ZULUS IN DUBLIN

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VII, Issue 1070, 16 July 1880, Page 2

ZULUS IN DUBLIN

• , : A company qfiZulus-— dii'impi, <asfthe war copre^pondent would say— has come to singulargrief •in Dublin. Encouraged no. di}ubk,by the sympathising tone of 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 assegms" to all- persons of. 'the desirable curiosity'and the "necessary shilling: : Business becoming dull some of ! the " friendly Zulus " were sent out in a ca.roafee.ijy: their enterprising managei -; to beat up a public, even as Little !Ne'li was paraded through the town, by Mrs. Jarley. Becoming thirsty they stopped like mere Britons at a beer seller's kraal, and were practically comparing the stout r of. Dublin with the . lager of their tiative'country, when along- came an old woman whose son h!id been killed at the rout of 24ch Regiment. This simple-minded mother gathered an apronfull of stones from the newlymacadamised 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 Z,hlu shields thus 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 braridshed so ineniicingly they were useless. .The old\yeniau routed the savages, a.ud put • t^eni to 'ignominious flight-soundly contused and roundly cursed. - - '