SPORTING NOTES.
Tattersali's biggest prize, £27,000, fell this year to Jack Layton, one of the leaders in the great shearers' strike of 1890, who up to the early part of tbia month was far away in the north-west of ■_ Queensland, over 1200. miles from Brisbane. When the good news reached him he was opal digging in the Adavale ranges, and be dropped Jiis pick to scan the result list. His great luck didn t upset him; — " though of course I felt; a little excited for two or three minutes." He is a bachelor—a bashful, brawny, six-foot Scotchnan, 30 years of age, and sober as a judge ; a good busbman, a " gun" shearer, a miner, fencer, horse-breaker—everything. He has been in Queensland some nine years, and has spent nearly the whole time in the Adavale district. He leaves Sydney for Scotland on the 28th November. Three mates have come with him to see him off. The news of his good fortune preceded him all the way from Adavale, where his fellow workers turned out to give him a
send off to f-ydney, where he has banked Ilia pile. He intends, after visiting Scotland, to return to Queensland, where he will have no objection to etand as a labor member. Of Northern labor troubles he speaks with much feeling.-—The Bulletin, November 26th. " v . -
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Thames Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 7368, 6 December 1892, Page 4
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