The Archive · 1905

With Fitzgerald's Circus

To the unfeigned delight of a largo crowd of waiting children, and the rol of elders perhaps more seriously anti the L.-C. 8. Choysang cam Ewo Wharf about half-past four on Sunday afternoon, after exactly a week's run from Hongkong, and experiencing on the way the full force of the typhoon. 'The principal arrivals by the Choysang wor the members of Messrs, Fitzgerald Bros' Circus, and as the boat. put into its berth, amid musical strains from the baud, and the bulky form of the elephant was spied on the lower deck, a shout of exaltation -went up from the children. Mr. Elephant, in his travelling box, cast a lazy eye and a busy trunk about as though'he had relished the trip rather than otherwise, and in fact the dogs, horses, monkeys, and other animals who were subsequently to be soon, fastened, kennelled, or caged, all over the vessel, seemed to have weathered the typhoon witl the experience of seasoned travellers, while the. ladies and gentlemen of the ring were all in the happiest of spirits, glad to touch" terra firma once again, but by no means disconcerted by their sea-adventures.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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