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` BUSH-RANGERS ! ` The announcement will strike our readers , if not with the most profound astonishment , certainly with considerable surprise , that these celebrated desperadoes , for whose apprehension such large sums have been offered , for whom the police in all the colonies have made such unremitting search , should have been discovered in our midst . Yet such is the case . On this very morning , from information received , our respected and efficient Inspector of Police , Sir Ferdinand Morringer , proceeded soon after midnight to the camp of Messrs. Clifford and Hastings . He had every reason to believe that he would have had no difficulty in arresting the famous Starlight , who , under the cognomen of the Honourable Frank Haughton , has been for months a partner in this claim . The shareholders were popularly known as `` the three Honourables '' , it being rumoured that both Mr. Clifford and Mr. Hastings were entitled to that prefix , if not to a more exalted one . ` With characteristic celerity , however , the famous outlaw had shortly before quitted the place , having received warning and been provided with a fast horse by his singular retainer , Warrigal , a half-caste native of the colony , who is said to be devotedly attached to him , and who has been seen from time to time on the Turon .