MR. KEIR HARDIE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2071, 24 December 1907, Page 3

MR. KEIR HARDIE.

ARRIVAL IN AUCKLAND. Press Association. AUCKLAND, Dec. 23. Air. Keir Hardie, tile English Labor leader, reached Auckland by the s.s Manuka last night. In conversation with a reporter he said lie was favorably impressed, generally speaking, with tiie conditions of life in the Common;wealth. He expressed surprise to find the land locked, up in the way it is. Asked regarding the position of tlio Labor party in Australia, he would not give an opinion, stating tli a d he did not believe in iui erf ©ring with other people’s business. Regarding the All Red mail route, he had noticed considerable opposition to it in West Australia, “for possible obvious reasons. Mr. Keir i-lardie’s stay in New Zealand is limited. Ho lias arranged to arrive in Wellington on the 27th inst., and he also intends visiting Dunedin :nd Invercargill.

IMPERIAL LABOR PARTY WANTED.

GUARDED REFERENCE TO

INDIA.

AUCKLAND. Dec. 23. Mr. Keir Hardie addressed a wellattended meeting of workers this evening. In the course of his speech he laid" stress on the great advanco recently made by the Socialistic labor movement at Heme. The Labor party aimed at becoming the supreme power lin the State, and would continue to work towards this end. He urged that .the party at Homo and in the colonies should work hand in hand, and not alloav themselves to be separated by any differences of a purely domestic character. He spoko most "'hopefully of the future of Socialism; and said that wherever Socialism entered into Trades Unionism the latter was the stronger for it. At tho end >of his speech Mr. Hardie answered a number of questions. One of the questions asked was, ‘ O’a.n Mr. Hai'd’o say (whether the remarks made by him in India were correctly reported in the press?” Mr. Hardne replied by asking: “Can my friend give me any idea what those -remarks were?” No more was said on the subj lot, '