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New Zealand Tablet, Volume VIII, Issue 415, 25 March 1881, Page 7

An instructive coincident. Lately a colliery explosion took place at Pen-y-Graig, causing the death of 101 miners, most of whom bad been married men, and left helpless widows and orphans after them. With the object of saving these poor people from starvation, a subscription was opened at the Mansion House of London? Several. Hfats of subscriptions towards this highly -deserving object have since been issued. Will it be believed ? There can be no question about it, however. The total amount subsciibed towards the relief of the widows and orphans of the 101 miners by the members of the House of Lords reached only £10, and this was contributed by one noble earl alone. The other 513 members of the House of Lords did not consider the relief of the widows and orphans of mere colliers worthy of notice. A subscription is proposed for the notorious Captain Boycott — why does not appear. In the very firt>t subscription for this qu.stionable purpose, the names of a dozen peers figure for sums amounting to over £400. If there ever was an incident whicbj needed do comment this is one,