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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3109, 4 February 1879, Page 2

Some 200 men (says " Attieus" in the Leader) are employed in trying to capture the four youthful bushrangers, and still they are at large. I don't want to enquire whether the police and detectives are inefficient or whether the Kelly gang are too clever for them, but rather to contemplate the matter from a purely business aspect. "It is an ill wind that blows nobody good," and certainly the endeavour to capture the outlaws has financially benefited the district in which they are located. Money has circulated freely/and an impetus has been given to the trade of up country sleepy hollows. Of course, on the score of morality, the inhabitants of Benalla and Mansfield have no sympathy with tho evil deeds of the Kellys, but while attempts to take the bushrangers are accompanied by such an open handed expenditure of Govern ment money, from a business point of view they would not object to the presence of a couple of desperadoes in their midst all the year round. Why is a musical gamut like a gambling den P—Beeauee it is full of flats and •harps.