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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1312, 21 April 1883, Page 2

The Salvation Army in England acquired more property in 1882 than in all the previous seventeen yean of its history pnt to* gether. The sum total was £36,000, but this by no means represents all the receipts, as the offerings of the *■ common people ’’ st their meetings are nuw said to be at the rate of £88,870 a year, besides which there io • large profit from publication. The army now uses 605 buildings, and has 442 corps or permanent stations, with 1007 officers entirely engaged in the work. In the balance-sheet of the lost annual report by General William Booth there is £13,670 under the head of “general spiritual fund",- £12,451 for “ sick and wounded” and £22,778 for bonding. Mr Scarrow, of Sandon, has informed ns RanniteiK-i Advocate that he has discovered a perfect cure for blight on fruit trees. It is very simple and is as follows : —Take the castor oil used as machine oil and rub over the branches of the trees, it not only kills the blight, but prevents the tree from being attacked by it. Mr Scarrow says that he has not got a single tree iu his garden now that is affected with blight, whilst his neighbours trees are more or less affected. Whilst killing the blight on the trees affected by the pest and preserving the sound ones from being attacked, the oil also promotes very nv terially the growtii of trees, and causes them to bear more fruit than they otherwise would. Mr Scarrow, delighted with the success of the experiment, determined to carry it further, so bcioic riding on his favorite steed Vie o ’ -r day he rubbed castor oil all ffl over the animal, and the result was that a fly ’ never came near it during the day.