MR KEIR HARDIE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3776, 19 October 1907, Page 4

MR KEIR HARDIE.

4> A Soft Answer. “ I write to say that I heartily endorse the sentiments of Mr Dobson, of the Federal Senate, when he declared that Keir Hardie deserves hanging for his mischievous and unpatriotic and traitorous speeches in India, and I quite agree with the Wellington paper that you as Mayor are making a grave error in receiving that traitor Hardie, as it has been announced you intend to do. If you carry out your intention may retribution attend your steps.” This remarkable utterance, signed by a clergyman residing in Auckland, reached the Hon. T. W. Hislop Mayor of Wellington last week says the times. The Mayor, in fear and trepidation, sat down yesterday to reply. He wrote as follows;

I hope you will pardon my delay in replying to your kind note. I should like if 3 t ou will supplement your kind attention to me by sending a photograph of yourself. I will then frame your note and photo in order that the note may exemplify to my friends the humanising influence which the profession of Chfistanity has bad upon one of its votaries, and so that the photograph may render familiar the features of one who has studied to such advantage the Christian rules as to judging and extending charity to others so beautifully set forth in your letter.”