Changes

'''''' Apropos of the bushrangers, the Sydney Echo of November 15 says -"It will be interesting to watch the operations of the Victorian police system, and see if it will compare favourably with that of [[NSW police|this colony]]. Here success in effecting the capture of criminals seems to arise from the fact of the police identifying themselves very closely with the habits of the people they move amongst and so close has this course been followed that a sergeant of police, either in the country or the city, is generally an encyclopaedia of biographies of all the people round him. This does not appear the case with the Victorian troopers some of whom are being sent long distances into a strange locality to trap the Kellys and   their confederates. Such a proceeding places them at a greater disadvantage than the police here ever laboured under. They have not yet discovered the trail of the murderers, and a great many efforts appear to be made to prevent their carrying out the ends of justice. Here the police ferreted out Gibson, who shot Sergeant Wallings from amongst his confederates, and had such a chase of 300 miles after him as would have delighted the Victorian police. It is to be hoped success will speedily attend the exertions being made to capture the Kelly gang; and it would be gratifying to know that some of the New South Wales police had a hand in securing the ruffians. This may not be possible, unless the gang cross the border, in which case it may, from former experiences, be imagined they will be speedily run to earth.