THE SALVATION ARMY.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2321, 20 February 1892, Page 4

THE SALVATION ARMY.

London, Eeb, 16.

General Booth was entertained tit a banquet, at which there were 0000 people present. Enormous meetings have been arranged in the provinces to welcome the General.

In the course of an interview with the representative of the Globe, General Booth complained of the prejudices existing in the colonies against his scheme for the establishment of over-sea colonies, and appealed to the people of England for further monetary assistance to enable him to carry out his project to a successful issue, A plebiscite of the residents of Eastbourne gives an immense majority in opposition to the repeal of the clause preventing Salvation Army processions. Feb. 17.

General Booth, speaking Fleeter Hall, said that Australia would sow become equal to America, but it required strong Government, an infusion of morality and religion, more people who would w&rk, regular immigration, and systematic settlement of the people on the land. General Booth maintains that his oversea scheme hasprovedthatpoverty is avoidably He justified the payment of the travelling expenses incurred by his tour through the colonies. Before he decided in which colony k§ would commence operations in comnection with the over-sea scheme he said that he would confer with Sir Job** Gorst and Mr H. Chaplin, the Minister of Agriculture He stated his belief that the objections of the colonies were restricted to certain points, and that they would ultimately give Wiijr.