ZULUS IN DUBLIN.

Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1260, 27 July 1880, Page 3

ZUL US IN D UBLIN.

A company of Zulus — (he imj)i } as the war correspondent would say — has come to singular grief in Dublin. Encouraged no doubt by the sympathizing tone of the anti- English Press, these hardy warriors invaded the Ulundi of Ireland, and at one of the great public kraals displayed themselves, their ox -hide shields, and their assegais to all persons of the desirable curiosity and the neceusary 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 Mrs. Jarfey. Becoming thirsty they stopped like mere Britons at a beer seller's kraal, and were practically comparing the stout of Dublin with the lager of their native country, when along came an old woman whose son had been killed at the rout of 24th RegimeDt. This simpla-minded mother gathered an apronf ull of stones from the newly-macadamised roadway, and as soon as the impi debouched from the kraal she began bombarding them with rocks, pouring in a musketry fire of curses at the same time with Hibernian vigour. The Zulu shields t.has tested proved not to be made of ox-hide tough as iron, but of mere painted canvass, and in spite of the frightful assegais which, when on exhibition, the Zulus brandished so menacingly they were useless. The old woman routed the eavages, and put them to ignominious flight, soundly contused and roundly cursed.