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The British Society of Australian Philately Founded 1933

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CONTINUING RESEARCH ON THE GV 1D VARIETIES (Part 42) by Gordon Monk; Bert Wajer and Paull Kaigg ……………………………… .………………………… .…… ..…… .1 QUERY 766 AUGUST 1945 JAMAICA – SYDNEY. HOW DID IT GET THERE? By Colin Tabeart ……………… ..………………………………………………………………… ..6 FEEDING THE GOLDFIELDS IN THE 1890S – THE ADELAIDE ESPERANCE LINK By Colin Tabeart…………………………………………………………………………...………8 MAIL ROBBERIES BY ARMED BUSHRANGERS IN AUSTRALIA Part 2 By Brian R Peace ………………………………………………………………………………… ..13 A NEW SOUTH AUSTRALIA TAX MARK by Patrick Reid ……… . …….……...……. …….24 A NEW EARLY DATE FOR THE VICTORIA 20 CENTIME TAX MARK by Patrick Reid …… .………………………… .…… ...……………………………………………25 FROM THE EDITOR ………………………………………………………………………...…..25 ISSN 0953 – 5578 VOLUME 72 NUMBER 1 February 2017

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2292. CONTINUING RESEARCH ON THE GV 1D VARIETIES (Part 42) by Gordon Monk; Bert Wajer and Paull Kaigg (1727

Pane 5 # 28 1st State Normal 2nd State July 1914 (2nd half 1st printing) - Final 2a Cross. Top of cross slightly dished on 38% of

sample, variable. 2b Top Frame. Abrupt curve on inner edge of frame

left of the right v-scroll on 38% of sample, variable. 2c Bottom Frame. Abrupt curve on inner edge of

frame just to the right of Y of Penny on 63% of sample, variable.

At the end of the print run faint compartment marks

appear see 2d, e, and f. 2d Left Frame. Faint compartment marks between

L55 and L86, inconstant. 2e Top Right Corner. Two faint compartment marks

over TF at TRC, inconstant. 2f Right Frame. Faint compartment marks between

R32 and R64, inconstant. Illustrations enhanced for printing purposes. Notes Only collectable in multiples without flaws 2d, e, and f. Issued April 2016 587. A

Pane 5 # 37 1st State 7 to 18 July 1914 (1st half of 1st printing) 1a Bottom Right Corner. Protrudes to right, proof flaw. 2nd State 28 July 1914 (2nd half of 1st printing) – Violets 1a as before.

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Pane 5 # 41 1st Proof – Reds 1a Left Frame. Shaved into TLC from 1

mm below. 1b Bottom Frame. Thinner than normal. 1c Top Right Corner. One or two

compartment dots appear off the corner in mid print run, variable.

1d Right Frame. Compartment marks

appear between R57 and R66 in mid print run. As the run progresses more marks appear until they go from R36 to R114, variable. Rare in green printings.

1e Bottom Right Corner. One or two

compartment dots appear off the corner in mid print run and as the run progresses they tend to merge together, variable.

1f Left Frame. At the end of the print run

compartment marks appear between L 30 and L77, variable.

1g Bottom Left Corner. At the end of the

print run a compartment mark appears on LF just above BF.

2nd State Reds – Final

1a no longer present see 2a. 1b to 1e as before 2a Top Left Corner. Blunted. Notes. There are other units with a corner similar to flaw 2a. Issued Jun 2010. Revised Jul 2016 1f, 1g added.

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QUERY 766 AUGUST 1945 JAMAICA – SYDNEY. HOW DID IT GET THERE?

From Colin Tabeart (1806)

The datestamps on this cover read: Kingston Jamaica Registered 20 Aug New York 22 Aug 1945 Honolulu 24 Aug 1945 Sydney 30 Aug 45 Sydney 3 Sep 45 Perth 5 Sep 45.

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similar offence by the Burrangong Bench two months previously. On 28 March 1863 at the Goulburn Circuit Court, Madden was tried for having on 14 October 1862 (it was the 15th – BP), while armed, robbed George Hunter of five shillings. He was discharged for lack of evidence.

Rear of a portion of the above waybill for registered letters with manuscript endorsements:

Lambing Flat

Recovered from/Murrumburrah/Mail robbery

This waybill, which had been sent from Yass to Lambing Flat on 12 October, was received at the latter office on 13 October. In accordance with Post Office regulations the waybill was then returned to Yass by the next Mail, which happened to be robbed on the 15th. Three Armed Robberies for which Related Ephemera Survives a) John McIntyre alias John Smith alias Cursed Jack and the Singleton Mail Robbery: 10 August

1864 John McIntyre, like so many of his peers, met his end on a hangman’s rope. He committed at least seven mail robberies over a twenty-seven month period either alone or with one of at least three partners. His seventh and final attack on the Mail was on 10 August 1846. For his final attack McIntyre teamed up with John Rideout, a self-styled itinerant veterinary surgeon, to stick up the Singleton to Maitland Mail on 10 August 1846. They came up on either side of the mail coach one mile on the Singleton side of Black Creek, presented pistols and made the driver, John Lumley, and the only passenger, Mr Griffin, dismount. Lumley was obliged to take out the mail bags and place them on the ground. The driver was asked how much money he had and when he proffered one shilling it was declined, as was two shillings from Mr Griffin. Lumley was then ordered to drive on, the letter bags from Singleton for East and West Maitland and Sydney being taken. Thomas Hope, Postmaster at Singleton since 1 January 1844, wrote to the Postmaster General James Raymond on 11 August:

