THE STORY OF THE KELLY GANG.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3769, 30 July 1907, Page 3

THE STORY OF THE KELLY GANG.

To-morrow Night.

This wonderful series of pictures, after an exceptionally successful and extended tour of Australia and New Zealand, are to be presented at the Public Hall, to-morrow (Wednesday) evening, for the one performance. In a short resume of the film which will no doubt prove of interest to our readers, a Sydney “daily ’’ remarks : “ The story opens with a picture of the Kelly homestead, where Kate, who has overheard the trorpers discussing the warrant for Dan’s arrest on a charge of cattle stealing, warns her brother, and who, when the troopers arrive, is insulted by one of the officers, whom Ned shoots Jn the wrist. The brothers then escape, the officer in question being held at bay by Kate with a loaded revolver. Following this, are pictures of the police in camp on the Wombat ranges, the surprise, the shooting of Kennedy and Scanlon, and the escape of MTntyre; the bushrangers are next seen sticking up Younghusbands’ station ; then there is the robbing of the bank at Euroa, the pursuit by the police of Kate Kell}', the blacktrackers in the Strathlogic ranges, the shooting of Aaron Sherritt, and the spectacle of the panic-stricken police under the bed ; in the succeeding scenes the bushrangers are shown at the inn at Glenrowan, from which the schoolmaster (Curnow) hurries to the railway to stop the pilot engine and save the train ; the arrival of the police at the inn, and the flight for life ; the deaths of Joe Byrne, Steve Hart, and Dan Kelly, and the capture of Ned Kelly in his suit of armour. These and many other incidents in the life of the gang are depicted, and a series of miscellaneous films make up an interesting exhibition.” The box plans are now open at Mr J. T. Levett’s Book Arcade.