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Manawatu Times, Volume IV, Issue 89, 13 November 1880, Page 2

l tike his last farewell ot a chosen few, but these mournful and trying ordeals are by no means calculated to inspire bravado, but rather to wring the heart of the unfortunate victim with anguish at the thought of what he has lost. Telegrams inform us that Kklly was hanged at Pentric'ge, and if so that will be the first execution which has taken place within its walls. The penal prison of Pentridge is tho great receiving house for that _ mass of criminal humanity whose misdeeds have consigned them to imprisonment for lengthened periods or for life, but hitherto all condemned felons were conveyed from fhe Supreme Covert where sentence was pronounced to the Melbourne Gaol, which is immediately at the rear, and there the last dread sentence was cariiod into effect. The fates of the bushrangers of Australia should not prove a very strong incentive to colonial youths to follow m their wake — their lives have been— in defiance of that false halo of romance with which some would surround them — a series of privations and sufferings ; their deaths surrounded with obloquy and ignominy.™ Hall, Gilbert, Low by, Moegan, Thunderbolt, and the greater portion of the Kelly gans ere hunted to death, and shot down like the ravenous tigers which they resembled ; the two Clakks, Dunn, Burke, Ned Ktclly, and a host of others were hanged like so many dogs, while the so-called Bayard of the Bush, the gallant, dashing Fhank Gaedinbk, died a dissipated drunken sot m California, with not a trace of his former manhood. The last scene m the dark tragedy has close i, the curtain has fallen and while his bones are rotting insirlo a prison wail, the memory of Ned Eblly and his misled associates shall be execrated as the cold-bkodi'd slayers of the heroic Kennedy and his companions.