MORE ABOUT THE KELLYS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 646, 10 March 1879, Page 2

MORE ABOUT THE KELLYS.

}- -■■... (Rr^jafthe Australasian) This Kelly has a sense of humour, too, combined with his dare-devil qualities. The enterprise of sticking up the town of Jerilderie was quite equal to the raid on Euroa m its generalship, and, m addition, it exhibited a grotesquenessof audacity-which is •not- ! -w»ntiiig v '"iv* 1 llio" ludicrous. , The incident of the bushrangers taking otft'Offeof the cbristables ..about i the town wito^heni,, to^utoj^-.;, picion is one of Ihe most comic that ever occurred m Hie /History of bushranging m Australia. Then there is the other one of the bushrangers < getting a policeman to introduce them, as ".the Kelly's," to, the' manager of. tne f banj&* they were abdut to'rob. -'wlltati a sense *• of superiority these .scoundrels must possess ; how profound must" be their contempt for the police and the people over whom they terrorise with such" ende. And yet a shot fired/ or the bold rush • of a few men, and thd spell Would te. broken, and the bushrangers Would b^ overpowered m amdment by a drdwdof those who, a few minuteß before were passive as sheep m. their h£indsi r This easy-going contempt these desperadoes show for the police and the public is, perhaps, the most irritating tiling 1 ; about their misdeeds. It i»,.> indeed, adding insult to injury. These men should remeiiiber that even the worm, when trodden on, may turn, and the wrath of the n>p»t pacific animal is said to be most dangerous. There may be a limit even to the endurance of the police. Referring to What we said just before; of the mostcpinic incidents m the, affair, we are ( hpp sure r , if this character mhy ntft !bo Ulsp'uted 6 by another. We allude, of c6nrs6 t vto the? statement attributed by ,?pne., of $he« journals to the Chief Commissioner of Police, "that ; the police are again on alert [i.e., Sifter the event], and, are determined not to be beaten this time.** What a delightfully sanguine resolve, to be sure ! Many of > toa remember how Ul' days of the. bushrangingj/ period^ m New South Wales nearly every- telegram of robbery and outrage, used to end with* the words, y'* Sir Frederick' P&tiiujjer and the police are m hot pursuit."' We ace afraid that after three or four months waiting for the capture of the Kellys any attempt to impose on our faith by any similar little devices will find us too desponding.for hope, : and. much to distrustful for expectation. But thai the whole affair is deeply discreditable to the good name of Victoria, 'aha that it is the most absolute and severe con* damnation of the management <of our police force, is a matter aboui which, we presume, there are not, at this time, two opinions m the length and breadth of the- colony. ' '•' ■• '■;.,?