MR. C. L. MACDONALD. TRAGIC DEATH.

Much regret was expressed at Caulfield races on Saturday when it was learned that Mr Colin Leslie Macdonald was dying. Early that morning he had been found lying unconscious in a room in his flat at Cliveden Mansions, East Melbourne. Near him was a revolver. Mr. Macdonald, who had been in ill-health for a long time, died in a private hospital on Saturday afternoon of a bullet wound in the head. He was aged 73 years.

For half a century Mr Macdonald had taken a leading part in racing affairs, first in South Australia and later in Victoria and New South Wales. Beginning his career in South Australia he was a very young man when he