BARNUMS AUSTRALIAN BLACKS. Auckland, April 2.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 253, 7 April 1888, Page 4

BARNUMS AUSTRALIAN BLACKS. Auckland, April 2.

Fivf yeai- ago Mr R. A. C unningham brought t'\vaj uoni Australia «in<! touU In the L nitetl htates \i.'i Auckland a compan} ot fifteen Au-ualun blacks uud' i engag< - merit to the gitat and onh liamum toi addition to his woild& Fan arid ihppochorne. Since then the blacks ha\e been pietty well all o\er the woild, .md h\ the mail steamer which mi iiw;d 1 hi- ni'H ning Mr Cunningham is in iont< to Au^tialid ioi the puiponool .seeuimn; another tioupc oi black*- winch will then be lcinloic-cd with pui ties of Maoi ii and Samoan-. Iho ougmal \entuie pro\ed a. comj)lctc and convincing success. Alter lomin& lm ten months in tho United St' tes and Canada, the black 6 - mcio taken to Euiopo and pcrloimed ioi a month in the (Ji>^tal Palace, London, a month in Belgium, a yeai in Ueimany, a month in Holland, two mont.hrin Fiance, a month in Livcipool, two months in Ireland, two month's in Scotland, sit weeks in Denmaik, a month in Sweden, two weeks m iNotway, two weeks m Finland, three monthss in Jlushia. a month in 'i'uikey, three Uayn in Oieece, three da\s in bieily, two monthb in Italy, and two months in Austria. Everywhere crowds gathered to bee the Australian aborigines, tatooed cannibal black tiackuro, and boomerang throwers go through their dances and whul their boomeiangs. They performed l)elore the Sal tan of Turkey, and were interviewed by the Royalties of e\cry country ot Europe. HU ot the aborigines died duiina the to»r, and the nine remaining were shipped home bv the Orient (Jo. "a steamer in June last. At the last moment they were unwilling to leave Mr Cunningham and shed tears ficoly, being only consoled by his promise to return tor them again. Mr Cunningham while abroad publt-hed a small descriptive book to sell ab his exhibitions. It contains certihcates ii-om the Anthropological Societies of Biu-elfe, Berlin andFarirf to the genuineness ot the blacks as specimensof the lowest type ot the Australian race.