On February 27th, 1869, Messrs. Perkins, Bacon & Co. sent out a consignment of 300 sheets (9,000 stamps) of the One Shilling. Their records note no difference between the colour of this stamp and that of the One Shilling of the last issue—they call them both “purple,” although the difference between them is really very great. We think the colour of the new stamp, which is very deep, is best described as “indigo.” The _Stamp Collector’s Magazine_, which chronicled it in July, 1869, calls it “dark muddy-blue”; the _Timbre-Poste_ of a month earlier, “_bleu-sale_”; but the colour really does not matter much, as there is no other stamp with which it can be confounded. If any shades of it exist they are certainly very slight, and probably due more to oxidation than to any other cause. It only exists with the B perforation. We do not know exactly the month of its issue, but since it was sent out late in February, and first chronicled in June, it most likely came into use some time in April. It is a much rarer stamp than the One Shilling of Issue 4, especially unused, but this is what we might expect to find when we consider that only 9,000 of it were printed, as against 15,000 of the first One Shilling. Issue 6. _September 1869._ 4d., deep bright yellow, slight shades. 1s., bright brown, slight shades. On August 13th, 1869, a consignment of stamps of two values—Four Pence and One Shilling—was sent out to the Colony by the printers, the colour of the Four Pence being altered from blue to yellow, and that of the One Shilling from indigo to brown. The consignment consisted of 300 sheets—9000 stamps—of each value. The One Shilling was the first of these to be chronicled in the philatelic periodicals. It was noticed in _Le Timbrophile_ of September 30th, 1869, and in the _Philatelist_ and the _Timbre-Poste_ of November, but the _Stamp Collector’s Magazine_ did not announce its appearance until the December number of that year. It is therefore certain that the issue of the One Shilling, brown, took place in September, and most probably the Four Pence, yellow, was issued at the same time, although the latter was not chronicled until November 30th, when it was noticed by _Le Timbrophile_, the other three above-mentioned periodicals not chronicling it until January, 1870.