THE SALVATION ARMY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3923, 26 September 1891, Page 2

THE SALVATION ARMY.

General Booth proposes to open up Western Australia to the Salvation Artsy, and possibly to start operations there in connection with the Darkest England Scheme. The proposed new International Headquar'.ers in London will embrace Halls to hold 1200, 3000, 5000, and 10,000 people, and also a Salvation Army hotel, restaurant, and boardingkouse. General Booth has undertaken to sweep the streets of all the homeless poor before next winter, and to this end he asks for the casual wards, which are at present empty, and for the services of the police to drive the people in, so thai upon payment of n small charge they can have food, warmth, and shelter. l f they have no money, the General would provide three or four hours work for them, ao that they could earn sufficient for a night's lodging. The General is preparing to provide the people of England with good wholesome food at fourpence a pound. It is to be something that looks like and tastes like coffee.

A bed of valuable clay has been discovered on the Salvation Army farm at Hadleigh, Essex, and the manufacture of bricks, tiles, drain pipes, and all sorts of terra cotta goods is to be commenced. Ten thousand tons of London dust to be delivered on the farm has been contracted for, from which everything useful will be extracted.

Two thousand people sleep in the Salvation Shelters in London every every night. A* Home for friendless boys, and a home for Salvation sailors are amongst General Booth's latest schemes.

The Exhibition Buildings in Melbourne have been taken for all General Booth's meetings, as the accommoda-1 tion in the Town Hall, previously engaged, proved totally inadequate for the demand for tickets. Three hundred and forty-nine sanations have been found for the men who have passed through the Salvation Array Prison Gate Homes in*b«twelve months ending May 31st, wftUe sfiHysixhave - S3B? restored to their friends. No less than 742 lost stolen-or strayed people were traced in one year by the Hallelujah detectives engaged in the Salvation Array's Australian Enquiry Department, Close upon a million cheap meals were supplied in six months in the various branches of the Salvation Army's social wing in England.