BOSTOCK AND WOMBWELL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIX, Issue 8122, 19 April 1906, Page 6

BOSTOCK AND WOMBWELL.

CIKCUS AND MENAGERIE.

A visit to Mastorton is to bo paid next Wednesday by Bostock and Wombwell's novelty circus and menagerie, when a brief stay of two days will be made. The combination, which is at present playing to large audiences in Wellington, is said to be a very largo and extremely powerful one, ana quite different to any other circus and menagerie that has visited Mastorfcou. The menagerie comprises a very large and varied selection of animals, many of them being extremely rare and valuable, and tbe novelty circus company, which is headed by the Lukishimn Troupe of Japanese acrobats and balancers, is absolutely uuique owing to the fact that there are none of the horse aots which are usually seen at a circus. Instead of taking place in a ring tbe performance will be given on a stage at one end of the large tent around which comfortable seating accommodation is ragged. Besides the Japanese the performers are many and varied, and consist of the following turns: —The Pastor Brothers, musical grotesques; Jarvis and .Campbell, scientific and comic jugglers; Mons Menier, the human ostrich; Siemor Bertam, in his unequalled performance on an unsupported ladder; and last, but not least, Harpy Jackles and his wonderful and highly trained performing dogs. Mr Alec. Verne, tbe agent of the combination, is now in Masterton making the necessary arrangements in connection with the visit to Masterton.