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New Zealand Tablet, Volume IV, Issue 196, 29 December 1876, Page 5

Very few of us think as we begin a journey that three men are killed every day in the year, and about 15 injured by the railways. Still fewer think us they look at a grate that four men are killed every day in the year in the collieries. We have just consulted the statistics of 10.-s of life in colleries for 1875, and we find the total deaths to 'have numbered 1,242. Durham district shows to best advantage, the per-centage of life lost being 1 for every 771 men employed and 261,798 tous raised. The remaining distiicts rauge in tbe following order, the figures showing one death per number of men employed and tons got : East Scotland, 645 and 1t)8,614 j Nowcastle, 686 and 196,812 ; Midland, 783 and 188,699 ; West Scotland, 523 and 156,330 ; south Staffordshire, 424 and 129 994 ; North and East Lancashire, 440 and 110,581 ; St. Helen's, Wig»n, &c, 349 aud 88,840; E-outh Wales, 404 and 80.903; North Stafford, 424 and 120,994 ; South Western, 397 and 74,852 ; Yorkshire, . 234 and 66,962. The melancho y leature in this return is the undeniable truth that mo.t of the accicleuts are preventable ; and if managers would but observe jealously the laws of nature, and if men would but watch certain sigr.s with ordinary care, there would be no such tale to tell aa that set down here. — 'Weekly Freeman.' The ' Saturday Review ' says : — " An instructive commentary on Mr. Gladstone's project of. expelling the Turks from Europe is furnished by a repetition of the same proposal by a still more wrongheaded enthusiast — Garibaldi — but whose friends feel compelled to explain that, like Mr. Gladstone, Garibaldi means something entirely unlike what he says."