PLEASANT PROSPECTS.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1106, 13 February 1879, Page 3

PLEASANT PROSPECTS.

" Everyone in Hobart Town," says a correspondent of the SouthlandDai lif S~dvs, ha« something to say about the Kcllys. A wellknown fruit dealer informed me that he believed one of the gafig was in New Zealand. A man cnme into his shop one day and asked fur a plate of cherries, and observing the man was a stranger, he asked him to sit down ai.d eat them. The conversation immediately turned upon the Kelly's. Ihe man asked the latest news about them, and then vent on to sav it was no use trying to catch them. He then asked the fruit dealer if he was ever suck up. ' Yes,' he said, 'one.' in the early days.' 'And how did you get on ¥ 'Oh, well enough ; I forked out quietly all T had, and then asked them to giva me something to carry me home, winch they did. Some men were afterwards apprehended on suspicion of having robbed someone. The authorities wanted rr.e to swear they were the same who robbed nic, but I knew better than to do that.' ' Aye,' said -he man, yon did perfectly right.' He then said good day and left. The fruit dealer afterwards learned that a suspicious looking man had come by a Melbourne steamer, and that he had got on the steamer at the lU'.rf.x instead of Melbourne. He also remembered afterwards that the cherry-eater was very like a portrait of the Kelly gang. lie could never see him again, hut believes he went away by the New Zealand steamer. So you see we had better lock out. ;