SHE ROUTED THE SAVAGES.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2139, 29 January 1880, Page 3

SHE ROUTED THE SAVAGES.

A company of Zulus—an impi, as the war correspondent would say—has come to signal grief in Dublin. Encouraged, no doubt, by the .sympathising lone of the anti-Engli.sk press, these hardy warriors invaded the UJundi of Ireland, and at one of the great public kraals, displayed themselves, their ox-hide shield and their terrible assegais to all persons possessed of the desirable curiosity and the necessary shilling. Business becoming dull, some of the friendly Zulus were sent out in a carriage by their enterprising manager to beat up a public, even as Little Nell was paraded through the town by Airs Jarley. Recoining thirsty they stopped like more Rrilions at a beerseller’s kraal and were practically comparing the stout of Dublin with the laager of their country when along came an old; woman,’. 1 whose, son had been killed at the rout of the Twentyfourth Regiment. This simple minded woman gathered an apron full of stones from the new macadamised roadway, and as soon as the Zulu impi debouched from the kraal she began bombarding them with rocks pouring in a musketry tire of course at the same time with Hibernian vigor. The Zulu shields thus tested proved not to be made of ox hide lough as iron, but of mere printed canvas and in spite of the frightful assegais which, when on exhibition, the Zulus brandished so menacingly, they were useless. The old woman routed the savages and put them to ignominious Tight, soundly confused and roundly cursed. If she only had been with the prince imperial!