GEN. BOOTH'S SCHEME.
NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE SHIPPING COMPANIES. A CONTINGENT FOR NEW ZEALAND. Press Association.— Telegraph.—Copyright. London, May 16. General Booth is negotiating with the various shipping companies in Regard to their terms for conveying a contingent of 5b,000 of the submerged tenth to New Zealand. The General states that he intends to send his colonists on in batches of 5000 each. Although General Booth is endeavouring to come to terms with the shipping companies, he has not yet submitted the details of his colonisation scheme, but lie will probably first make a cautious experiment with 50 families, who will be sent to Cape colony to form a village community.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 8881, 18 May 1892, Page 5
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