TATTOOING EXTRAORDINARY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 82, 6 April 1880, Page 4

TATTOOING EXTRAORDINARY.

,Lprd Macaulay must have, had a ' ; prophetic min4 wien Tie wrote that; ever-to-be-execrated sentence about the ' arrival of ; the New Zealander among the ruins of London. It is quite clear. ; A. good d|al than Zadkiel, or; Orion, or iny-of the quacking brother- I hood. The New Zeajander will be • JMjbert , Victor .'the Erst. May hisj »ose's shadow never grow less! And' if we : do not turn the Tories out at the : next election, Lbnflon will just about ■ be in the condition which Macaulay describes by the time the youthful ; Prince's skull has been made thick j enough, by the judicioua training which j - princes have to undergo, to bear thej uneasy burden which it is destined to; carry. " ... . • The news is too. dreadful to contem-; , plate. cThe nose of the future King of; -England -has 'been tattooed by sacri-i legious middies! When the fatal; Titejllgenc^TeactiedjSandrmghain, thej panicjgtticken drew lots in| fear and trembling who should face the; "sraath7to"cbme. T^brd Napier of Mag- ; dala was the destined one Summon-; ing up the courage "which has never | 'failed him in the "hour of trial he! opened tne^dobr-7— But we must draw' & curtain ;lhe thought i^ too agonising ;| a mother's feelings must be respected.j The King of England with a blue; anchor tattooed on his nose ! ' The -Princess telegraphed to the Archbishop of Canterbury to appoint a day of fasting arid humiliation ; the Prince telegraphed to the skipper of tb,e . Bacchante to; give everyone on board six doaen with Mr "W". H. Smith's best cat, beginning with the young Prince and ending with himself. He then telegraphed to Sir William Jenner to go out to the Bacchante with all the necessary instruments for painless amputation.