STANLEY'S GENEROSITY.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2203, 19 May 1891, Page 4

STANLEY'S GENEROSITY.

!•• Is this a Yankee.yarn P, An American paper ..says .that Jdrj .Henry \M. Stanley is /about to make a most magnificent gift to the cause of humanity. He intends to obey jthe Divine command to sell all thy goods and give to the poor; His manager, Major J. M. Bond; announces that ithe great explorer has to to General Poo'th, of the Salvation, Army, the .gifts he : hasreceived fiom the crowned—heads .and others, Ithe proceeds to be used in furthering ithe cause of the poor, in, London. These! gifts ' constitute one of the most superb collections of the kind in ithe world, and are ' Valued : - ; at brer £IOO,OOO. Almost every' prince in Asia l and besides educational and geograshical societies all over jthe wbrldV have evinced tneir admiration for the deliverer of equatorial Africa by ooatly gifts. Queen .Victoria baa been especially generous,, iarid many of the most valuable .articles in | the collection were given'by hoc. Alljthe testimonials of princely appreciation • Mr Stanley will devote to the noble cause of bearing light into " Darkest England" as he bore it into." Darkest Africa." It is not improbable that; the articles will sell for fou,r ojfive times their value, thus bringing into General Booth's control over £400,000. !