Fitzgeralds' Circus

Te Aroha News, Volume XIV, Issue 2097, 26 April 1898, Page 3

Fitzgeralds' Circus

OPENING AT TE AROHA : : FRIDAY. V":,’::

For circus name 'of Fitzgerald's.,Bros is a household , word through. Australia and. New Zealand. They are, in fact, termed -the “ Barnums of Australasia.” Pluck! energy, enterprise, and daring arb the pliardcteristics of the two brothers, and these quaiifications,' backed fip by . \ along and-varied experience of, :!the req[uirment3 of /the , ’’colohial • apiusesnent' seeker, have- enabled them ( from time to i time.tq.rise- -to the highest < position: as caterers for the amuse- ■ ment of the mil 1 ion. Some little time, ago MrDan-Fitzgerald, with his head full of .big ideas and his pockets" lined' ■withmoney, left 1 Australia for another tup to Europe, and- .while there' he set himself the v task of diaooyering something that would and novelty to the colonies. This he succeeded in - doing, ' for he secured from Carl TlagenbeckV Zoological ■Circus, Hamburg, a novelty in the shape of a full grown African lion riding round an enclosed ring on .th e back of an elephant on a tricycle. This is shown at the circus, and it forms a unique and sensational act. Mr Fitzgerald also secured in'his tra!■'yelsMr George Harinston,. from Hengler’s Circus,,’ DiiSlin, a somersault and. jockey rider, and graceful lady equestriennes in the persons of Mdlle. de Blende and M,llle. Millie Dagmar. i|:With those attractions hud others' together with the educated elephant, Fitzgerald Bros have recently toured all parts of Australia with.success, and no.w they come to this colony to. give the people the" latest in circus perform, -ances. The popularity-of the brothers here was. Avidenceed in Auckland on Monday, night at the opening performance of this big show *there, every part'ef the gigantic tent being crowded in all parts, long before eight o’clock. ’ ‘ , • ..; «At an- entrance tent is Jocated the menagerie, which: consists of South' African lions, two lionesses, one born : at Adelaide Zoo, black panthers, leopards, an elephant, a monkey and its haby, the latter born in Western Australia, and a cage entitled “ The Happy Family, ” in which are located monkeys, an Australian emu, baboon, and a dog faced monkey The Auckland, papers refer to the show in terms of the warmest praise, and a* everything is to be shown at Te precisely, as it was in Aucklandhb part whatever having been left behind—it, may safely, be predicted that the one night’s season here will be largely .patronised. ...