MR KEIR HARDIE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8550, 8 October 1907, Page 5

MR KEIR HARDIE.

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PRESS COMMENTS,

PLAYING THE MOUNTEBANK,

MUCH AMUSEMENT IN A TERRIBLY DULL TIME.

Received October 7, 9.59 p.mt BOMBAY, October 7

The Times of India says that the English press .pictures Mr Keir Hardie as "a firebrand in a powder magazine," whereas he is "a missfire with a charge of damp powder." The Bombay Gazette declares the "Hardie interview "would be amusing but for the painful spectacle of one of the ruling race playing the mountebank. He is affording much amusement in a terribly dull time. "AN UNDESIRABLE VISITOR." By Telegraph—Press Association. AUCKLAND, October 7. At a meeting of the Parr.ell Borough Council, to-night, the Mayor (Mr G. W. Basley) referred in strong terms to the approaching visit of Mr Keir Hardie to New Zealand, and expressed the opinion that Measures should be taken to prevent him from landing in the Dominion. Councillors generally agreed that he was an undesirable visitor. They pointed out that he could not very well be refused a landing, and after some discussion the following resolution was carried, and is to be telegraphed to the Premier in the morning:—"That this Council strongly deprecates any favour being shown by any Government or civic official of this Dominion to Mr Keir Hardie, whose seditious and. disloyal utterances in India prove him to be a person utterly unworthy of the regard and esteem due to a member of the House of Commons."