The Potteries Examiner : — 1879-10-04 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

WHAT THE WORLD SAYS.  I understand that the Victoria Cross the delay In bestowal of whiili on Lieutenant Hamilton recently murdered at Cabul was caused by some red-tape correspondence between the India Office and the Horse Guards, will be forwarded to the family of the d ceased officer at inistioeue. The Queen has perserially express .d her sympithv with his parents, whose grief is rendered none the 'less poignant by the fact that they lost another son last rear at the Cape, who was in the mounted police. Lieutenant Hamilton was a grandson of the late Sir Frederick Pollock, L.C.E. of the Exchequer, and a great-nephew of Field-Marshal Sir Frederick Pollock, who won his laurels at Cabal in 1841 too. .  Father O'Hara, a Marist father, who has been a missionary for more than twenty years in South Africa, and is thoroughly acquainted with the different dialects spoken there, is now in London, where he is organ's' ing an Irish colony to settle in Zululand. He made a point of visiting the so-called Zulus who are now performing at the Aquarium, and, after some diffieulty on the part of the manager, held a long conversation with them at one of their receptions at St. James's Hall. He declares that not a single man of them is either a native of Zululand, or even a proficient in the Zulu dialect. They are all natives of South Africa, and some of them come from the Transvaal ; but there is not a single subject of Cetewayo amongst them, and they are no more Zulus than Cornishmen are Highlanders. Who is John Dunn, the Zulu chief I bear many , people ask. John Dunn is the son of a lieutenant in the Royal Navy, who was killed by an elephant in Natal many years ago John married a half-caste woman; but when he settled in Zululand most of the chiefs by way of making him thoroughly at home, sent dough era as offerings—gifts he could not well refuse. He has, for an Englishman, therefore, rather an unusual number of wives; there aretwenty Zulu bouris in his harem, besides the half -caste and , his family already consists of ninety little Dtnns. 1 His profession for many years past has been that of "gun-running," in other words that of smuggling fireams across the frontier into Zululand, an operation he long conducted with noted, success thereby laying the foundation of his wealth. As the great Sir Garnet 'nits decreed that gun-running shall cease, he has set a thief to catch a thief, and Dunn, no &alit, will prevent everybody he can hem inin the profitable trade. I is tic role of the lord Chamberlain's ell:ce to send to th.• tfueen's jewellers for valuation all the ornaments which are found in the palace after a Court ball or concert. The day after the last State ball, a gentleman came down to the office and enquired for a diamond necklace, which his wife had loss at the ball the night before. The chief clerk assured him that 110 diamond necklace bad been found; whereupon the hushand proceeded to expatiate on the enormous sum which he had given for the necklace, with description of its various beautitl. The clerk listened in silence with di apparent sympathy, and, just us the loser we taking his leave, quietly remarked, "It is a very odd coincidence, but your necklace was of the same . .  .„, pattern as a paste ornament winch has been found, lint which has been pronounced of no little value that it is not worth advertising." The paste necklace WM prodoeed, and it ended by the gentleman signing a receipt for it, which involved swallowing it large mouthful of humble pie after his description of the cost of it. Could a Privy Councillor, who has held high other, condescend so far?