Salvation Army Items.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 636, 21 July 1891, Page 2

Salvation Army Items.

GENERAL BOOTH’S VISIT TO THE COLONIES. Ths following items in connection with that energetic organisation, the Salvation Army, will be of general interest General Booth is expected to leave London this month on his tour of inspection round the world. He will touch at Cape Colony, and then proceed to Australia via Hobart. He is due at Auckland on or about October 20tb, and as at present arranged will conduct meetings at Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin, probably calling in at Gisborne on hie way round the coast. The duration of his stay in New Zealand will be about three weeks. On his way back to England he will inspect the Indian Salvation Army. Colonel M'Kie, one of the most successful evangelists in the Salvation Army, who has seen some 25,000 people converted in his meetings throughout the world, will shortly be making a tour through New Zealand. He will arrive from Australia, via the Bluff, at the end of the month, and will visit most of the principal towns in the colony. The Salvation Army’s Central Labor Bureau at Christchurch has done satisfactory work in the first month of its existence. The names of over 300 men have been registered as seeking employment, and work, mostly of a temporary character, has been found for about eighty of that number. A Rescue Home will be opened in Auckland to-morrow by the Salvation Army. This makes four Rescue Homes that the Army has in the colony. During last year, of 250 cases passed through the various Homes, from 70 to 75 per cent, proved satisfactory. The Army has now 43 Rescue Homes in various parts of the world, with a staff of 210 officers, dealing with 2000 cases per annum.