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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 886, 10 September 1879, Page 2

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(from "the world.*') ; ' The manner m which sbciety has received the news of the' poorPrittcd Imperial's death shows hdw r wise :'is ! the (serai.), rule which prevents our royal ' princes from serving out of the kingdom. If a prince* were to behave like an ordji-j, nary general, and not go into the' thick of the fight, he, would be. sneered a$ forhis caution ; if, on the other handl he were, to. court danger and bo killed,., sbciety would clamor for a court-martial? on the conimander-ih-oliief who -allowed him to lose his life, and on the officers and men who had neglected to lay down theirs for him.' ! '• ! •: ! > The poor Empress, I fear, will hardly

ever get ovilr, the shock of her brave boy's death. The Queen tried to entice her to Windsojr, and the Duchess of Roxburgh to induce her to go to Scotland : but she .clings to Chilsehurst, and will hardly" believe m the Prince Imperial's death until she gazes on his cold features. Heaven help her m her sorrow 1 If her friends permit her to indulge that. morbid \^ish, they will have much to answer for. „. The Empress jpf the French, before Sir Garnet Wtilseley started for the" Cape,- made him coma and see. her, and spoke to him long aiid earnestly about herßon. "I do not like his being bo far off," she said, "and. in that climate; The climate is all that I am afraid of ; but Ido not like his being away. You must promise me that you ; will send him home directly you get oufc,the?ej"; r * A week or, two ago. a young gentleman whose friends live near Ohil&ehurst arrived from the Oape. It was intimated to the Empress that if she cared to see him he would wait, upon her. She was delighted, and listened with, wrapt atj tention to all ho had to tell. When he described the assegai used by all the Kaffir and Zulu tribes she expressed a wish to see ope. They were m the hall, and were forth- with produced. v The Empress all but., fainted at the, sight of them,and burst into, a'flood of tears. "Do not think me weak," slip said ; i "but until I saw these terriblfe weapons I never realised the danger ray son ran.". At that very moment he had been killed' by assegai wounds, seventeen m number. The Prince of Wales never did a wiser, more popular, or more politic thing than when he lately received the 350 Irish tenant-farmers, who, led /by Capoi) Bagot, having come Over for the Agricultural Show, have .-"doing the sights of London . under the ' experienced guidance of Lord ' Powerscourt and Captain King-Harman. Previous to their starting Canon Bagot had telegraphed that of all the sights m London the most grateful to the /farmers would be that of the Princess of Wales : ; and at 1 o'clock on Saturday they entered the garden at Marlborough House, where they were welcomed by, their, hoat and hostess, with whom were their children and the Duke and Duchess of Oannaught. The Prince addressed some kindly words to ' them: ; ; they were duly "refreshed }", but, as one of them remarked, ''It is not the eating and drinking, but the, welcome that pleases üb;" They 1 were, indeed, thoroughly "deligh« ted ; and m addition to the rounds of cheering, one enthusiast called out, "I hope we shall soon see yoti all m Ireland," a sentiment which was received with shouts of applause. .7