GENERAL BOOTH'S SCHEME.
AN OVERSEA COLONY IN NEW ZEALAND. Prut Association.—Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. London, May 12. General Booth is in treaty with the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Shipping Company to convey a band of his oversea colonists to New Zealand instead of to Cape Colony. Wellington, Friday. Re the rumoured intention of General Booth to send a shipment of the "submerged tenth " to New Zealand, enquiry at the local Army headquarters elicited the fact that when the last mail left England General Booth was disposed to consider New Zealand the most suitable place in which to try the experiment of his over-sea colony, and statements contained in the monthly official publication of the Army seemed to indicate that two colonies would be planted, one tit the Cape and one on 5000 acres somewhere in Taranaki district, offered to the General by the Government on the occasion of his visit to Wellington ; it is also understood the General was promised 3000 acres in the North of Auckland by a private individual for the purposes of his experiment.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 8878, 14 May 1892, Page 5
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