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Motueka Star, Volume II, Issue 64, 25 March 1902, Page 3

The accounts in connection with the protective works lately completed at Glover s Overflow under the superviion of Mr Alfred Edwards, were duly considered and passed by the Committee set up by the Council and cheques were paid out on Saturday. The small -° f tlie ori § inal sum raised, ASOO, will be expended immediately. Owing to grave differences on matters of doctrine ” (writes the London correspondent of the Sydney Tele“General Booth’s son-in-law and daughter, Mr. Mrs Booth-Clibbon, and the brother of the former, Mr Percy Clibhorn, have resigned their connection with the Salvation Army It is understood that they have joined Dr Dowie’s Church of Zion at Chicago. Dr Dowie, who recently announced himself as the Prophet Elijah, publiclv declared recently that the Salvation Army, as well as certain other specified religious organisations, ‘ must be smashed.’ The affair has caused a great deal of personal grief to General Booth, but the General does not believe it will have any effect upon the salvation Army as a whole. Mr and Mrs-Booth-Clibborn are at present in Holland, where they have had charge of the work of the Salvation for some time. They were first attracted towards the peculiar tenets of Dr Dowie during his visit to Europe a few months ago. Finding they were not allowed to preach the tenets of the Chicago faith-healer they resigned. It is expected that they will go to America tojoin Dr Dowie at an early date. Lord Carrington has evolved a really original idea for raising the South African war wind. To The Times he writes thus .-—“Peace proposals are in the air, and South African millionaires are beginning to make more millions, but the British public has to pay for the war. I respectfully suggest that his Majesty’s Government should at once bring in an Act of Parliament, scheduling South African secuntms at. the last ‘make-up’ price of 1901, and charging a heavy ‘progresslve stamp tax on all sales above the scheduled prices. The tax should be eai-marked and reserved for the expenses of the war.” The caricaturist ot a contemporary pictorially depicts the dismay °f a Capel Court Jewish Midas, bermged and befurred, as he catches sight of the schedule of progressive duties on sales above the 1901 figure, and foots it with this ejaculations : “Gott in Himmel ! Vot injustices*! It makes vun ashamed to be an Englishmans”.