A PROPHECY FULFILLED.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2602, 16 March 1889, Page 2 (Supplement)

A PROPHECY FULFILLED.

Major General Mjtkokd in his "Journey East from Lahore to Liverpool " contrives, says the Times, to introduce an anecdote which has never been completely related before. It is known to many that in the earlier days of the Sikb religion two of the sons of one of the chief Gurus were perfidiously put to death by the Mussulmans at Sirhind. The bereaved father, in his anguish, cursed the Mussulmans, and predicted that " their power should be destroyed by a nation from beyond the sea, who would scatter the bricks of Sirhind from the Sutlej to the Indus.'' The first part- of the predic tion was deemed to have been fulfilled by the capture of Delhi and the removal of the King from his titular throne, but the second part—i.e., that relating to the bricks of Sirhind—remained, apparently unperformed. It is true that our Sikh soldiers in passing through Sirhind were wont each man to take a brick or two to throw on the road. Still this could not hardly be considered as a satisfactory accomplishment of the curse. At length in 1868, when the railway was being pushed on northward from Delhi, the runs of Sirhind were utilised as ballast, which was used all the way up to Attock on the ludus.