LATE GENERAL BOOTH.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1526, 23 August 1912, Page 5

LATE GENERAL BOOTH.

MESSAGE FROM THE KING* By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright '; London, August 21. In connection with General Booth's death, hundreds of telegrams have been received fi'oni all parts of tho world. .Newspapers of all shades of opinion pay remarkable tributes to tho GonprM. Some liken his work to the Oxford movement. The King telegraphed as follows to Mr. Bramwell Booth i— "Tho nation has lost ft great organiser and the poor a whole-hearted, sincere friend. Wo can only in the future realise the' good he wrought his fellow-creaturesj to-day there is universal rflOufning, 111 which we join." It is stated that General' Booth never received a Single penny of Salvation Army funds; a few friends privately provided for all his wants. 1 The body is lying in state. The burial jrlll take place next week at Abney Park. ARMY'S NEW HEAD, MR. BRAMWELL BOOTH. London, August 21. It is Officially announced that Mr. Bramwell Booth succeeds his father as . nead of the Salvation Army. ■ (Rec. August 22, 9.15 p.m.) London,. August 22. The Salvation AfmyVeolieitoishas opened tho Sealed, packet entrusted to him twenty-two years ago by General Booth, in which Mr, Bramwell Booth was appointed to succeed - to tho head of the Army. AUSTRALIAN TRIBUTES. " O ' Sydney, August 22. 'There are many tributes in tho press and by public men concerning the lato Jeneral Booth.. ... • . — l MEW,ZEALAND'S MESSAGE. : TRIBUTES IN PARLIAMENT. Tn Parliament yesterday, Mr. H. J. H. Dkey (Taranaki) asked the Prima Ministor, without notice, whether his attention had been drawn to the lamented death sf. that great social reformer, General Bboth, and If lie would convey to tho head of the : Salvation Army in London an expression of the pfoi'our.d sorrow felt in the Dominion at the event, Tho Prime Minister stated that on learning of' the death of General Booth he had at 6nce dispatched the following cablegram to Mr. Bramwell' Booth, at London"Desire to tender, <011 behalf of-Government and peoplo of New Zealand, • sincere and heartfelt condolences to Salvation Army In , their irreparable loss." Mr. :Massey said that the world had lost one of its greatest .men by the death of General Booth. Ho was a philanthropist, a great organiser, and a wonderful man in the truest sohse of the word. By his piety, energy, and example, he had lifted thousands ftom a life of degradation to be happy and useful citizens. The Prime Minister said, in conclusion, that he sincerely hoped that the great institution which General Booth had founded would be able to carry on. Sir Joseph. Ward (Awarua) cordially 'endorsed what tho Prime Minister had 'said. History would show that General Booth had been one of 'the most marvellous men in any ago.