FOOTBALL.

Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 11864, 19 February 1907, Page 4

FOOTBALL.

ENGLAND DEFEATS IRELAND Received Peb 18, 10.47 p.ra London Peb 18 In the football match Engand defeated Ireland by a goal to lore. BRITISH POLITICS. MR K-IER HARDIE AT CAMBRIDGE. OLD AGE~PENSIONS PROSPECTS OF UNIONISTS. ROWDY UNDERGRADUATES. Received Fob 18, 10.10 p.m London, Feb .18*. Mr Kier Hardie. speaking at Cambridge Guildhall, declared that Labor would insist on old age pensions being provided for during the present year. lie added that if a difficult/ in the way of finding the f money was presented by Sir H C Bannerman, though the Laborites were Freetraders to & man, he did not believe, that all their influence could prevent large sections of the workers being lured over to the Unionist side at the next elections on tho promise of pensions as the outcome of a system of preferential tariffs. Prior to the meeting, a bottle of harmless but evil-smelling chemicals was thrown through a window, and undergraduates invaded the Guildhall. A small anti -Socialistic section, numbering about thirty, was exceedingly rowdy, and pelted Mr Kier Hardie with oranges and sugar dipped in chemicals. The Senior Proctor appealed to them for a fair hearing, and restored comparative calm for a period of twenty minutes; A carriage that was supposed to be awaiting Mr Hardie was smashed.