LOCAL OPPOSITION TO COLE’S CIRCUS.
Several of our local celebrities, feeling aggrieved at so important a township as ■Temuka being treated with contempt by the proprietor of the above circus, have started in opposition One distinguished foreign gentleman has succeeded to perfection in acquiring the art of alighting from the back of his fiery steed, without the assistance of his bands., He gave his first
perilous performance before a select audience on the morning of the anniversary, his trainer was so astonished that he, involuntarily swallowed a “ Seagerette” in the convulsive throes of his admiration As an instance of the superior training of the horses, when another member of the troupe was travelling, as agent in advance, (in company with the medical adviser), he was precipitated into the air with the velocity of a meteor, he alighted on his back, but recovering his feet with the agility of a practiced acrobat, was rapidly ip pursuit of his steed, which, in the meantime., had made a Bolt-on the road
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Temuka Leader, Issue 330, 18 December 1880, Page 2
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168LOCAL OPPOSITION TO COLE’S CIRCUS. Temuka Leader, Issue 330, 18 December 1880, Page 2
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