Mangonui County Times AND NORTHERN REPRESENTATIVE. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1904. The Last of the Light Brigade.

Northland Age, 27 September 1904, Page 2

Mangonui County Times AND NORTHERN REPRESENTATIVE.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1904. The Last of the Light Brigade.

“What right, what true, what fit we justly call, Let this he all my care —lor this is all.” ' —Pops.

Britain’s Neglect of Her Absent-minded Beggar. Britain’s neglect of her war veterans has become proverbial. How often do we bear of some war-scarred soldier or sailor, who has borne bis share towards upholding the prestige of the Empire, ending his days in a workhouse, after years of abject poverty ? These are not isolated eases—even now such cases of neglect are common. The soldiers of the Crimea, Indian Mutiny, and the hundred and one campaigns Britain has undertaken, all are treated alike—so soon as the veteran by reason of old ago becomes useless, Britain’s Shameful neglect commences. To the July number of “ M.A.P.”; Mr. T, 11. Roberts writes to say that, in consequence of the small public response his appeal for his old Balaclava heroes has received within the past few months, the Bund is actually within sight of speedy extinction. To the thirty needy survivors of the Charge Mr. Roberts- pays out \£lo weekly, but the public subscriptions in April, May, and June, averaging only nine shillings a week, he sees that he will he obliged to discontinue the fund unless a liberal and immediate response comes to his appeal. “Mr. Roberts is one of the hardest toilers in the field of journalism, (says “ M.A.P.”) and it would, indeed, be most regrettable if services so willingly given as his, and so ill to he spared from the working of his own business enterprise, were chilled into, cessation by the public’s want of sympathy with his scheme for keeping these old men out of the workhouse. ‘ Out from the jaWs of death, out from the nouth of hell/ atid into the doors of the poorhouse, seems the wrong sort of journey altogether for these brave old boys to make, audit would behaving poor opinion of the country’s patriotism if one did not feel pertain of a. satisfactory reply Bjhese last words of the porseand unselfish founder of HHklaclava Fund: to all patriotic people to Ip so that I may not lie obliged year of the Charge, to and thus compel these hack to the _ utter , • this fund has resided