What is the objection taken to your scheme ? The objection, so far as I understand ib, is thi3, a certain class say " Thore is not work enough for us, and to import more workers into this country will only multiply the class already outside of tho Unions, and thereby increase competibion, that you will destroy our mastery of tho situation." And your answer is—■ My answer is that my scheme takes away the superfluous labour and puts ib on the land; nob only removes surplus labour from competing with the labourers already established here, but converts it into a pro ducing class. Do you nob then anticipate opposition from the farmers if you enter into competi tion with them ? I meet that objection by saying thab I multiply the consumer aa well as the producer. I nob only introduce the agri culturist bub also the manufacturer. If they both come out there is a fair balance my hopeiand my intention is to take a town' from England and set down here in the middle of the forest, produce all they want, make them pay rates and taxes, maintain their own poor and draw from your towns criminals, ..etc. and reform them. _

"I have been racing through the country at expiessspeed,"saidGeneralßoothtoaninter viewer prior to leaving Sydney, "and conse quently have had hardly a fair opportunity of judging your people as a whole. I have delivered 35 addresses in seven days, and altogether have been quite as busy as it is possible for any man to be. Therefore I will nob trust myself to speak of the Australian people generally, bub I can speak of my own followers—of the hun dred thousand adherents of the Salvation Army to bo found in these colonies. The work done by the Army here has -been greater than even I imagined. Ib has sunk deeper and produced a more genuine effect bhan 1 anticipated." " Then you think tho general prosperity of the Australian masses tends to increase the capacity of the people for salvation work?" " Undoubtedly, to a certain exteno ; but in any case, your genuine workman, pro vided he is sufficiently makes an admirable salvation soldier. 