THE SALVATION ARMY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3936, 12 October 1891, Page 2

THE SALVATION ARMY.

General Booth, when in Melbourne, had an interview with the Earl of Hopetoun, G.O.M.G. the Governor of Victoria. W A deputation of WesleyaiE Minis • ters waited upon General the Intercolonial Melbourne to bid him welcome and God speed. When interviewed by a correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" on the subject of the Oversea Colony General Booth said:—" Arrangements with the Colony will have to be made in a few days. I've got an offer from the Cape, a remarkable offer,—for nothing—wkioh cannot be trifled with. I was all in favour with the Cape until the last few days, but lately, I must say, 1 wavered a little. Th is a very different couifcy. Thare must be a great future before this nation, must be, if the people Fbo have got it in band know anything about it, and bow to manage it, as I suppose they do." The General also stated, with regard to the finances of the Army, that everything is made self-support-ing as far as possible. The receipts for the work in Great Britain, for looal expenses, overseeing, and manage* ment, amount to between £50,000 and 60,000 from all sources. The total income of the Army comes to about a million«» year. The cost of management, clerks, and so on, is ; more than met by the Trade profits. Sir Henry Parkes took the chair at i General Booth's Darkest England meeting in Sydney. The Ohristohurch Ministers' ' Association have deoided to present : an address of welcome to General i Booth on his arrival in that City. : General Booth has consented to dedicate the new Salvation Fortress, ' now in course of erection h» Jtowling ; St, Dunedin. '^ A sting on the advice of Mr Justice i Hawkins, the Salvationists offered to . compromise the dispute at East* I bourne by agreeing to confine their I marohing and band-playing to a cerb tain section of the town. This com--1 promise was rejeoted by the Council, i and hence the battle will have to be - fought out to the bitter end. The i English newspapers severely censure - the action of the town council.

Lady Henry Somerset laid one of the stones of the Salvation Citadel at Tottenham, London. The building to be erected at a cost of £2OOO, will accommodate 850 people. This is one of ten army building in the neighborhood of London which have been commenced since January of last year, all of which are to be completed by Christmas. Seven of them are already finished. They will altogether seat 9000 people at a cost of £26,000.