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“I beg to inform you the mail between here and Maitland was stopt about one mile this side of Black Creek on its way to Maitland yesterday the 10th Inst. by two armed men and the mail bags taken. There was three letters containing cash, one of my own containing the enclosed orders and cheques, about the same sum of Mr Thos Cullens and abt. £17.0.0 of a Mr Craddocks. I have despatchd two parties to endeavour to recover the Bags and any letters they may find. Mr Munro the contractor has also gone to endeavour to recover the Bags etc. I will let you know the result when they return by the next post”

OHMS entire from Singleton 11 August 1846 to James Raymond, Postmaster General with red boxed

FREE Unfortunately the bushrangers were not located, and on 14 August Thomas Hope also wrote to the Colonial Secretary’s Office to appraise them of the situation and ask if a reward would be offered by the government. The reply, dated 18 August, reads as follows: Sir, I do myself the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 14th Instant, reporting the robbery of the Mail from Singleton, in its transmission from thence to Maitland by two armed bushrangers, on the 10th Instant, about one mile from Black Creek, and in reply I am directed by His Excellency the Governor to inform you that a Notice will be published in this day’s Government Gazette, offering a Reward of £15 to any free person, or a Second Class Conditional Pardon to any Convict who shall give such information as shall lead to the apprehension of the guilty parties. I have etc The Notice duly appeared in the NSW Government Gazette in the issues dated 18, 21 and 25 August and 1 and 8 September 1846 even though McIntyre and Rideout had been captured on 14 August.

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these numbers with those of notes received from his two guests he found that some corresponded and immediately went to the police station. The bushrangers were in one of the outhouses at the rear of the inn and Perfrement and Constable Barker found McIntyre there. In arresting him a fierce struggle ensued with McIntyre attempting to get his pistol, however by striking him heavily with his fist Constable Barker subdued and then tied him. Rideout was found asleep in another hut and captured without resistance. Both were tried in Maitland with McIntyre receiving the death sentence and Rideout being sent to penal servitude. b) John Foster alias Clarke and The Lapstone Hill Mail Robbery: 11 March 1864 The coach from Bathurst and Hartley to Sydney was stuck up at Lapstone Hill near Penrith at about 2.15 am on 11 March 1864. William Orbell, the driver, was galloping down Lapstone Hill about one mile from Emu Plains and was at the bridge where there was a sharp turn in the road when, as the lights of Penrith came into view some four miles distant, he was ordered to stop by three armed men. He was told if he did not stop his brains would be blown out and he therefore pulled up, extinguished the coach lights as instructed and the bushrangers unharnessed the horses and sent them back in the other direction. There were seven passengers in the coach, two of these were females one of whom was escorting the other to the Lunatic Asylum; they were allowed to remain seated. The others were Constable Michael Duffy, Daniel Mackay, and three Chinamen: Ah Lang, storekeeper Muckerawa Diggings and Ah Yung and Ah Huff, Diggers. The constable was carrying a single-barrelled pistol but decided not to use it and this was taken by the robbers; he had been suspended from duty and was still under suspension at the time of Foster’s trial. Mackay, who had joined the coach at Hartley and was on the box seat, was robbed of one sovereign and a pocket handkerchief, Ah Lang of £400 in notes, Ah Yung of £50 in notes and Ah Huff of £50 in notes. The bushrangers then took out the mail bags, cut them open and ransacked the letters using the light from the lamps they had removed from the coach to inspect the letters and parcels. Their total haul was well over £1,000. They departed, warning the driver to wait half an hour before proceeding. The mail bags and remnants of letters were collected up. After the allotted time Orbell caught the horses, with difficulty, re-harnessed them and drove on to Penrith from where the passengers and mail bags were forwarded to Sydney by train. Foster was arrested the following night, 12 March, in Sydney, tried on 6 April and found guilty; being sentenced to ten years hard labour on the roads. It turned out he had only been two months out of gaol for larceny. This was Foster’s one and only mail robbery. A man named George Gibson alias Paddy Tom alias Carrington alias Paddy alias Tom was arrested as being one of the perpetrators of this robbery but was tried for murder which eclipsed this offence (see also 640814). Gibson was arrested in Queensland in February 1865, tried at Bathurst Circuit Court on 15 April, found guilty of murder and hanged on 20 May 1865. Later, on the day of the robbery, the following exchange took place in the Legislative Assembly of the NSW Parliament:

Mr LUCAS (without notice) asked the Colonial Secretary whether it was true that the Western mail was robbed last night? MR W FORSTER, in reply, said the Western mail was robbed yesterday afternoon, at Lapstone Hill, by four armed men, but unfortunately the information communicated to the police was by two Chinamen, who could not speak English, and he understood that these were the only passengers. The information was not so complete as might be desirable. The mail bags, and