Salvation Army Items.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 665, 29 September 1891, Page 3

Salvation Army Items.

[officially contributed.] Gxnrral Booth proposes to open up Western Australia to the Salvation Army, and possibly to start operations there in connection with the Darkest England Scheme. The proposed new International Headquarters in London will embrace halls to hold 1200, 3000, 5000, and 10,000 people, and also a Salvation Army Hotel, Restaurant, and Boarding House. General Booth has undertaken to sweep the London streets of all the homeless poor before next winter, and to this end he ask? for the Casual Wards, which are at present empty, and for the services of the Police to drive the people in, so that upon payment of • small charge they can have food, warmth, and shelter. If they have no more?, the General would provide two or three hours’ work for them, so that they could earn sufficient for a night’s lodging* The General is preparing to provide the people of England with good wholesom- food st fourpence a pound, It is to ba something that looks like and tastes like coffee. A bed of valuable clay has been discovered on the Salvation Army farm at Hadleigh, JEseex, and the manufacture of bricks, tiles, drain pipes, and all sorts d terracotta goods Is to be commenced, Ten thousand to-' slot London dust, to be delivered on the farm, has been contracted for, from which everything that is useful will be extraced. Two thousand people sleep in the Salvation Shelters in London every night A Home for Friendless Beys 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 accommodation in the Town Hall, previously engaged, proved totally inadequate for the demand for tickets. [Cablegrams received are to the effect that the General is being greeted moat enthusiastically in Australia,] Three hundred and forty-nine situations have been found for the men who passed through the Australian Salvation Army Prison Gate Homes in the twelve months ending May 31st, while sixty-six have been restored to their friends. Mo less than 742 lost, stolen, or strayed, people, were traced in one year by the Hallelujah detectives engaged ia the Sal ration Army’s Australian Enquiry department. Close upon a million cheap meals were supplied in six months in the various brfiuchea of the Salvation Army’s Social Wlbx in England, and several of these branches were only opened for a part of that six months. Ths Salvation Army has now in the prase, , Maori hymn book, containing over 100 jtPFJ hymns translated into Maori language. This has bssn complied by Staff Captain Moldaw&y, who is in command of the relive WOrk,