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reward · 1846

Colonial Secretary E. Deas Thomson notifies that on 12 June 1846 the mail from Queanbeyan, Bungendore and Braidwood was stopped about two miles from Boro by a man armed with a fowling piece and the Braidwood and Queanbeyan letter bags robbed; twenty pounds is offered to any free informer, or a Second Class Conditional Pardon to a prisoner of the Crown, for information leading to conviction. Mail robbery on the Southern Tablelands roads was endemic in the 1840s.

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WHEREAS it has been represented to the Government, that the Mail from Quean- beyan, Bungendore, and Braidwood, …

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New South Wales Government Gazette, No. 53, 30 June 1846.