FITZGERALD BROS' NEW CIRCUS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume xxi, Issue 5055, 5 March 1900, Page 3

FITZGERALD BROS' NEW CIRCUS.

Alter an absence of over two years, this well known Company will viait Ashburton on Saturday March 10, p'ayins; here for thar, night only. This combination has always proved a prominent attraction wherever they havo payed, and on tha occasion of the present tonr we are to witness an entirely new company of artists of undoubted merit The Messrs Frz^ralrl peri >d oa!!y make a trip to England and the o>urinent in search of the beat and most startling novelties to be had, and they certainly aucce- d in their mumoos. The pr« 3 ent comply appeared Id Melbourne for a season of fourteen weeks »ed in .Sydney frr three mouths, with suece« f financially and artiaiCAlly S ucn su extended term in auch crit >o<il cities must be taken as a guarantee of the genuineßese of the »»rioQs artißtn and animal novelties and aenea ions. A telegram received yesterday fr-m Mr Dan F.t^ewld. e6*te ß that their Pioedio opening wus a tec ni one, ar.d tb" Fress 19 highly eufogiaf io in iv praiso of the present show. Not only Hhall tha public i i Vl an °PP°rtunity of feeing the lion and elephant riding a trioycle, but the more •ensafcional item of a tiger riding on horseoaok and performing many feats of eques- j tnanism. Thia ia no myth. The presß is in ! Record in stating ohab thia particular act is an amazing feat ia animal training, and reflects the highest isredib on Herr Ziph, j who iatrodnces the various animal perfor* j mai.ee-*. By the way, this will be the last occasion un which these particular aebs will be presented in New Zealand, as after the present tour they will revert to their original owner, Herr Carl Hagenbeck, who haa purchased them from the Messrs Fitzgerald for the Paris Exhibition ; and Mr Tom Fi>z herald ia ab present on the Con tinea b arranging for other novelties to replace them nex. Be.son. Amongst Ihose who will make their firat appearance in Ashburt' o are the following lady and gentlemen artists: -Mdlle Neredah Leon, a oaring eqlie trienne ; the Wuigatefeiatere, in their aerial flights; Rcm Aquinaldo, a clever Cuban contortionist; Mies Djißy Shand, the girl j clsey rider j tha CionizUla trio of KCobdts; Mdile AJaline Sarina, on the hit^htr»p(Zi; Rizzio troupe of uantominists *nd tumblem; aud the celebrated Waldrof Family, twelve in. number, who present their marble statuary, consisting of Rom in and gladiatorial posed, aided by prisnutic effects. A daring leap and double somersaults over twenty-five guns with fixed bayonets will be made by one of the com- j j»ny, and the oonoludicg item on a long and ! varied programme will be the Grand Natioual j Steeplechase, in which twenty lapy and i gentlemen riders will take part, and will

•erve to introduce the blood stock of race and Jumping horses, including the Q leeas land prize hi^h jumper, Newhaveu, lately purchased by the Messrs Fi'zjerald after saeiDg him negotiate a jump ox 6ft Bio. A splendid band ia under ti'ie able oonduoborchip of flerr yon cle Mehdea.