The gang of bush-rangers appeared in the vicinity of Black Brush on Saturday, and were tracked on the following morning by Serjeant M’Carthy, of the 46th, with his party.  On Monday the bush-rangers were at a house at Tea-tree Brush, where they had dined, and about three o’clock Serjeant M’Carthy with his party came up.  The bush-rangers ran out of the house into the woods, and being eleven in number, and well covered by timber and ground, the eight soldiers could not close with them.  After a good deal of firing, Geary the leader was wounded, and fell; two others were also wounded.  The knapsacks of the whole and their dogs were taken.  Geary died the same night, and his corpse was brought into town on Tuesday, as were the two wounded men.

The remaining eight bush-rangers were seen in the neighbourhood of the Coal River on Wednesday; but, as they must have been destitute of provisions and ammunition, sanguine hopes were entertained of their speedy fall.

Dennis Currie and Matthew Kiegan, two of the original bush-rangers, surrendered on the Monday following.

On Wednesday, a coroner’s inquest was held on the body of James Geary, who died of the wound received in the affair at Tea-tree Brush.  Verdict, Homicide in furtherance of public justice.

Jones, a principal of the banditti, was shot in the beginning of August, in the neighbourhood of Swanport, which is on the eastern shore.  For some days they had not been heard of; but by the extraordinary exertions of Serjeant M’Carthy and his party of the 46th regiment, were tracked and overtaken at the above place; on which occasion Jones was killed on the spot by a ball through the head.  A prisoner of the name of Holmes was by the bush-ranger’s fire, wounded in two places, but we do not hear mortally.

On the Sunday evening after the above affair, some of the villains effected a robbery at Clarence Plains; but became so excessively intemperate from intoxication as to quarrel among themselves; the consequence was, that another of the gang of the name of Rollards, having been most severely bruised and beaten by his associates fell into the hands of a settler, and was by him taken a prisoner into Hobart Town.  White and Johnson, two others of the gang, were apprehended by Serjeant M’Carthy’s party, on Thursday the 14th of August, being conducted to their haunts by a native woman, distinguished by the name of Black Mary, and another girl.

After the above successes in reducing the number of these persons, some of them still continued out, on the 16th of August, as appears from a report published:  of the old bush-rangers, Septon, Collyer, Coine, and Brune, also Watts, who kept separate from the rest, and Michael Howe, who had before delivered himself up, and after remaining some weeks in Hobart Town, took again to the woods, from a dread, as was imagined, of ultimately being called to answer for his former offences.  At this period also, there were two absentees from George Town, Port Dalrymple; a number of the working hands having gone from that settlement shortly before, all of whom had returned to their duty but these two.  White, Rollards, and Peck, were about this time under a reward of sixty guineas for their apprehension, for an attempt to commit a robbery at Clarence Plains:  Peck was a freeman, the other two prisoners.