Fitzgerald's Circus.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7718, 21 January 1905, Page 2

Fitzgerald's Circus.

To-day's Appearances.

I This huge •ambulation opens in the I (late) «xhibition grounds this after- " noon, and again in the evening. The > Stratford Post, writing of Thurs- - day night's appearanco of the big . circus and menagerie in Stratford, eays l there was a very large and ■ interested audience. The programme, opened with a grand hunting entree, in which eight liicmlyers of the , (company took part. This was i'olJ lowed by a juggling and balancing , performance by Miss Sybil llarroni, ' (who displayed such dexterity as to t win the entire approval of the audionce. Miss Ethel Ashtom gave a t remarkably clever exhibition on a , trapeze suspended near the top of . the tent, and afterwards in coniI pany with her sister,, went through u [ double trapeze act. both young ladies showing marvellous agilitv. IMiss Ethel Ashton walked with the greatest ease on the slack wire, |and w o n for herself an enthusiastic ■ ovation, Thei plitecc de resistance of the programme was, of course, the team of six Japanese wrestlers appearing for the first time in the colonies. The team is accompanied r by an umpire;, and one of their number, a nighty, wrc-stiler in his own country, wears the rice straw . belt and trappings of the chamt P'on, though he received a bad time last night at the hands of his less noted opponents. The " little brown men" conduct their bouts I with a fury that urings a finish in a wry lew seconds. The perform- ; once'was an interesting and unique' , one. J)r. Uordon|. "the modern vul- . «n, ' tossed three cwt tfum.b-bel)s , about ns though they were indiaI rubber balls, i-fc lifted wJih his ( teeth a weight of four hundred pounds white balancing on his hands ,He snapped the link's of a dog ; chain by chest expansion, and con- . eluded H's performance by carrying a . horse up a ladder. The equestrian department was, as is always the , case wilh Fitzgerald's circus, a very . attractive feature of last night's programme, which concluded with an exhibition of high jumping l,>y the horses Napoleon (T. Morgan), Malt,l by (J. Kelly), « n d Daisv (J. Jfn;her), a . r >ft lttin fence being cleared . with ease. Mr Allan Kerr, trick .•ychst, contributed a most interes- , ting and amusing ten minutes, and ,thc funny business was in the very .capable hands of Messrs Walhalla, Jones, ahd Perry.