WIRTHS’ BIG CIRCUS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3416, 21 February 1920, Page 4

WIRTHS ’ BIG CIRCUS.

There will be excitement for the children, and entertainment. for young and old on Friday,_FeT). 27th, when the big‘ circus and manager-ie owned by Wirth Bros, Ltd._. and personally conducted by the Wirths themselves, arrives in Taihape. About 7 a.m., the special trains, two in number, will bring the huge caravanslary to town in the early morning, and what a bustle and shouting and trampling there will be as the five pondcrous elephants dnag the lumbering waggons ‘and strings of animal cages from the station to the circus ground. Almost: before one. can turn around the staff of a hundred workmen employed by the circus will have erected a. canvas ieity ‘.l their own, covering an acre of ground, with 18,000 square feet under canvas; :1 huge “big top” with tier upon tier of seats -to accommodate thousands of spectators; a great menagcrie tent to house the elephants, lions, tigers, bears, leopards, panthers, jaguars, pumas, zebras, monkcrs, seals, hyenas, and lynxes; stlabling 50 horses; an engine and dynamo, with complete electric lighting and power plant; a kitchen and mess tent; and half a dozen smaller tents, used by the circus company. In the afternoon the mena--gerie, with all its wonders hronglit ‘from foreign heathen lands. and the waste spaces of the earth, all its enthralling interest and educational value will be thrown open to the public for a small charge to see the wild ‘animals being fed. At night Will be the event of the year for the children, Laye, and for many of the “child:-en‘ of a larger growth”; for who does not love the splendid horses, and their (1=1S11i1l:," jockeys. and beautiful equestriennes; the wonderful performing elephants, as wise as most humans; HlO 1"1§i118‘ lions, snarling at their tamer, yet obeying his Will; the mar-R vollons feats of the acrobats, and the‘ drolleries of the clowns‘? The Zoo} opens from 4 to 5 p.m. ' i