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Patea Mail, Volume I, Issue 8, 17 November 1887, Page 4

THE BULLI DISASTER. AN URGENT APPEAi. ON BEHALF OF 50 WIDOWS AND 150 ORPHANS. 4. S o disaster time took plnco at the Ji%- Pii’lii Colliery on the 23rd March U.'jt the must appalling that lias ever haimeimd in Australia, it is to be loped Hat a calamity so unparalleled in our c oloui.il history, although occurring in Few South Wales’, wil c 11 forth a VATIOX A L It KaPUX sii of pra sympathy lor the widows and orpin* deprived of their breadwinners by that tertible Circumstance. Uf upwards of EIGHTY men a.,d youths in {tie mine when the fearful explosion look place, not one was Lit to 101 l the ii.wi.iu mitt of their terrible death. Host of tlie ill-fated men were married, ami, tiiuiel'orc, leave sorrowing widows ami many helpless children —numbering Uigetner about TWO HUNDBED. And, painfully sad as it is to relate, that large lota! wid be increased wif’niu the mxt lew months by about thibtt tutuans vet UNTOUN. Regarding the straitened, as wvll as an q cucmiistanees in which these widows and orphans arc placed, it need only be men- ; ionea thill at die lime of the msa.-ger v.oilc huil been resumed at the colliery my ii few weeks alter a six mouths’ : lie.-, by which the miners lost ail ami ~ iiittii nothing. And MAttltlKD men only, huv-iig ticctt ix-emp.oymd after the strike, causes tlic mimbci of wmows ana orphans in be greater m proportion to the lost than miner ordinary circumstances would be tho case. in fact, the victims of tho disaster were cut (If turner peculiarly distressing circumstances as wed as in a tenable manner, all being men (.hirer whose means had become exhausted during the strike or whose want of means and inabilhy to obtain any other employment caused them to go to work m thb colliery. These sid facts toil their own piliiul tale concerning the position of the widows and orphans, who as a houy, it rs rdeasing hcie to state, arc MOsT UESI'ECXABJjJi. Altogether, considering the melancholy cause lor the BULDI IiELIEE Fu : XX> .movement, and the targe, number of widows and orphans overtaken by such desolating :ui;i, the crushing effects of their position must bo bit tody fell by them for many ji.;,:. years, unless assistance of a most i.-encrouo character he extended to them, ft is fervently to be hoped, therefore, that united and individual action fur the raising ot the sal.t fund to a total amount somewhat equal to the magnitude of the requirements of the occasion will be taken meet heartily and clfectiveiy all over the Australian colonies. in considering tho sad position of these FIFTY WIDOWS, let it be borne in mind that lho earnings of then' FIFTY DEAD HUSBANDS, at the low average of £2 per week, would

amount to a total or £SzUO u year, £15,G00 lor three years, £2u,UX) lor live years, or £52,000 lor ten years. Ail these earnings have been lost to iheui in a moment, and now they and their 160 o til'll AN CHILKHKN are dependent upon the punlic for auppoit. Think of this sad fact, ye more fortunately situated men and women all uver the Australian colonies, and of your kind sympathy and benevolence lend a liberal helping hand to these your bereaved and distressed fellow creatures. You cannot dry their tears, or restore to them ii-tir lost ones, but, by contributing toward the Belief Fund, you will be iictmg as husbands to the widows aim iulimis to the ftilhericss by providing means of living for liiem, ibe need is aieut, but if all in these colonies, who aavo Hearts to feel for others woes, give toward the Fund according to their niLcius, tiie wanis of those in such need v. ill be supplied to a very cunsUicratno uMU-llt. And whatever sums; may be contributed toward the iielief Fund should be forwarded with the least possime delay, as although the widows ana orphans wid be dependent upon the public lor years to come, subscriptions in aid of their wauls will bo certain to cease after a comparatively biiel pel uni from the present. It cannot be, however, that Ibis APPEAL shall have been uncle in vain, or that ii win be inadequately responded to, urged, as it is, on tlie or...act ground of our common humanity by so many wulowid w> men and orphaned chiiuien, tor whom their dead husbands and falncrs now piead, as it were, with the " eloquence of lice grave,” 'iiie Committee of which the gentlemen whoa- names aro hereto attached are : reasurers was formed at Wooiongoug ■y,he chief town of the district in which ihe un-aster occuned) immediately ailei the teirible event.. Hors ns not subscribing toward this urgently' required Fund through any local committee in their own localities, or in any other way' more desirable to them selves, can do so by addicting their kind contributions tithe* to mo Behind Committee in Cyuney, tho Branch Committee at Bulii (eight miles from Wooiongoug), or to \Y. J. FOULTEK, Mayor of Wollongong, A, A, TUifNEK, Police Magistrate, Joint Tkeasukeus, SV OId01!gU11g 13 raIICII Puili Jteliuf Fund. Town Hall, Woolongong, A.b.Vv ~ April Gth, l£b7. lor their i ast support, and wune ioltci*-* lug a continuance lor the latum, assures all who may favour him with orders that the attention wid be prompt, his woilc- | matiship good, and his charges to meet j the times, suictiy moderate. Jobbing work, town or country. Address: Cambridge street. NOTICE, pitRS JACOfuB desires to notify to her many friends that she has opened business in her premises. EG MO A T - STAKE T, i with a large, and web selected stocic of | * and i Can. mu:ns’ Linen Duai-ehv, Fancy | Goods, c.tc., Etc. | t./i Vt'-Mv'.i i. s ;m*p onon. Ac, ■dcvVor. .■ .... lli-’ !'■ .cm cs on I Lif -Jo ; ’- 1- e' -S I U ■-} vIC v* , M.-’k. o AvO.-i Li : Egmoul-sireet, * Neatly Unposi'e the C mrGhcaio.