13.1.1854 On the 3rd instant information was received at the Post Office Beechworth that the Sydney Mail which had left Beechworth on the 31st ultimo, had been stopped at Mullingandre by bushrangers and robbed. 18 registered letters had been sent frm Beechworth by the mail. The following notes have been stolen - 7 £50 P.O. notes drawn by John Taylor Manager of the Commercial Bank Sydney in favor of T.R. Hutchinson Agent for the bank at Beechworth; the numbers ran consecutively from 53 /74 to 53/83, and the whole of them have written legibly across the face "to the credit of the Honorable Colonial Treasurer, Sydney: also two ditto, ditto and marked in same manner, and numbered 53/87 and53/88. Its amazing how LITTLE is on the Gazette for the Beechworth/Ovens district. A couple regarding Albury, one for Kilmore but nothing in a 2 month span except the above for north east. Perhaps the police were having a hard time keeping up with it, to find time to report anything.