The Major Minstrels.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 322, 9 July 1889, Page 3

The Major Minstrels.

A CAPITAL SKIT. The foilawing very cleverly written skit appears iu the Wellington Evening Press of Thursday:— LOOK OUT 1 Reappsabancb of THE MAJOR MINSTRELS. Science and Song. The Talking Fish. Mirth and Marvels. The Ballancing Brothers, Music and Melodrama. Richardson’s Show. (Under the Patronage of His Excellency the Governor, Lady Onslow, and all the nobility and gentry of Wellington, at HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE (Fabuamsst House), Will appear (by command), THE MA J O-.B MINSTRELS AND MINISTERIAL MARIONETTES. Manager ~ .. .. Sir H. Atkinson Mr Johnson .. Hon, G. F, Richardson Tambourine .. .. .. Mr Taylor Sambo .. • • Mr Taiwhanga Bones ~ .. Mr John Kerr Sir Harry Atkinson (the Major) io thanking the public, of Wellington for past favors bags to draw the attention of friends and patrons to ths following feast of fun and fancy, which baa been prepared at Vast expense, but with a due regard to economy, for their delectation, As the Theatre has been bespoken by the Ballancing Brothers and Wanganui Warblers, the season will positively close in a few nights, PbogbaMMS—- ■ Part I. 1. Financial Clog Dance.—The Harbor Board Break down.—Messrs Samuel, Atkinson, and Marchant, 2. Trio.—• The Restful Recess. ’ —Messrs Mitchelron, Fergus, and Fisher. ‘ When an end has come to caucus aud committee, When the session of our sufferings is up. We love to steal away to Melbourne's city, And put our modest fiver on the Cup. ’ 3. Scientific-Lecture.—‘The Evolution of Elections.'—Hon, T. Hislop. With the aid of a blackboard, an abacus, a calculating boy, two sworn actuaries, and a case of surgical instruments, the hon, gent, will demonstrate how any intelligent person can be taught to think lie understands the Hare system in five lessons, 4. Pathetic Recitation,—'Tho Parting' (ad dressed to the Hou. T. Fergus), Mr G Fisher. ‘ When we two parted In silence and tears, Half broken-hearted To sever for years, Pale grew thy cheek and cold, Colder thy kiss. Truly that hour foretold Sorrow to this, ’ 5. Comio Reading.—Mark Twain on the ‘ Cham-moyce.'- Mr John Karr. (If encored, the performer will sing tho touching old song, ‘ Wuat the wild waves are sayin’ of.) 6. Song.—‘ I know a Bank.'—Mr J, M, Verrail (by special request).

Interval ten minutes, during which Mr T. Mackenzie will entertain the audience by eating on the stage an entire Californian thistle, while a Freetrade member of the Cabinet will swallow in lightning succession a volume of political economy, a string of platitudes, and a large number of former professions, 1. 1 The Commissioner’s Trio ’—Messrs McKerrow, Maxwell, and Hannay Three independent fellows wa, From Ministerial clutches free, Drawing our screws, out quarlerlee, Laughing at members’ wry grimaces, Snapping our fingers in their faces — Three merry men are we. From throe Commissioners two may go— One will remain and and run the show ; That’s Master Maxwell, ho I ho | ho | Three jolly dogs are we, 2. Grand Aorobatio-Auatomie-Architectural. Herculean Feat by the Ballancing Brothers, who amid deafening applause will proceed to oreat their great Political Pyramid. 3. Air—‘o, Richard, toi qua j'aime’— Messrs Richard J. Seldon and Richard J. Reeves. 4. Song, comic— l The Big Braes Band Hon. T. Fergus “ For I feel so very happy when the band begins to play, When the Volunteers in royal style turn cut and blaze away, When the ahoutingjboys of Waka’.ipU cry ‘ Hip, hip, hip. Icoray I' 0. listen to the niissio of the band, 11 а. The proprietor of Richardson’s Show will then exhibit bih collection of rare and unique curiasijka obtained st a vast and unparallJ.ld expense from the most remote districts of New- Zealand, and comprising— . (1) A Settler found on his land (3) A road—completed (5) A sheep Inspector—nt work (4) A Land Grant—issued (u) A Paetoral Tenant—solvent (6) A Babbit Fence—erected б. ‘ The Reduction Chorus ’ (95 strong)— Members House of Representatives. ' They’ve got us on the list, They've got ns on the list; And we never shall be missed, • We never shall be missed. 7. Song— l Cheap Money ' —Mr J. Verrail— On a rail in the Chamber a little tomtit Bang money, cheap money, cheap money, And said I to him ‘ Dickey Bird, why do you sit, Singing money, cheap money, cheap money,' •Is U weakness of intellect, birdie!' I cried, ‘ Or a Diet of Worms in your little inside?’ With a shake ef hie little poor head he replied, ' Tia money, cheap money, cheap money.' 3, The Te Boot! Contortionists (Messrs Atkinson, 'lfiteheleonAnd Fergus) will then give their unheard-of display of extraordinary flexibility, and will exhibit poSMyjktsri'gues cf the most singular and unltnajiuabio description, The whjliie to conclude with an OTAGO FREE FIGHT, "TJ.B —Ambulance may be ordered for 11 p.m. A qualified surgeon will be in attendance. -

!0n subsequent nights tho last item will be replaced with the eer<aming farce, ‘‘TO MELBOURNE AND BACK FOR , FIVE POUNDS/’ i In which the leading parts will be sustained I by Messrs Fergus, Mitehelson, and Fisher.