The Sydney Morning Herald : 1849

We would remind our readers that all letters posted after to-day will be liable to double postage, unless, in
the case of inland letters, the twopenny, and of ship-letters the threepenny rate is prepaid.
All newspapers will be charged a penny postage. The prepayment of letters will, it is
expected, become general. Postage stamps will also form a convenient means of remitting
small sums of money from one district to another. At present a person wishing to send
five or six shillings to a distant district has often considerable difficulty in doing so; but a
sheet of postage stamps, which will be equal to cash in any part of the colony, can be sent
with ease. It is quite common to see advertisements in English newspapers stating that
articles of light weight will be forwarded upon the receipt of a certain number of postage
stamps. —
"Sydney Morning Herald," December 31, 1849.

Rod! I can imagine someone in 1849 with a freshly printed Sydney Morning Herald sitting on the back porch having a cup of tea and reading the paper as usual but yelling out for the wife so she can hear how the modern world is growing so fast and what next will happen to change the way we live. Expressing that he does not agree with the changes taking place in the world. That these new things called stamps are taking the place of our money! What next!....... Maybe it could of been my great,great grandparents!

I was watching the documentary last evening KG5
"greatest cities in the world"
and Griff spoke about New York's first road accident
and how these new fangled "road machines" would ruin the world.

http://www.itv.com/PressCentre/Grif...default.html

Well they nearly got it right, but not the machines,
it was the oil they ran on.