The London correspondent of, the Sydney Daily Telegraph writes under date of February Ist:—This week Mr John Burns was among the King’s guests at Windsor. He was invited, with the Lord Chancellor and Mr L Harcourt, to dine, and remain the night. Mr. Burns, who of course had to appear at dinner in official dress, was lodged in Edward 111. Tower, with rooms overlooking the Long Walk. Next morning at daylight members of the household were surprised to sec Mr. Burns strolling about the terraces, in his everyday short jacket and bowler hat. It was favorable weather to' enjoy the landscape view from the Castle. Mr. Burns also walked round St. George’s Chapel and tho Albert Memorial Chapel, but it was too early for the doors to bo open. He inspected the objects of art in the grand corridor, says the Evening News, turned in for breaklast, and at 10 o’clock, with the Lord Chancellor and Mr. Harcourt, left for London. On their way to the station the Grenadier sentries presented arms, and Mr. Burns acknowledged the salute. To those who have I watched Mr. Burns’s career during (he past twenty years, and who can recall his speeches during the great dock strike, and his Trafalgar Square denunciations of everybody in authority, this Windsor visit is very interesting. But it is really to his credit that he has thus climbed up the ladder. It is not easy to do so in an old-fashioned, conservative country like this. And, of course, he is abused by those who have been left behind. Air. Burns’s chief characteristics are his undoubted honesty, his 1 courage, liis sterling common sense, 1 and his industry. But never did a 1 public man possess a tongue that was such “a world of iniquity” as ( his.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2039, 26 March 1907, Page 4
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