DEVONPORT VILLAGE FAIR.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 44, 21 February 1905, Page 4

DEVONPORT VILLAGE FAIR.

The whole of the prepaEafciqiil foil this large and novel show 'are all "' but complete, the nineteen niaiquees ?rti tents necessary for-the various; sideshows and stalls being iioiff "irj posi" tion, aiid. the requisite an'aJigcm?n(ji for the illumination of the: JJevonpqyt ' Football Grounds, where the fair i? t» be held, will be completed tq-dijy, W>: were sufficiently far advanced so as te permit of a trial lighting 'last night, ' when the effect was found •to M \sf < feet. The ground being in » sheltered! position, and almost surrounded by- p belt of trees, makes it an idjeal spptiat such a function. The fair Afill be opened to-movrow at half-past tyro, a,nd the programaie. will include'tjie-Stroll* ing Uroupe, Giant Mai-ion<»ttes y cpniie juggling, skilful conjuring. 01d\Englis]i Punch and Judy, with its oirigiual tharacteirs and dialog Tie, tuuiKling, -Aunt. Sally, co.toanut shy, shootmg gallery, wire-walking, aoid other itetps too nur merous to "particularise. c performance in the "Olympic" Thesitre, which has been specially fitted up? for the'occasion, for to-morrow eyeniag is a mm* strel entertamiiMnt, tlie opening scene being "Evening- on tlie -vyith, Plantation Hands After TVork in'the;: Cotton Fields."' The programme yill ; include old-time melodies by a cljorus of 22 picked voices, banjo ' duets, -epon songs, ballad?, etc.