YE OLDE ENGLISHE FAYRE.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 57, 3 January 1883, Page 2

YE OLDE ENGLISHE FAYRE.

(feom a cobbespondent.) "Ye Olde Englishe Fajre " is now the prevailing topic of excitement in Wanganui, and as I understand from the energetic manager, Mr Gibbs, it is about to make its way into Feildiag in aid of the English Church. I think, perhaps, a few remarks on the " Showe " will not be out of place. On entering the Drill Hall, one is struck by the general quaintness and picturesque beauty of the scene, for the visitor at once be- i holds what appears to be a long street in ' an old English town. Indeed one might fancy qaeself gazing down Watergate, St. i hester, or St John Street, Lichfield, during, let us say, the reign of Edward ' I [I. In the ceatre appears the May; Pole, with numerous stalls arranged down the sides o£ the street. In one corner appears "Ye Kichardsone's Showe," where the pleasure seeker, for the outlay of 6d, may behold some such thrilling tragedy as *' Vilikins and his Dinah." In another corner we cjme to the Chelsea bun-house, where besides the a hostorical" bun, one can obtain cakes, sweetmeats, bonbons, lemonade, ice, at very reasonable charges. In yet a third corner the ■" anxious inquirer" may have his or her fortune told for. a trifling sum. At one end of the hall appears the show whieh is dear to every English boy's heart, and which one has often chased , from one end of the town to the other— you know, of <JouTse, that I refer to Punch and Judy. Before I close this ' very meagre description, I must not for- . get to mention the " stocks," presided over by- the village beadle in tull costume. As your readers will soon have an opportunity of seeing it for themselves, it is quite unnecessary to go into details.