KEIR HARDIE IN AUCKLAND.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 302, 24 December 1907, Page 2

KEIR HARDIE IN AUCKLAND.

Per Press Association. Auckland, Monday. Mv Keir Ilardie, the English Labor loildi'i-, reached Auckland by the Manuka last night. In conversation with a reporter, lie said lie was favorably impressed, generally speaking, with 111' conditions of life in the CoiuiiKinwealtli. lie expressed surprise at linding the' land locked up in the way it was. Asked about the position of the Labor party in Australia, he declined to express an opinion, stating that he did not believe in interfering with other people's business.

Referring to the "All I'ed" route, he said he had noticed considerable opposition to it in West Australia, "for obvious reasons." Mr Keir llardie's stay in New Zealand in limited, lie has arranged to arrive in Wellington on the 27th inst. He also intends visiting Dunedin and Invercargill.

A SfIEECH ON SOCIALISM. Per Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. Mr Keir Ilardie addressed a well-at-tended meeting of workers this evening. In the course of his speech, lie laid stress on the great advance recently 'made by the socialistic labor movement at Home. The Labor Party aimed at becoming the supreme power in the State, and would continue to work towards this end- lie urged that the party at Home and in the colonies should work hand iu hand, and not allow themselves to be separated by ally differences of a purely domestic character. He spoke most hopefully of the future of socialism, and said that, wherever socialism entered into trades unionism, the latter was the stronger for it. At the end of his speech, Mr Keir Hardie answered a number of questions. One of the questions asked was, "Can Mr Hardie say whether the remarks made, by him in India were correctly reported in the Press?" Mr Hartlic replied by asking: "Can my friend give me any idea what those remarks were?'' No more was said on the subject.

Mr Ileir Ilardio may perhaps get a nod if ho comes to New I'lyinouth, for the municipal authorities have not joined in the boycott suggested by the Patangiita County Council. For the benefit of those who don't make a special study of New Zealand's geography, it may be explained that the Patangata County Council's intensely Dominionistic sentiment was issued from the county office at Waipukurau. When the letter came before the Borough Council last night, the Mayor said while he was strongly opposed to the tenor of Mi'' Keir Hardie'a reported utterances in India, lie could not fail to respect liim for his staunch attitude as the delegate of the British Labor Party. -The letter was ordered to lie on the table.