KEIR HARDIE AT CAMBRIDGE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8744, 19 February 1907, Page 2

KEIR HARDIE AT CAMBRIDGE.

A Hot Time in ihe Old Town. Press Association —Copyright. London, February 18. Mr Keir Harclio, at Cambridge Guildhall, declared that Labour would insist on old age pensions during the present year, and be added that if difficulty of finding money prevented Sir 11. Campbell-Banner-man acting, though the Labourites are free-traders to a man, he did not believe all their influence could prevent large sections of the workers being lured over to the Unionist side at next elections on promised pensions as an outcome of the system of preferential tariffs. Prior to the meeting a bottle of harmless but evil-smelling chemicals was thrown through a window. The undergraduates invaded the Guildhall, and a small anti-Socialistic section, numbering about thirty, were exceedingly rowdy, and pelted Mr Hardie with oranges and sugardipped in chemicals. The senior proctor appealed for a fair hearing, and restored comparative calm for a period of twenty minutes. The meeting closed with uproar. A carriage supposed to be awaiting Mr Hardie was smashed. London, February 18. No such scene as that at Mr Keir Hardie ! s meeting has been witnessed at Cambridge since Cardinal Manning and Sir Wilfred Laws.on attempted to speak on local veto. Tbe Daily Chronicle and Daily News comment on the discreditable scene on the very day that the Duke of Devonshire made an appeal for re-endbwment of the University,'