OUR SYDNEY LETTER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13699, 16 March 1908, Page 6

OUR SYDNEY LETTER.

[from oun own" corkespondkxt.] Si'DNKY March 11. THE KING OF CLUBS. Whims the rest, of Australia i s talking 1 ' cricket, or looking at horses lacing, or lotting up figures in its daily ledger, 0r speculating as to the site tor the Federal capital, Tom Biurowcs is cheerfully )rpa] ._ ing his own records, and showing very little after-effect Iron) the ordeal. ']'| le endurance ot the man is marvellous This time he has kept, the dubs swinging for 61 hours 40 minutes—a feat lie con! eluded at Broken Hill on Saturday night at the Theatre Royal. This heats by on minute his Melbourne perioi manee, which until then had constituted a record, as it, was one minute better than that of the Sydney feat. Starting at Broken Hill a i 9.30 o'clock on Thursday mottling, he kept the clubs swinging continuously until 11.10 o'clock on Saturday night an (astonishing feat of endurance. One wonders how he kept himself a,wake all that time. He is led as lie works, beef tea and other nourishing fowl being given him; but the ordeal of endeavouring to maintain himself in a condition of wakefulness is extremely trying. The sturdy miners of Broken! Hill thronged the theatre all SatudayjLalternoon and at night, and sang in which Burrowes himself loihctiTvVi the last four minutes, while the band flayed a lively, quickstep, he gave a fine exjfo'ibj. lion of rapid club-swinging, and ijbrrci ... not seem to take as much out of him as on oftier similar occasions, tor when the new record was established, amidst a scene of the greatest enthusiasm, | Burrowes appeared fresher than in ; Melbourne, and addressed the crowd. THEATRICAL MATTERS. Madame Sarah Bernhardt's tour of this part of the world next year will include New Zealand, the playgoers of thu Dominion will be glad to hear. Ihe great actress, who will 'begin in Australia her farewell journey round the globe, will have a repertoire of twelve plays, including " L'Aiglon," and will bring a company of 30 persons. For " Peter Fan," Barrie's delightful play, there will lie a new actor as Captain Hook, the pirate. This will he Mr. Lor ing Fern ie, # who has ■ bad experience in the piece in England for two seasons. As announced some weeks ago, Miss Tit tell Brune is to play the title role, but the other members of the cast will be selected from Mr. Williamson's other companies in Australia. Miss Margaret Anglin, the distinguished American actress, who will probably he in Svdney in June, will bring a leading man from America with her. The original plan, by which Mr. G. S. Titheradge is to be a member of the company, will be preserved. Just now Mr. 'J itheradgc is playing in a new piece in London, "A Woman of Kronstadt," but this will not in any way prevent his fulfilling his Australian engagement. Madame Ada, Crossley, the celebrated contralto, wiL'. bring four other artists with her to Aus tralia. , BOY WITH A REVOLVER. Literature of the " Dead wood IJick'' type appears to have been responsible for a, sensation at Burwood, a suburb of Sydney, this morning, at "Amalfi," the residence of Miss Viekerv, in Appian Way, a fashionable' residential avenue at Burwood. An « employee named George Knight, aged 15 years, shot Annie Fealey, the cook, and then fired two shots into Miss Vickery'; bedroom door, after •which he made hi? escape. According to a newspaper account, it was the boy's business at the - place t< make himself generally useful, and in pursuing his occupation in this direction nothing unusual was noticed in his demeanour' to suggest that he contemplated trying to take the life of anyone. Annie Fealey, who is aged about 30 years, left the kitchen to gather some chips for the tire, and while she was stooping down at the woodheap young Knight suddenly appeared at the rear of tfic house, brandishing a revolver. Without showing any undue excitement, he pointed the revolver atthe woman, and dramatically called npor her, "Hands up!" Miss Fealey turned, and saw the muzzle of the revolver levelled at her, and as she was rising to a standing position the lad fired deliberately at her. Too bullet entered the fleshy part of her right arm, and she screamed and swooned. Knight made off round the side of the house to the front. He entered the front door, and emptied two more cartridges into the door of the bedroom occupied by Miss Viekerv. Afterwards he ran down the garden path, carrying the smoking revolver in his hand. So far no reason can be assigned for Knight's sensational behaviour, except that he is known to have lately been reading bushranging stories.