THE KAITANGATA RELIEF FUND FETE.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1583, 17 March 1879, Page 2

THE KAITANGATA RELIEF FUND FETE.

Englishmen arc not apt to throw off their obeli of reserve, but when they do, apparently it; is with a vengeance. Anyone who might June passed the theatre Bhortly before noon today would have been quite convinced of: the truth of this remark. G-ravo and reverend Council men might have been seer rußhing violently about clad in p** j the centuries, and leading mMo^ntfl wifch blackened faces *<>;;„ as common a 8 black . hemes. Ihe ttMfc of t he procession for the cnc I*6 ground was mads from Gloucester r sfwel at 12 o'clock, with most commendable punctuality. Tho profession formed up as follows. Mounted man in armour. Band. Tho Mayor and officers of City Council, Councillors, ex Councillors, &c. Firn Brigade. Tho Soagor Dramatic Company. Oddfellow. Mcpbistojiheles and Satellites. Foraicrs. Druids. King of Pain. Members of tho H.A.C.B. Society. Members of the Muff Cricket Match Association* Mr Hnlbert inade a most efficient Marshall in chain armour, with Mr Alport as trumpeter in ordinary. The procession passed along Colombo street, High street, Cashel street, and so to the Hagley Oak Cricket ground, where tbe stumps for the Muff Cricket Match wero pitched. Here, also, were a number of refreshment booths and places of amusement in large numbers. The principal attraction was a canvas theatre, where was performed the thrilling tragedy of "Ruganlino, the Relontlets, or the Wandering Warlock of the Ghastly Gorge." The parts were taken by Messrs Hill, Stark, Utting, Searle, Seager, Hart, Miss Hill, and Mrs Seale, and were sufficiently thrilling. Other excitements were the show containing the two-legged foal and the eightlogged lamb ; Miss Andrews' fortune-telling tent; Mr McOleary's plate spinning entertainment; Mr Seager's corps de ballet, as performing the maypole dance ; a dwarf of sixteen inches high ; and Professor Scott's omnium gatherum. A very largo number of people visited tho ground, and the weather was very agreeable, though slightly dull.