LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 2059, 5 April 1883, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[new ZEALAND PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Dunedin, April 4. Intelligence has been received that two men were killed and others injured by a fall of earth at Stock and Clarke’s contract at Hindon. No other particulars are to hand at present. THE SALVATION ARMY. Dunedin, April 2. The Salvation Army opened their warfare yesterday at the barracks in the Temperance Hall. Their day services only attracted small audiences, probably owing to bad weather. Prior to the services in the hall they met in the centre of town and did some singing, which the captain accompanied with a concertina and some exhorting. There are three of the Army, Captain Gollard, Lieutenant Burford, and his wife. They have uniforms with brass buttons and collars adorned with letters, badges on their bosoms, and caps with bands with “ The Salvation Array” printed on them. They are uneducated, and speak very common-place language, talking of Salvation “ Harray ” and so forth. Lieut. Burford said he had been a costermonger in East London. They each took part in the indoor services, singing, praying, and exhorting in turn. They come without money, and have engaged the Temperance Hall for three years at £3OO a-year, trusting in the Lord’s goodness to raise up funds to pay for it. Their mission is to reach the degraded, the drunkards, and the fallen, and they will go to their homes and haunts, and lure then out to services with singing and bands of music, From Dunedin they will send out officers as these are enrolled to other centres of the colony.