Hatcher, a respeoted citizen of Clair View, Inverell, N.B. Wales, Australia, gives the following facts, in a statement to the Daily Telegraph, of Sydney-. — I am a poor man, with eight ohildren, and I wish to tell you of my daughter, thirteen years of age. She retired one night, about four months ago, in her usual good health, but the next morning she could not speak. The doctor prescribed, and finally Baid he had no hope of her ever being able to Bpeak again. Three months after she had been taken ill we used St. Jacobs Oil— tha great pain-cure. I had used it myself for aoiatioa, with good results. Next morning we were delighted to find that, after the one application of the night before, she could talk aa well as ever, and has been able to do bo evor sinoe. We beg to acquaint you with this marvellous onre.