THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1878.

Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3066, 12 December 1878, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1878.

The recent acts of lawlessness perpetrated by the Kelly gang in Victoria, which hare led to the outlawry of the gang and their taking to the bush as determined bushrangers, have aroused a feeling of insecurity amongst residents of scattered districts which nothing but ! the arrest of the offenders and the administration of condign punishment will allay. The dastardly crimes of which the Kellys and their confederates hare been guilty are not the greatest evils inflicted upon the public. Their example is likely to hare a very bad effect Upon the criminally disposed who haye hitherto been restrained from overt acts of crime by their dread of puniihment; but should th« police not be jyceeiiful io diipeniag or oipturing the

principals very soon, past experience leads to the belief that the crowd will be Strengthened by accessions to their ranks of men and mere youths to whom bushranging holds out inducements as a pursu'thaving in it some of that novelty, and adventure which have induced so many imitators of Dick Turpin and Jack Sheppard. The Kelly gang, from their recent achievements, may be supposed to be making their way to the Murray, to cross into Hew South Wales, their latest butragas being the robbery of a bank of a considerable sum of money in gold and notes, and the sticking up of a homestead near Beech worth, after the manner of their prototype, Morgan. We coidially hope that the next news will record the capture of the gang, alive or dead, and the restoration of a feeling of security in the districts in which these desperadoes have for some time been a terror.