NEWS ITEMS.

Colonist, Volume XLVI, Issue 10958, 24 February 1904, Page 4

NEWS ITEMS.

1 Eight of the Victorian Eleven that visited Sydney were teetotallers. Cricketers generally are (says an Australian writer) more abstemious now than they were ten or twenty ' years ago. Apart from all other con--1 siderations, abstemiousness pays, : since a player inclined to "take too 4 much" has little chance given him ; I of winning distinction in the highest j j grades of Australian cricket.

The death is 'reported from (Mar.eilles of Mr Percy Brough, actor nephew of Mr Robert Brough, the well-known actor-manager. The deseased was a member of the J3 rough Comedy Oompany when it visited the colony in 1900. £ — A locomotive and] cars became {unmanageable while running down the Oopper Belt Railroad, Utah and dashed down the steep mountain grade for a distance of-several^miles. At times the *» speed was more than a hundred miles an hour. Eight big curvesjfform death traps along the line. „rThe_ runaway riishedpjaround seven of these without leaving the ack. When the last one was reached the engine plunged into the canyon, the cars piling on top of it. The vast Bolton estates in T Devon, Cornwall, and Wilts, of which the last Duke of sClevelahd was- tenantin -tail, are about to be sold to the highest bidder. They comprise over 8000 acres, and. have a rent-roll of £7060 a year. '