ARABI PASHA AND THE FALSE PROPHET.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1970, 21 February 1885, Page 2

ARABI PASHA AND THE FALSE PROPHET.

The Constantinople correspondent of tlio Morning Post lins had an opportunity of talking with a gentleman who recently arrived at CVjlon, and who during the List few months liad many and continuous oppoi tn in ties of teeing and confei ring with Arabi I'aalia. This gentleman paid : — " The Mctoiy of the Madhi would cause no Miipnse whatever to Arabi Pasha, who over and over again repeated to me that his inlliK nee was very grfat, and that England ought to he prepaied to sou htm inarch some day or other on Cairo." Aialn Pasha said that nothing had shuck him so much as the complete i'juoiance of Europeans as to the power of Mohammedanism. What Europeans were pleaded to call fanaticism was a spii it of self-sacrifice and devotion, combined with courage and organisation which must make Europe tren.ble. It was that sentirrcnt, and not his pei6onal ambition, which had made him in the space of a few works master of the si tuition in Ecypt. His name had become popular all over the Mohammedan uoild ; and an a proof of this Ai-.ibi Pasha showed piles of volumes which during his exile in Ceylon had been filled by the most influential personages in India who still continue going to Ceylon, as on a prilgt image, to confer w ith the pi omotcr of the Egyptian rebellion and write their names and words expressing hope in a speedy triumph in books which aie purposely kept in the house occupied by Arabi Ever since his on ival in Ceylon Arabi Pasha expressed the opinion that the Mahdi would triumph, as he knew better than Eiuopentu appeared to do the spirit of the population, whose dread of being overpowered by Christian nations is indescribable.

The usual Wrslej. in ser\ ices at Himilton, to mo n \v, are a«l\« Uised elsewhere. Mr Harbor is the preacher tor the day. l rown land's, as per schedule in another column, at R-iglan and Wbanßape will be- sold at the Crown Lands Office, Auckland, on the 25th March. Iho secretary of the Hamilton Cemeteries Trust makes an important announcement in another part of this issue. We direct special attention to the new advertisement of Air R. W. Sargent, Duke street, Cambridge, who ha* just received an attortment of Rotheram * watches, direct from the manufactory, and made to his order. Mothers Don'i Know.— How miny children arc punished for being uncouth, wi'ftil, and in different to instructions or reward siinph because they arc out of health! An intelligent lady s.nd of a child of this kind : " Mother ilon'tknow that she should give the little one moderate doses of Hop Bitters for two or three weeks, and the child would be all a parent coald desire." Look for.