Salvation Army Items

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 45, 13 October 1891, Page 3

Salvation Army Items

■ , ; -;-. ,» :. . — rrr-. General Booth will arrive in Auckland from Sydney direct on the 20th. instant. A deputation -of AVesleyan f ministers * waited 'upon Gferieral Booth at the Intercolonial Headquarters in Melbourne, to bid liini weicoin'e' and -God speed.' ."" : When interviewedjby. a correspondent of the Sydney-, J^aily .Telegraph on the subject of ,ttie . over-sea colony, General Booth said : ih" Arrangements with respect" to 5 tliie colony' will have to be made in a few daysV • I've got au offer from the Cape, a remarkable, -offer, . for nothing, which^cdiunojli be; trifled ,>yith. I, was ali in favor of the Cape liritil the last few daj's, .bufc.latelj'i I . mnsfc say, I have wavere.d a. little. This is a yery different country^' There must be a great future before this, nation, ' : must * be, if th e peopl e who liave got it in- hand know auything abpnt it, and how to manage it, and I suppose, they- dp." • The General .kl^so stated, witlrregard to the finances of the A rm ,3'' .everything is niade self supporting as far as possible. The receipt*; for. the -work- -in Great Cri?. tain, for local expenses, b vjetiseeing, . an^cl mauiigement, itiiiount to between- i'50,000 • and>^sd^)9D frbui nil soureesj#rTho income of the' r druiy Go:nes|fb a niillipn a year.- /T}io".;epsfc.iof.Mimna^eip,enfc, clerks, nnd soon, ii more than rnet by the trade profits,,--,.--. 1 ...££i. ;^.. -. ■ThetGhri^tclmrcpllilinisters' ; Association decided tp^present an address of We^ .op his arrival ■■■■'m)^f:ci0 s '''' r^c- i '' v ,;' ''-}■■■ ■ f v General" lJboth r? haS Meonseiited to dedicate 'tlie rieAyj SalVat'ion Tortress howiii ' course "of •' -erection .in IJowling ; strect,.^Dnliedi^- ■^Vi&K-.r&A 7/ .:- /?■;.; -^s^tc"tiri» on W\h ndvicel 6f Mr JusliCw 1 (he.; Salvationists ; qfEercd to comiifomiseufiie/disi^Ue :at by ngrinfingr .to ; - conOne , their; lnarciing nnd Imnd-piajinjt to ;i' ccr.fciih section^of the .toJVji. ■ ,Xliis cbihpromise .-..was ' re jectt'd 'iiy ilie' dounci!, and 'lieific"e ? tlfe battle wili haye^fo be foWgbt^oilft^to the bit 1 or **. rnd : ' -Tlie "English T; ncnispttpdrs severflj'cehSare -;ti»e action of ilie; town Council. -..,/*. , } r j.' '. ; i. .']>' ;