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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 41, 9 February 1894, Page 15

Messrs Muir and Co, 16 Princes street, DunediD, call oar'icular attention to their waterproof coats. All orders conferred on the firm are carefully attended to and skilfully fulfilled. The Straits Insurance Company offer exceptionally favourable conditions to persons dealing with them. The Empress Elizabeth of Austria, who is at present residing in G»iollo, near Pesth, sived a traiu oq Monday, the 30th ult, from being wrecked. Her Majesty was taking a walk by the side of the line when she observed a number of large stones placed oa the rails. Knowire that a train was dne within the next ten minutes, the Empress hurried on to the nearest pointsman's box, aud tnus s-cured the removal of the impediments, but only a few seconds before a train full of passengers passed over the spot. Three men, miners oat of employment through the s'nkc have been prosecuted at Barnsley for stealing coal from a disused pit Lady Henry Somerset tells the etory :^" Alderman Raley tills me that the c*se on Saturday of the three men who were arrested for gathering coal from a disused pit (belonging to a brewery company), has created a strong feeling in° the town, and tba' you came forward to bail these men out? 1 "That is true," replied Mr Drake. '• I could not stand by an i see three men whose characters were blameleas condemned for doing that which the ordinary ioßtincts of humanity would prompt. Even the inspector, when they were brought into thd town handcuffed, turned away and said he could not bear the si»ht. I know their families," he continued, with enthusiasm. " One man had a wife who bad been confined only a day or two, and she was lying starving, hungry, and cold in her bed. The other had two children ill with typhcid fever, one of whom at that time lay dying. They had not an article of food or furniture left in the house, and last Saturday, when the man was taken up, the women and children had not a blanket to cover themselves, and were huddling together on the bare bed to try and k^ep themselves warm. The repeesemative of the colliery proprietors was asked in court if he was instructed to press the caae, and he replied, 'Yen,' bat the bench dismissed the m^n under the First OffeaderB 1 Act."