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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 6292, 30 October 1891, Page 2

"Genkbal" Booth has expressed the opinion at Christchurch that New Zealand will not be the site of his settlement. We sincerely hope it will not be. The " General," we fancy, does not quite understand what he is doing. To retain the favors of the populace he has declared himself to be a friend of the worker, andhe tells that class that his salvation colonists ■will not enter into competition with the labor already here. Pushed into a oorner, apparently, by a representative of the Lyttelton Times, he admits that his scheme for placing surplus labor on the land would benefit the labor market generally by relieving the hours. We do not quite know what it all means, but we thoroughly understand this, namely, that the labor market in these colonies is fully stocked, and wants nothing from the slums of England to increase the workmen or " relieve the hours." It has been pointed out to us that during the operation of the public works and immigration policy thousands of people were introduced here who, it was supposed, had been specially picked for colonial life. Not more than' eighty per cent did any good for themselves. What then might we not expect from the haphazard selection of "General" Booth's paupers.and criminals, whothemsehes are indiscriminately taken from the submerged classes of Darkest England ? Wo trust "General "Booth will be good enough to pass on.