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Kumara Times, Issue 873, 18 July 1879, Page 4

Every day makes it more apparent that the expenditure on account of the Zulu war will be something enormous. South Africa is being ransacked for horses and mules, and two steamers are being dispatched to Monte Video to bring across 800 of the latter animals. Upwards of 300 ox waggons, each of which carries three tons, are in regular employment, at the rate of LBO a month. Men are being enlisted and equipped wherever possible at the rate of 5s per diem and everything found, and there must be some 1200 of this expensive cavalry uow serving with the army in the field. The waste of commissariat stores is very great, and one of the principal causes of the bad health of the troops is said to be the smell arising from the bags of rotting grain which have been put on the ground at infinite trouble and expense. Altogether the original estimate for the war, viz., ten millions, in already spoken of as too small, and those are qualified to judge speak now of a po&isble twelve millions to be expended on the reduction of a tribe numbering at most6o,ooo men, or. in fact, at the°rate of L2OO per Zulu. The American Republican is responsible for the truth of the undermentioned : A gentleman of the new Twenty-tixth District of this country informs us that, as he wa« riding through the country, he witnessed the most novel sight of his life It was nothing more or less than a white lady ploaghing, her husband acting as the horse, mule, or steer as the case may be. He wasregtzl*riy harnssedand drawing the plough as complacently as an ox. The gentleman spoke to the woman about her teaai, and she replied that •'this was the only way she could get any work out of Elam and she would make him do what she could." The ploughed ground was Will broken up, and showed that the woman was expert in the use of the plough, and that man can be a horse when he will.