AUSTRALIA.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 269, 14 February 1879, Page 2

AUSTRALIA.

STICKING-UP OF ANOTHER TOWNSHIP BY THS KELLY GANG.

Sydney, *Feb. 11

" The Kelly gang visited Jerilderie township, fifty miles from Deniliquin, oiTMoiiday,"" confined , the" , police "iti* the' lock-up, stuck-up -the Bank of New i South Wales, and took about ,£2OOO. | .They. also, tore, do.wu the,, telegraph. Jing, j and threatened, the .operator when he attempted to restore communication. I Their operations wore , conducted with the coolest audacity. The Kellys, in police' uniform: paraded the streets and "bailed up an hotel, but harmed-'no one.' They took all the arms and horses of the , police and left at nine o'clock at night. - The French man-of-war, AUier arrived at Cook town with troops, A hundred' and fifty are sick of- fever. It is pro-' posed to land and .fumigate them. In the case. -"iTne" Vagabond v. Thompson, defamation, damages £10,000, a verdict was given for a shilling.

.;.-.-.■: • j ;;:=.:.;■; Feb. 12. Nothing'further.-has- been heard of the Kelljs. It'is supposed that they have returned ro Victoria. A number of police have been sent from Sydney to assist the troopers. . ' \ .; ]'■ The Kellys traversed Uraha on "Friday incognito

,Troopers have been dispatched from Wagga in pursuit of 'ttie'Kellys. The telegraph wires are cut at Urana, where it is believed the Kellys have gone.

The.Assembly last night, declared the seat for Orange vacant,- owing to Mr Coombes having. accepted the. post of Executive Commissioner for the Colony at the Paris Exhibition, this being held to bej-an office of profit under the Grqyni. 'SIELB6uRKrB,Feb. 11.

The candidates foi^: West, Bourke are Messrs Harper, Deakin, Gaunsony and Healey.