GREAT WORLD CIRCUS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume IV, Issue 1133, 2 July 1867, Page 4

GREAT WORLD CIRCUS.

This popular scene of equestrian, acrobatic, and other wonders was again crowded in every part last evening. Indeed it almost seems that th d longer this magnificent troupe of clever adepts i.i all the resources of the modern hippodrome remain among us, the more are their efforts in catering for the amusement of the public appreciated. Last evening, in accordance with the announcement in the bills, there was almost an entire change of programme, arid to witness.the entertainments varied nightly in accordance with the popular taste for variety, one would suppose that the resources of this company .were inexhaustible. Of the first portion of the programme we can only say that it was, as usual, of a firstclass ■>.character, ; but of the last iwe intend to speak more fully. On this occasion was pro-

duced, for the first time in Auckland, the laughable equestrian drama of "The Steeplechase or Harvest Home." It is said that av certain man was recommended as a certain euro for a bit of hypochondriasis to gar and spend half-an-.hour in the company of Joe Grimaldi, and certainly if any of our readers should be unfortunately troubled with such depression of spirits or fits of melancholy, we recommend theni to throw physic to the dogs and merely see Mr. Cooke as Dennis O'Callaghan O'ShaUaghan O'Brallaghan M'Murphy, mounted on an animal with ears as long as the rider's name, and Ms friend, Michael M'Farlin M'Flinn M'Clantv M'Ginnis (Mr. Tom Bird), and if the individual comes away uncured we will present him with agross of Holloway's pills. We have seen specimens of the frolicking, fighting, coat-traib'ng, whiskey-loving Irishman in all the glory of a pattern or faction fight, but if any two individuals ever held the mirror up to nature it was Messrs. Cooke and Bird. When Mr. Murphy makes his appearance, mounted on an animal which h<sdesignates " the father of all the rabbits," witiLMr. McGrinnis on Shanks's pony, the scene isenough to make a stoic laugh till the tearsjourse down his cheeks. " Suppose you came'O a haystack," says the worthy McGinnis, ' how would you get him over it ? " " Fair, rou gomach, I'd make him ate his way .hrough it," promptly replies the rider, Mr. Slurphy,_ par excellence, an Irish "gintlenan. * with a natural inclination for knocking )ne down, out of pure " fiindship." The3rpgU.e, tOO, of is ItraVSoBD, o»i& usb the make up. In the steeplechase the scene was unusually " exciting, and .'Madame innereau showed the way over the leaps in iplendid style, followed by the well-known jockeyffiahoney, who, it will be remembered, was pubicly presented with a whip by the iNathan Troupe. To-night will be the grand fashionable light, his Excellency the Governor having signi- - led his intention of honouring the Circus witll iis presence.