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Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 966, 1 December 1882, Page 2

An artist who saw Arabi in Alexandria last winter draws this sketch of his personal appearance:—“A tall, heavy-faced man, suhen. swarthy, with only a pretty clear eye ta soften the general harshness of expression, and a black moustache to hide a not particularly finely curved mouth. His legs are as unattactivo as his face. The underpinning looks too frail for the rest of the body. He is a bulky man; not pussy or Falstaflianin girth, but a broad, thick-chested fellow, built on the lobster pattern. Take him from his heavy head to his spindle legs, Arab Pashi reminds one more of a negro than of the agreeable and pleasant-faced gentleman one meets among the Arabs and Egyptians.” According to the Turkish Minister at Washington, the “ name of Arabi is not to be pronounced as Arabi nor Axaibee, but as Ara hi, with the accent on the middle syllable.” For soras nexplained reason passengers on the railways of the West Coast of this island have suddenly taken to travelling nearly all by second class instead of first. The ' first class passengers 'have |decreased in number by about four - fifths, while to second class have doubled. This applies to bolh the Taranaki and Wanganui lines extending from Foxtou to Waitara, or 166 miles of railway in all. In other parts of the colony there is a steady increase in the numbers of both classes of passengers.— Post.