THE KELLY GANG.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 168, 15 July 1880, Page 2

THE KELLY GANG.

ADDITIONAL ITEMS. The Sydney papers to band contain various additional particulars respecting the recent exciting events at Glcnrowan. We extract the following: — A NEW ZEALAND VOLUNTEER JOINS IN TIIE ATTACK. Mr Charles Champion Ilawlina, of Benalla, who took bo prominent a part iv the capture of the Kellys, is a native of Waif s— the residence of his family being Grove Park, Wrexham, Denbighshire. He distinguished himself greatly iv the last New Zealand war, and earned much credit by the brave inuuner in which he on one occasion led a storming party. After leaving New Zealand he for some time resided in the Western district of Victoria, where he established himself as an all-round favorite. He now holds a small estate near Bfinalla, and was do doubt prompted to joiu Superintendent Hare iv his anti-Kelly expedition as much by his love of ad venture as by bis respect for law and order. He is a fine specimen of manhood, being very like Trickett iv build. PHOTOGRAPHING BYRNE'S BODT. During the forenoon the body of Byrne was brought out of the loci -up where it lay, and slung up in an erect position on the outside of the door, the object being to have it photographed by Mr Bur man of Melbourne. The features were composed in a natural way, and were easily recognised. The face was small, with retreating forehead, blue eyes, the upper lip covered* with a downy moustache, and a bushy beard covering his chin, whilst his hair had been recently cut. His figure is that of a tall, liihe young fellow. The Bpeclacle, however, was very repulsive. The bauds were clenched and covered with blood, whilst blood also covered bis clothes. The police soon had the body removed from the public gnze. The officers, policemen, trackers, and gentlemen who were there at the barracks, and who were present at the encounter, were also photographed in a group. KELLY OFFERS A REWARD TOR SULLIVAN. Constable Bracken gives an account of the proceedings in the hotel, and the dance which too 1 ! place on Sunday morning there, all the outlaws taking part in the festivity. Kelly called a man named Sullivan before him, and said, "I have Been you somewhere else; have you been in Wangaratta lately ? " Sullivan replied in the affirmative. Kelly then asked if be had ever been in New Zealand, and received a similar answer. " How long ngo," he next asked, and Sullivan replied " ten or twelve years ago." In answer to other questions, Sullivan said he was in New Zealand when the notorious murders were committed there by strangling, but denied that he was the Sullivan who turned Queen's evidence on his mates, and who is understood to be living in the district at present. Kelly said to me — "£BOOO has beeu offered for our capture. I promise to give you a similar amount if you tell me where that Sullivan is to be found, and the same amount as to where I can find Quinlan, the man who shot Morgan." No doubt all the gang had been drinking heavily on Sunday and Monday morniug. EXTRAORDINARY RUMOR It is rumored that in Ned Kelly's possession was found a pocket book, containing a number of letters, implicating persons iv good positions, and the name of one member of Parliament is mentioned. The authorities will give no information on the subject. \ Ned Kelly is said to be very anxious to see representatives of the Press, but no one ia allowed to see him. tf»»j»uAi m. i.i.i ti .iiiii iii ■ Ii ■ !i;»;v«I!H»HJBi!a;.Bg»SSBW'

