A Circus In Quarantine.
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) : Auckland, Thursday. The Mayor telegraphed 3 r este.rday the facts of the case to Government relative ti Fryer's -Circus,' detained m pursuance of an Order m Council absolutely prohibiting the importation of livt> stock from the United States. The. Mayor represented the ruin which the prohibition would bring upon the proprietors of the circus animals. To this representation the -following reply was received :— " Doeply regret total impossibility- of pdi'mjtting circus animals to land on New Zealand 50i1. .'.-They must, be: kept afloat till taken out. of New Zealand waters.. /Faith must be: kept with the 'Australian Colonies, or their --markets will close to our stock. P. A. BucKLEy-" The order is tantamount to a confiscation 6E the circus Goinpany r a property; 'The Coinpaiiy do . nothing. £600 was paid. for .the passages down,' and the Coiupam are now completely 1 -' ?tucic; be" •ing unable to perform h"ere, : or to"Vci,c>n or go back. T!ie proprietors had" ""no ineana of acquainting themselves v be»fore r hand with the existence of' such'. 'a law. The captain of the steamer was ignorant Of it. ,;,:-■■ •:. ' ■•■■■■■'■ -'^ , .
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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1464, 25 September 1885, Page 3
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187A Circus In Quarantine. Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1464, 25 September 1885, Page 3
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