LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 37, 28 September 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr. J. McAllister has received the following telegram from tlie Rev. Mr. .Dawson, 'Wellington :—“The Maine vote on prohibition was a victors'.”

At Toko last night the Rev. T Fee, wlio is at present engaged oii a lecturing tour in Taranaki in the interests of the No-License Party, delivered an address on No-License and Dominion Prohibition. In accordance with an Act of last year a new railway by-law is gazetted. )t roads: ..very person consigning goods for carriage upon a railway on behalf of two or more persons nr firms shall _ make a separate consignment note in respect of the goods of each of those persons or firms, and shall disclose on every such consignment note the person or linn on whose behalf he so consigns the said goods. Any persons who commit a breach of tins bylaw shall be liable to a line of £10.” “It does not matter how a misrepresentation is made,” stated Air Justice Chapman at the Supremo Court at Gisborne, when the question as to what constituted a misrepresentation was-raised. T remember once,” he added, “a man wanted to p;ot credit from a loan company or other people, and ho simply ordered twice as many woolpacks as he did the previous years, and the company got the idea that he had twice as many sheep as be had the previous year, when, as a matter of fact, he had none, for he had sold them, it is not a matter of how tne misrepresentation is made, or the mode of the misapprehension. If it is made with the object of getting money from another and succeeds that is misrepresentation.

Some weeks ago a well-known Ballarat resident decided to abstain from fond for a term, and to take only hot water during that time. In the first week he lost (fib in weight. In the next week the loss was 4lb, but after that is fell to about 21b weekly, and continued at that rate for the rest of his last, which iie lias just ended, after oping lorty-two days without food. Every 7 day ho drank copiously of hot water. After ho had been about three weeks without solid nourishment he expressed his intention of not eatin- nra, ne felt a desire for food. Recently ho became hungry,, and he then ended his voluntary fast, enjoying a moderate meal. 'Prior to ins abstention he had had to. be very careful as to diet, but now he takes food which previously did not agree with him. The fast was for health’s sake, and the gentleman states that lie is now in excellent health.

A recent cablegram recorded the death of Arab! Pasha, political exile and descendant of .the Prophet Mohammed. According to his own light, Arabi Pasha was a patriot of a high order. Born of Fellah parents in Lower Egypt, in 1841, he studied at Ashen, the religions university of Cairo, and joined the Egyptian army while still a youth. He had charge of a transport in the Abyssinian campaign, and was head of a military company standing for justice in 1881. In the following year he was appointed Minister for War in the Egyptian Cabinet, and in this capacity his power became very dominant. lie armed the forts of Alexandria, and they were in turn bombarded by the British fleet, the land forces being under Sir Garnet Wolseley. The English next seized the Suez Canal, and advanced westwards along the course of the Ismailia Canal, and a skirmish took place at El Magfar. Arabi Pasha’s name' will always bo associated with Tel-el-Ko-bir, and its storming and capture by the British on September 13,, 1882, for it was after this event that he surrendered, thus ending a notable revolt. Arabi was tried for treason and sentenced to death, but instead of being made to pay the full penalty was exiled to Ceylon. In 1901 he was permitted to return to his native country. He married in 1863, and had fifteen children. His political career was one of the most interesting chapters in the history of the near East during the last century.