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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 48, 30 March 1894, Page 11

The loss of life in English mines during the past year appears to have beeu very considerable. According to a Parliamentary return ißßued on Friday the total livea lost by accident in and about ihe coal mines of Great Britain and Ireland dnring 1893 was 1,056. Of these 411 resulted from falls of metal, 103 deaths occurred in the shafts, 265 deaths come under the head of miicel'aneous underground accidents, and 119 persons lost their lives by machinery and other accidents on the surface. Tbe total deaths for 1892 were 1,016, and thus last year's recor 1 marks an increase of forty. Quite unnoticed by the Press, one of the best of modern songwriters passed away a few days ago in the person of Dr John Francie Waller. As soDg-writer, as humourist, and as scholar, he ranks high among Irish writers. Born in Limerick in 1809, Dr Waller entered Trinity College, Dublin, where he had a moßt distinguished career. He became editor of the Dublin University Magazine, in succession to his intimate friend, Charles Lever, with whom, at all tun eg, he carried on a moßt interesting correspondence. Besides his numeious poems, mostly published over his signature of "Jonathan Freke blmgsbv," Dr Waller edited many of tbt* English poets and s>perintended the publication of " Toe Imperial Dictionary of Biography," a most useful work. He occupied au offi-ial post in Dublin tor mmy yean, and retired uot lung ago, since which time he had lived in Loc*doo, aud a f his country Beat, liiebop's StorlforJ.— Cork Examiner.