Salvation Army Items.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 673, 17 October 1891, Page 2

Salvation Army Items.

[oYKrOWLLY COXTBIBUTID.J Wheh interviewed by a correspondent of the Sydney Daily Telegraph on the subject of the over-sea colony, General Booth said ■* Arrangements with respect to the colony will have to be made In a few days. I’ve got an offer from the Cape-a remarkable offer, tor nothing—which cannot be trifled with. I was all In favor of ths Cape until the last few days, but lately, I must say. I have wavered a little. This is a very different country, There must ba a great future before this nation, must be it the people who have got It in band know anything about it, and how to manage it, as I suppose they do."

The General also stated, with regard to the finances of the Army, that everything ia made self-supporting as far as pouible. Ths receipts for the work in Great Britain, to* local expenses, overseeing, and management, amount to between £50.000 and £60,000 from all sources. The total income of the Army comes to about a million a year. The cost of management, clerks, and so on, is more than met by the Trade profits, Sir Henry Parkes took the chair at General Booth’s Darkest England meeting in Sydney. The Earl of Onslow has signified hie intention of being present at General Booth’s t* In Darkest England ” meeting in Christchurch. The Christchurch Ministers' Association have decided to present an address of welcome to General Booth on his arrival in that City. Acting under the advice of Mr Justice Hawkins, the Salvationists offered to oompromise the dispute at Eastbourne by agreeing to confine their marching and bandplaying to a certain section of the town. This compromise was rejected by the Council, and hence the battle will have to be fought out to the bitter end. The English newspapers severely censure the action o| (fin Town Council. Lady Henry Somerset laid one of the stones of a Salvation Citadel at Tottenham, Loudon. The building, to bs erected at a cost of £2OOO, will accommodate 850 people. This is one of ten Army buildings In the neighbourhood 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, Thu will altogether seat 9QQO people, at a coat of £26,000.