Australian History

[DrDuck]

Mate, what a good question. Was it the introduction of the THE MARTINI HENRY BREECH LOADING RIFLE, which was a revolution in technology and was brought into service in the 1870s? It was much faster and it moved away from the use of powder and ball to a bullet. This firearm was used to fight the last of the bushrangers, the Kelly brothers in Victoria and the Governor brothers in NSW

 

[B5MECH]

Mate, what a good question. Was it the introduction of the THE MARTINI HENRY BREECH LOADING RIFLE, which was a revolution in technology and was brought into service in the 1870s? It was much faster and it moved away from the use of powder and ball to a bullet. This firearm was used to fight the last of the bushrangers, the Kelly brothers in Victoria and the Governor brothers in NSW

Or the law that was passed to leagalise killing of bushrangers? I guess it would be called the WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE era :|

 

[Balmain Bob]

Sorry Duck, Dr Duck and B5MECH,
You are all incorrect,
Clue.

The answer isnt in Wikapedia.

I stand by my last post.

This will give it away. Moon

 

[DrDuck]

Captain Moonlight was in goal between 1872 and 1879, but that does not fit your original clue exactly...

 

[DrDuck]

Incidentally, it looks like the Captain was a gay bushranger, not that there is anything wrong with that!

https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2015/november/1446296400/jeff-sparrow/queer-bushranger

 

[Balmain Bob]

Gday DrDuck

Captain Moonlight is one of the pieces to solving this question but has nothing to do with the with the answer . As you state, the Captain was in gaol at the time.

cheers

Bob

 

[Balmain Bob]

Next clue.
the Stringybark Creek murders

 

[greencheeks77]

Are you looking for an answer like when Kelly Boys and the others were fired upon at Stringybark creek and Dan was made to shoot the coppers as well so everyone there had a part and was therefore responsible, and the time between then and 1878 was the years they pursued them throughout the rugged ridges and gully's of the local mountain rangers hiding out in caves and avoiding capture..

 

[Balmain Bob]

The answer I seek has nothing to do with the capture of Captain Moonlight or the Murders at Stringybark Creek as such. Its the dates of these 2 events that are of importance and what occurred or didn't occur between them.

That should provide the answer

 

[Rockhunter62]

Ellen Kelly (Ned's Mum) and George King were together for this period. That's all I can find. :lol:

Cheers

Doug

 

[Balmain Bob]

Its a very hard question .

Something did or did not occur between June 1872 and April 1878 that has to do with bushranging in Australia.

 

[Rockhunter62]

No bushrangers were caught in this period.

Doug

 

[Balmain Bob]

Ill give it to you Doug

The reason that no bushrangers we caught between June 1872 and April, 1878 is that Australia was bushranger free.

 

[Rockhunter62]

Gee thanks Bob, that was just a stab in the dark. The daughter is having a "How to host a murder" party tonight so I will try to post a question shortly.

Doug

 

[Balmain Bob]

Here is a link to where I found some of the information of Australia being bushranger free

CHAPTER XXVIII.

Captain Moonlite; The "Reverend Gentleman" Robs the Bank, and Nearly Makes his Escape; He Breaks out of Ballarat Gaol; He Becomes a Reformed Character; He Sticks Up Wantabadgery Station; A Desperate Battle with the Police; Moonlite is Captured; His Young Companions in Crime; Sentenced to Death; The Wild Horse Hunters Turn Bushrangers; An Abortive Attempt to Rob a Bank.
From about June, 1872, to April, 1878, or nearly six years, Australia was free from bushrangers. With the exception of the two or three robberies in the far west of New South Wales, so far west as to be almost out of the colony, the roads were safe; travellers journeyed in all directions without fear of molestation; and the public, as well as the authorities, began to congratulate themselves once more on having at length definitely stamped out the scourge of bushranging. Since the shooting of Thunderbolt and the capture of Power, there had been no sign of a recrudescence of the crime, and bushranging was beginning to be referred to as belonging to a past age.

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks12/1201551h.html

Also by studying time lines on bushranging there is no mention of bushrangers being active between the dates stated

 

[Rockhunter62]

Here goes folks, I hope I have not made the question too easy or too hard.

I'm pretty old, some say I am the oldest. Simpson drinks me when I am available. What am I.

Cheers Folks

Doug

 

[RM Outback]

Water

 

[backcreek]

Duff Beer. hehehe

 

[Rockhunter62]

RM Outback you are on the right path as was Harold.

Doug

 

[DrDuck]

Maybe not completely bushranger free during that period, Bob:

Saturday 30th May 1874:
Bushranging Revival Feared
-Authorities fear a revival in bushranging after the stick-up of the Mudgee mail coach yesterday. The coach was travelling with six passengers and the mail from Mudgee to Wallerawang when two armed men bailed up the driver Mr Charles Mortimer said their faces were covered with cloth and they wore canvas bags over their clothing in order to disguise themselves. They ordered the passengers out of the coach onto the side of the road and demanded they empty their pockets of all money. One female passenger, by the name of Miss Power, offered her money to the bushrangers but they refused. The male passengers provided about 7 in cash. A gun was fired, but all agreed it was an accident as the bushranger was not aiming at anyone.
With seven mail bags and the cash, the bushrangers told Mr Mortimer to drive on or they would 'blow the roof off his bloody head off.' The robbery was reported in Illford and when the police returned to the scene of the crime, they found the seven mail bags cut open and the letters scattered everywhere.