Mt. Benger Mail. Be just and fear not. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1919. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mt Benger Mail, 4 June 1919, Page 3

Mt. Benger Mail. Be just and fear not. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1919. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The weather lias been extremely cold lately, much snow being on the tops causing cold winds. There has been s 'veral hard frosts.

The Dunedin Winter "'how and Races have attracted a large number of visitors from this district, and consequently the service cars were over-taxed last Saturday and .Monday, over 50 travelling to Beaumont on Monday.

An unusual sight for this place is to l>e witnessed at the lagoon, Roxburgh Fast, a white crane having made its appearance there. The bird has the

honour of being the first of its kind seen in this district, and it is hard to say from whence, it came. It has quite a lot of admirers at times but seems quite uncoi/ccrned about it.

That good old winter sport golf is to be resuscitated in Roxburgh again. At a meeting held last Friday evening it was decided to reorganise the Club and to get things going as soon as possible. It is to be hoped that sports of alb descriptions will find their way back as soon as tiuus become a bit normal , again. Some time ago. under the will of the late Miss Alexander, £2,000 was given (states the Wanganui Herald) to the Wanganui Education Board for scholarships at the Technical College. As there is no necessity for provision for scholarships at the college, the Board has decided to apply to the Supreme Court, with the concurrence of the executors, wards the purchase of a hostel for tho fur permission to devote the money tocollege. conditional on a boarding scholarship being provided. The Star's Christchurch correspondent wires :—At the Returned Soldiers' Association conference on Friday the general secretary (Mr Seymour), in the course of a forcible speech on th-i kmnomic problem, said that a man earning £ll per week before the war was, when totally disabled, restricted to a pension of £5 for himself and his family. That was a decline from £ll at pre-war value to £5 post-war value. Mr Seymour drew a vivd picture or the miserable future of a man in such a position, and said that when so many people had made fortunes out of the war there was need for the cutting up of this wealth in the country and the sharing out of it as it deserved to be shared. The standard of justice which permitted the position he had stated was intolerable. The matter was the root of the whole question of the country's responsibility to the soldier. He considered that the disabled man should receive the sum he was earning before the war or its equivalent. Referring to the Appeal Court's decision regarding the New Zealand definition (if bigamy, a Christchucrh solicitor said : "It is undoubted that the Imperial Parliament can legislate in regard to a crime committeed anywhere in the British Empire ; but the Dominion Parliaments, by their constitution being limited to legislation in matters affecting the jtueo, order, and good government of their dominions, are held to be limited to the exercise of their power within the territorial limits of these dominions. Tt is unlikely that matters can rest thne. An app3'.l to the Privy Council seems to be probable. If that body upholds the view of the majority of the New Zealand Court of appeal this undoubtedly will be a subject fitting for the Imperial Conference. The question is not limited to the crime of bigamy —or, indeed, to any crime at all—but brings into prominence the difference between the vast powers of the British Parliament and the narrow ones of colonial legislatures." PRESERVING THE EYES. Indications that the sight is not so ' good as formerly are when the book has to be held at arm's length or near the face, or when a mist grows before objects one wishes to see. If your eyes are at all troublesome get. them tested 1 without delay. Right glasses may help ■ you wonderfully and preserve your ' eyes. HUGH NEIL, D.8.0.A., Glasgow