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We intend if possible to have the honour of capturing the Kelly gang, and the Sydney steamer which left on last Saturday took Inspector [[O'Connor|O'Connor]] and some black troopers who have seen several years' service in Northern Queensland , protecting miners and squatters from the Myalla, and occassionally punishing the latter severely. He is a good officer, and discriminates between "niggers and "niggers," which not all [[Police Trackers|native police]] officers do. He has had the hardihood to enter into conferences and treaties with the Myalla, and to tell them they should not be harmed by his "demons," while they spared the settlers and did not spear their cattle. For this he is by many accounted a visionary, but at any rate he has been the man selected at the desire of the New South Wales and Victorian Governments, to render help in running down the outlaws whose non capture for so long a time is a disgrace to Australia. His second in command is Constable King, a native of Queensland , and so skilled in bush craft as to be himself a match for a Myalla. Six black trackers accompany them, trained human sleuth hounds, who have served with O'Connor for years, and will do his bidding with as little hesitation as hand-reared mastiffs. They may be shot down, but they will scent the Kellys miles away, and while life lasts they will never leave the trail. Its bloody work and hazardous, but the peace and credit of the colonies demands that it shall be done, and these men will do it if not anticipated by the Victorian police, which looks unlikely.