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[centred Gothic-print letterhead] The Melbourne Atheneaum.
Melbourne ........... 6... Sep^r........1880...

My dear Onslow

Excuse my writing on this
paper while I am detained in
Town for a meeting at this place,
and to save time do not walk up to the
Club and back. Thank you very much
for the trouble you have so kindly taken
about the Deniliquin trial.

The
letter of M^r Williams gives me full
information. I suspected that the
bail bonds were not enforced and
M^r Williams accounts for it sufficiently,
as they had the corpus of the criminal.

Of course the fellow wanted to escape
from the country. Oddly enough in the
same year 1876 a sub-inspector of Police
in Queensland was committed for trial for
a brutal murder of a black-boy:—
a Supreme Court Judge took bail for
him, the trial was not to take place
for several months and the fellow
ran away. I wrote to Palmer the
Col Sec: the other day about it, and he
tells me that the fellow has never
been heard of since.