BRITISH POLITICS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8362, 19 February 1907, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

A ROWDY MEETING. Received Last Night, 10.10 o'clock. LONDON, February 18. Mr Keir Hardie, speaking at the CamDridge Guildhall, declared that labour would insist on old age pensions during the present year. He added that if the difficulty of finding money prevented Sir Henry Camp-boll-Bannerman acting, though the Labourites were free traders to a iran, he did not believe that all their influence could prevent large sections of the workers being lured over to the Unionist side next election on a promise of pensions, as the outcome of a system of preferential tariffs. Prior to the "meeting a bottle of harmless evil-smelling chemicals was thrown through a window. The Undergraduates invaded the Guildhall, and a small anti-Sociaiistic section, numbering about 30, were exceedingly rowdy, and pelted Mr Keir Hardie with oranges and sugar dipped in chemicals. The Senior Proctor appealed for a fair hearing, and restored comparative calm for a period of twenty minutes. The meeting closed in an uproar. A carriage, supposed to be waiting for Mr Hardie, was smashed.