MINERS’ ACCIDENT FUND.

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 116, 22 February 1872, Page 3

MINERS’ ACCIDENT FUND.

To tlic Editor of TllK THAMES CICAIIIMAX Sin, —My attention has been drawn to a long letter which appears in your contemporary of yesterday, which is, in my opinion, nothing but an advertisement for tlic Odd Fellows Society. Now, Sir, I think, that a “ Miners’ Accident Fund” might lie established independent of tlic 1.0.0. F., and be the means of doing a large amount of good. It is not everyone who is desirous of becoming ail Odd Fellow, on account of attending the lodges, which, in the old country' end in convivial meetings after the business of the Lodge is over. This would not be so ill the society formed for a “ Miners’ Accident Fund,” but a society which would be conducted by r miners themselves. I know privately that you, Mr Editor, know as much about tlic Manchester Unity as any man in (lie colony, and I do not think you would lend your columns to flic support of a “ Miners’ Accident Fund” if you did not think it necessary. I would beg to impress upon my fellow-workmen the necessity' of establishing a “ Miners’ Accident Fund” on the Thames.—l am, Ac., A Miner. THE HEAVY WAIN AND FLOOD. To tlie Editor of tiih Thames Gi aiioian. Sir, —As you know, to your cost, tlic consequences of the (lend on Tuesday' night and Wednesday' morning, I would ask you, Is nothing to be done ?—arc we still to be content with the miserable surface drainage that we now have, which is quite incapable of carrying off the water? Last night nearly' every house on the flat was more or less flooded. The Provincial Government are drawing a large, revenue from this district, and expending little or nothing ; and I would like to ask, how it is that we have no drainage in the place? If the Provincial Government receive the revenue, what do they do with it? It is well known that tho Highway Boards have not the power or the means to make sewers, and drain the town as it ought, to be, and every' instance of heavy rain entails a serious loss to the inhabitants of the district, without taking into consideration the illness and disease that are entailed in badly drained districts. Something ought to be done at once in tlic matter, and I trust you, Mr Editor, will help to gel us something like proper drainage.—l am, Ac., Aqu.vno.

O’JIEA V. RADFORD. To ttic Editor or tlie THAMES UIAIIUIAX. Sir, —“Lex” is a sorry advocate for the uncalled-for remarks of the Resident Magistrate in this case; it savours too much of special pleading. This is a mining community, tlie complainant professes to be a mining man, for lie lias been acting as a mining agent and broker. The Warden, which the R.M. is, is likewise understood to be well up in mining terms, aud it seems, from his ignorance of I lie term to “ rub him down,” that it is lie who requires a glossary, and not the defendant. There is no doubt that the R.M. went out of his way to make remarks on the mining phraseology of the defendant’s language, so well known to the majority of the inhabitants here, the “ miners and it would bo well, and it is not too late, for him to do so now, to ask the assistance of bis advocate “ Lex ” to compile for him a glossary of mining phraseology. It would bo useful. —1 am, &c., West Countryman.