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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5999, 15 November 1890, Page 2

Bishop Moorhootk knows colonial foelinir as well as any Prelate in England, and has done well to" advise that in tho matter of General Booth's colonising scheme the cooperation of the colonies should bo asked. The colonies, so fur as the Au-truliiMim ones are concerned, aro averse to tho reception of tho wait's and strays, and and the dreg of England's population. It is for the moral and social salvation of these that General Booth aims at in his scheme, and, benevolent as it is, it includes tho shifting of those people from England into theee colonies. Now colonials have too frequently by act and deed shown their sympathy for tho poor and distressed in the Old Country to have it thrown in their teeth that thoy have hearts of stone, but they would be quite justified in demurring to a project which proposes to make their adopted homes a sort of social cess-pit for the disposal of "converted" people whose room in England is preferred to their company. It is to be hoped that the expense of their transportation to this part of tho world will be too great for it to be undertaken. Tho scheme, no doubt, is a very good one, and contains, as Bishop Moorhouso remarks, many elements of success, but we think these colonies, like Mr Gladstone, aro too busy just now to give it any active assistance.