TATTOOING EXTRAORDINARY.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4561, 10 June 1889, Page 3

TATTOOING EXTRAORDINARY.

Much amusement has beon caused to newspapor readers by the repudiation from an AnglO'Cbineße paper of an interview with a colebrated tattooer resident m Hong Kong. who ia said to make £1200 a-year by his calling, and who is so careful of hia artistic reputation that he thinks it necessary to announce by a placard outside hia shop that "I do Dot business when fuddled." tie boosts among bis cionts an English prineo and an English peer whom he was a month m tattooing, and on whoso trunk and limbs he executed a aeries of historical picturea at an expense of £100. There is i;reat curiosity tojidentify tbe peer m question. Hitherto, remarks tho Argus London correspondent, it was supposed that Lord Charles JieresEord was the only member of the British aristocracy at] all as elaborately tatooed aa that ; and it cannot be he, because the vast panorama with which Uia Lordship ia adorned was tho work of his late ChineßO servant, " Tom Fat," a man w'io, possessing every other human virtue except that of keeping accurate racing accounts, was haled to tho law Borne years ago by his sorrowing master, and has long ago disappeared from the Bceno. Lord Charles Boresford'e great corporeal panorama consiat* of a fox hunt, and includes representations of tho field, the master, the hunlsmnn, two whips, 30 couple of hounds, and a portion of the fox. It 13 done serpent fashion, and it is necessary to roll the pationt over acverul times before the full beauties of tho work can be grasped. It has alwaya been regarded as the greatest pictorial triumph of the kind now on earth. But it haa yet to be compared with tho £100 job of the Hongkong artist.