NEWS IN BRIEF.

Colonist, Volume XXX, Issue 5023, 5 October 1887, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Tax Hon James "White secured n less than three out of the six events on the first day of the Sydney races, on - ■• September 17th, winning on that day - alone £1,810 in stakes. - ■ • Miss Grace — a Nottingham lady crickater—created a sensation at a recent match at Burton Joyce. Sho stayed at the wicket the whole of one afternoon, a»d scored no fewer than two hundred and, seventeen runs against the really good bowling of four men. Thb sentence of death passed on Bridget Mepbam, who was found guilty of the marder of her t-ieter, Ann Carlow, at Wangaratta, has been commuted by the Victorian Executive Council to imprisonment for life. A. Wrestling Match has just come off at Melbourne, between Dunn and Cannon, for £200. a diamond belt, and the Championship of the World. Dunn proved the victor. A BEacLAB Tbade in the manufacture'oflittle cripples for the purposes of begging has lately been discovered to ba carried on in Paris."" Mbs Atk nsos, who heroically sated come children from being bitten by a mad dog in Liverpool, and who was savagely attacked and bitten by the animal, has been despatched in a weak condition to Paris, to be treated by M. Pasteur. Mobe than a hundred members of the English Parliament booked themselves for the United States, India, and Australia during the-recess. Wbeaths of flowers, buried with mammies three thousand years ago, near Thebes, recently discovered, we^| found to still partially retain their ; ; , fragrance. , ■ '/ : Thb'Pkemieb Jockey of Australia, r:;; Mr T. Hales, has just got married: His bride and himself received a large number of presents.v Lord Carrington sent % handsome silver oigar case, a diamond bracelet wag given 'by Mrs James White, and Mr and Mrs Wm. Gannon sent a handsome bracelet, sets of studs and sleeve links. Abbangemekts are being made to begin technical education at Hobart and Lannceston.|