Wirth's Circus and Zoo.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 32, 8 February 1904, Page 2

Wirth's Circus and Zoo.

A fJ HEAT COMBINATION. Next Saturday, 18th hist., lvas been lixeid us the tlate oi' the visit of Wirth Bros.' huge united shows. The niy.o of tOte Wirth organisation is such Umt in passing through countrv districts it cannot alto ml- to play in any but the cenlres of population, and Mum its visits are brief. After (inislving a brilliant season in Auckland the combination is now making a brief tour of country districts en route to Wellington. ' The great attraction of Wirtlis' circus, apart irom flip ever popular menagerie of performing wild animals, is Ilerr IVgfl. t.lx' (ierman Hercules whose Still open clnillmge for n (est of strength Sandow a«l all oilier strong men who 'have visited Australia within the lost few vears have unused to accept, llerr I'agel is the only man in the world who wrestle* unid lilts u lion, carries an elephant and he does other similarlv Sensational fouls. Owing to the 'immense spread of canvas whirf, the erection of the time tents of Wirtlis' circus eMails, lotig'h'ly speaking about a ci'uurter of a million square foot conswlerable dilliculty will be experil wired to Hxing them all to good aj>lieniraiiwi and comfort on the only available *itQ, Poverty Flft.