During the debate on Mr Saunders' motion on Monday night, the House was very thin, and twice had to be "rung up." When 12.30 arrived, several members who had, earlier in the evening, entered a protest against late sittings, rose and left the chamber. There were then retnainiug only 15 members, and it was nearly five minutes before a bare quorum was got together. Thi3 (says the Fost) may be taken as an index of what will follow thci rescinding of the late rule for rising at 12.30 a.m. Dr. Wallis yesterday entered a'strbng' protest against the House sitting after 12.30 a.m. He said he would prefer a four, five, or six months' session and health to a short one and a debilitated constitution. The Government, he said, persisted in carrying the motion because of their brute Btrength. There were two classes in the House — those who were old and wise, and those who were young and learning to be wise. (Laughter.) The olfl and wise could not sit till two, three, or four o'clock in the morning, and the consequence would be the House and the country would be deprived of the benefit of the experience and wisdom of the "Older members of the Legislature, including himself. The House laughed a grim and doubting sort of laugh, but the doctor was seriojiis, and felt that he had scored a point. Ilia eloquence, hosvever, was Wasted on the desert air, for the motion was carried.— Past The following London telegrams appear in late Melbourne papers : — Internal disturbances have arisen in Morocco resulting in the rebillion of the natives against the Sultan's authority. An attempt made to suppress the outbreak failed. The troops or the Sultan were defeated, and Muley Hassan himself was obliged to fly from the capital. The general rising of the native population is attributed to the misery and desolation caused by mi9government of the colony. — The warlike attitude assumed by Turkey is causing great alarm, and it is feared it will lead to the reopening of the whole Eastern question. The Sultan, noting on the advice of Sulieman Pasha, is exhibiting a determination to rely on the fanaticism of the Mahometans. Instructions have been given for the mobilisation of tho nnny.and numbers of discharged soldiers have been ordered to rejoin their regiments, A London telegram -of . the 3rd instant says :— The Chinese have been victorious over the Russians in three consecutive" engagements, and have inflicted disastrous defeats upon them. The first and most important engagement took place at the Terek Pass, in the Little Alai Mountains, the range dividing Khokand or Ferghana, in Russian Turkestan, from the Chinese proviuce of Kashgar. At this Puss the Russians were completely defeated with heavy loss, and driven buck to their own territory. The Russian army then took up a positiou at Kizil Kurghan, a town on the main road from Kashgar. They were also repulsed from this position by the Chinese, and they then fell back upon a towu further north in Russian Turkestan called Gulsha. The Chinese,, following up their previous vie- * tories, lost no time in giving their opponents battle again, and for the third time were victorious. The shattered Russian army was last reported to be in full retreat northward. A Christchurch telegruin of Saturday says: — An extraordiuary case was heard at the Lyttelton Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday. A lad of fourteen, named Bradley, was charged with stealing some articles of clothing, valued at £3. The boy bore an excellent character, was treasurer of a Juvenile Good Templar Lodge, and had never had auy difficulty with his accounts. A large number of witnesses gave him a most exemplary character. The explanation given was that he was uuder the influence of his sister, a confirmed kleptomaniac, who was also charged with receiving the stoleu property. Her father said she had been so affected since she was 13 years of age. Dr Rous gave evidence to the effect that from what he had heard of the girl's career f ro.u her aunt, some few months since, he had no doubt she was suffering from kleptomania. An instance of that disease had been brought under his immediate notice a short time back. The disease appeared to him to be an utter destruction of the moral conscience. It presented several aspects,, and he was of opinion that it extended to prompting others to steal for the sake of possessing the object coveted. The desire of possession seemed to predominate over every feeling or conscience or feeling of right or wrong. It was also shown that the members of the family ,had to lock their personal property up to prevent the girl stealing it. Under the circumstances, the Bench adjourned the case for : consultation. . A French physician? has 'published a pamphlet showing the terrible " effects of smoking on the heart." But we have known more terrible effects to be produced on t c heart in five minutes by a little maiden in a calico dress than by twenty years of steady and untiring devotion to the weed. A San Francisco journal asks what has become of Edison, who was supposed to be on his way to California with his gold-saving machine. It adds, "So little ia now heard of the Edison light that it is beginning to be thought a thing of the past " The English Journal Society Btates that one of the latest -discoveries made is a manuscript ot St. Peter ! The London Bible Society is said to have offered £20,000 fot it, and it is in possession of the heirs of a man named Yore, who has recently died in Jerusalem at the patriarchal age of 109. It is stated that Mr Proctor, the astronomer, visited the Chinese quarters in Mcl bourne and speculated iv their lotteries, winning £21. This is a new phase of " Celestial " science. A correspondent of the Otago Daily Times thus describes his visit to the bacon curing establishment of Messrs Armour, of Chicago: — " When in full operation they have four distinct eets of machinery for killing and cutting up hogs, in which case they convert pigs into pork at the rate of between thirty or forty per minute. Only one set of machinery was in operation when I was there, but that was enough for my purpose. The hogs were together in a yard, where two men were doing nothing but put a chain round their bind legs. The next moment the hog is hung in the air. In this state of suspense they glided through a compartment where a man stood, dripping with blood from head to foot, doiug nothing all clay but plunge his knife iuto the pigs throat as they glided past. A little further on the chain was loosened, and the pig dropped into a cistern of boiling water. After he had remained there a minute, another machine lifted him out and laid him on a table. Here, was an apparatus of revolving knives, through which ho passed, coming out in a few aecouda scraped. He is then beheaded and befooted, and hi")g up by by the hind legs again. Next he is opened, cleaned, and generully finished off, after which, still hanging from : the J ceiling, he travels down a \ovg passage through the establishment, and takes his place with hundreds more quietly hanging in ithe same predicament. The whole process which I havo just described takes about seven minutes; and during those seven minutes about 300 pigs are similarly treated when the plaoe is in full working order. Of course my readers won't believe me,- but I cannot help that."