/library/oar/handle/123456789/63534 Fri, 31 Oct 2025 22:26:32 GMT 2025-10-31T22:26:32Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/63700 Title: Journal of the Malta Philatelic Society : no. 45(1) : April 2016 Editors: Bonnici, Alfred Abstract: Table of contents: 1/ DE BATTISTA, J. V. - Ala Littoria air mail service : the Savoia-Marchetti S.66 (I-NAVE c/n 15014) crash -- 2/ DE BATTISTA, J. V. - The language of stamps -- 3/ CARUANA RUGGIER, A. - Works of art by Ganni Bonnici in philately -- 4/ BONELLO, G. - Stamped covers to Malta from pre-unification Italian states -- 5/ GANADO, A. - The farthing negative mark of the 1920s -- 6/ GANADO, A. - World war 1 censorship marks -- 7/ BONNICI, A. - Maltese falcons : Grand Masters letters to the king of the two Sicilies -- 8/ DE BATTISTA, J. V. - The 1916 Maltese emigrants' incident : the story behind the Gozo Philatelic Society and the Philatelic Society of Canberra Inc. : joint first centenary anniversary commemoration -- 9/ DE BATTISTA, J. V. - Postal diary : 21st August 2015 - 24th November 2015. Fri, 01 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/63700 2016-04-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/63628 Title: Postal diary : 21st August 2015 - 24th November 2015 Abstract: The official diary of the Journal of the Malta Philatelic Society covering the period of 21st August 2015 - 24th November 2015. This section contains chronological facts related to the postal services in Malta including the opening and closing of sub-post offices, commemorative handstamps and cancellations issued for special occasions, issues of new stamps, MaltaPost press releases and other philatelic miscellanea. Fri, 01 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/63628 2016-04-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/63627 Title: The 1916 Maltese emigrants' incident : the story behind the Gozo Philatelic Society and the Philatelic Society of Canberra Inc. : joint first centenary anniversary commemoration Abstract: The protagonists of the episode, who later became referred to as the "Billy Hughes Children", became embroiled in Australia's racial, political and moral turbulence through the application of the 'dictation test' - Australia's principal method of excluding unwanted migrants during the first decades of the twentieth century. The Maltese, including a disproportionate number from the Gozitan hamlet of Santa Lucija, had boarded the French Messageries Maritimes mail-boat "Gange" in Malta bound for Australia, scheduled to arrive in Melbourne (en route to Sydney) on 28th October - the day of a referendum to impose conscription in Australia. [excerpt] Fri, 01 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/63627 2016-04-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/63626 Title: Maltese falcons : Grand Masters letters to the king of the two Sicilies Abstract: Malta was donated to the Hospitallers by King Charles V of Spain in 1530, after the fall of Rhodes on 21 December 1522, when Suleyman the Magnificent allowed them to leave Rhodes on the 1st January 1523 with full Military Honours, led by the G.M. Philippe de Villiers de l'Isle Adam, taking all their belongings - Archives, work of art etc, accompanied by some three hundred Rhodiots - Latin and Greek. They stayed in Europe for eight years, when Pope Clement VII established their Convent at Viterbo where they had their magistral palace, a conventual church, a hospital and the auberges for the Langues. In 1527 plague forced them out of Viterbo sailing to Corneto and on to Nice, and this delay (1523-27) may be attributed in part to forces independent of the Order's crisis. There were three major problems confronting Christendom at this particular point in time. [excerpt] Fri, 01 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/63626 2016-04-01T00:00:00Z