MR J G. WOOLLEY'S PRO-BOER VIEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 106, 7 May 1902, Page 2

MR J G. WOOLLEY'S PRO-BOER VIEWS.

ATTITUDE OF TBMPBRANOB PAItTT FSB TKBBB ASSOCIATION, Dunedin, May 5. A letter having been published her* from Canada, in which atr>-ntion wae drawn to the pro-Bo»r views of Mr J, Q. Wool ley, prohibition lecturer, as set out in the ptper Aeio Voice and edited by him in Obioago), and ti thie being the same gentleman wbe is engaged to lecture agtin throughout New Znaland, a meeting of the United Temperance Reform Council was held tonight, when it was resolved " that thie meeting disclaims any sympathy with pro-Boer seutiment*; it instruo s the secretary to communicate immediately with the New Z aland Allianot to escertain if the{ statements attributed to Mr Woolley ere correct, and in the went of their being as reported, to imperatively demand that the Alliance cancel the engagement with Mr Woolley."

Wellington, May 6. At a meeting of the New Zealand Alliance this evening the following resolution was adapted" That having read the attack made upon Mr J. G. Woolley by a Toronto correspondent in several New Zealand piper', and having carefully examined the -rtioles in Mr WoalUy'a paper, upon which the attack professes to be bised, the Executive of the AUianoe has no hesitation in eayiog the letter in question is characterised by gross garbling and misrepresentation, and that the ooargee of an ti-British sentiment and ho*tility te the British Empire * liich an brought against Mr Woolley ar« not only without foundation, but positively the reverse of fact."