KEIR HARDIE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 8943, 8 October 1907, Page 2

KEIR HARDIE.

{Per Press Association. —Copyright. \ Bombay, October 7.' The Times of India says that the English proas pictures Hardie as a firebrand in a powder magazine whereas ho is a missfire with a charge of damp powder. The Bombay Gazette declares that the Hardie interviewed would be amusing but for the painful spectacle of one of the ruling race playing the mountebank. He is, the Gazette considers, affording much amusement at a terribly dull time. Reuter’s * Calcutta correspondent reports that Keir Hardie has published in the local papers telegrams exchanged with the Daily Mail, wherein lies denies part and qualifies wholly the published statements of his sentiments, which, however, appeared in the first instance absolutely without qualification in the form reported in the cablegrams in the newspapers Empire, Statesman, Friend of India, and The Bengalee. Mr Hardie, interviewed at Calcutta, admit tel using the expressions hut modified them in certain particulars in cross examination.

Natal, October 7. |“A letter to the Natal newspapers urges that the immigration restriction law ho applied to prevent Koir Hardie visiting Durban or that the people should prevent him lauding on the ground that his presence would be calculated to arouse dangerous native agitation. Press Association. Auckland, October 7.At a meeting of the Parnell Borough Council to-night, the Mayor (Mr G. W. Basley) referred in strong terms to the approaching visit of Mr Keir-llatdie to New Zealand and expressed the opinion that measures should bo taken to prevent him from landing in the dominion. Councillors generally agreed that Mr Hardie was an undesirable visitor, but they pointed out that ho could not very well be refused a .landing, and after some discussion the | following resolution was carried and is to I be telegraphed to the Premier in the morning :—“ That this Council strongly deprecates any favour being shown, by any Government or civic official of the Dominion - to Mr Keir-Hardie whose seditious and disloyal utterances in India prove him to he a person utterly unworthy of the regard and esteem due to a member of the House of Commons.”