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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XI, Issue 46, 14 March 1884, Page 27

Mr. James O' Kelly, M.P. for Eoscommon, has gone to the Soudan as a special correspondent. He was once an officer in the French Army. Afterward, when correspondent of theiV.F. Herald, he was imprisoned as a revolutionist in Cuba. A clear-sighted Englishman, Col. Barnaby, who knows Asia well, says that " The danger does not consist in the present army of the Mabdi ; but in the feeling of the Egyptians, of the Mohammedan world, of men ground down by European usurers in Egypt, ground down by taxes on salt in Hindostan, and who catch at the False Prophet even as a drowning man catches at a straw. Bach day this movement is growing throughout the East," — Pilot,