ARABI HOME AGAIN.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 7 December 1901, Page 4

ARABI HOME AGAIN.

(A Special Correspondent)

The upper native classes in Cairo show great antipathy to Arab! Pasha, and a section of the native press attacks him violently but ho has not lost his popularity with the fellah. Having left Egypt as the defeated foe of England ho returns now singing her praues.

I had a long talk with him to-day before a large body of his old friends and comrades. Arald Pasha said that his relatives number 10,000 spread over large tracts of Egypt. Their representatives who welcomed him at Suez bore witness to the great reforms in Egypt. They informed him that forced labour, the courbash, extortion, and arbitary rule had all been abolished; that justice, liberty and private and public security were enjoyed by all. On the way from Suez sad thoughts of the past came over him, but the green fields extending on the right and left as far as the eye could reach made him realise the prosperity of the country and drove the sad thoughts away.

Even the attacks of the press proved to him the freedom of the Egyptians and made his heart glad.

Now ho could die in peace, seeing his heart’s wish accomplished by those who had fought against Egypt as her foes and now had become her best friends. God wished he should be the means to this end.

He praised the English rule in Ceylon and felt very grateful to the Cingalese authorities and people for their kindness.

Ho expressed the hope that the Khedive would allow him one day to visit England and pay his respects to the King and to the Duke of Cornwall and York, who had graciously brought about his return to Egypt. He would also like to thank his many other English friends.