CHIEF POST-OFFICE.

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 318, 16 January 1871, Page 2

CHIEF POST-OFFICE.

Mailu will close as under :—

For Thames, this day, at 5 p.m., and to-mor

row, at 8.30 a.m., 1.30 p m., and 5.30 p.m. For Mongonui, per Ivanhoe, to-morr ,w, at

9.3' a.m. For Tauranga, via Thnmcs, this day, at 5 p m.,

an«i to morrow, at 1.30 p.m. and 5.30 p.m. For Whitiangi. per Mary Kllen, this clay, at 5

p.m. For St. Andrews, per Rob Roy, this day, at 5

p.m. For Ktpanga, Driving Creek, and Tiki, per

Challenger, this day. at, 5 p.m. For Tauranga and Op;>tiki, per Sannon, to-

morrow, at 11.30 a.m. For Napier, por Go-Ahead, to-morrow, at 3 p.m. Late letters and telegrams for transmission from tho Napier Station will be received till 3.30 p.m

For liji. per Wainui, on Thursday, 19th in3t.,

at 11.30 a.m. For Tauranga, per C-G. p.s. Luna, this day, at

6.30 p.m. Note.—Closed mailj for letters and telegrams will be made up at this office daily for Tauranga, overland via Thames. Hours will be

notified,

Note.—The rates of postage in New Zealand to be charged on correspondence to the United Kingdom, via Marsei les and Brindisi are asfollows:—Letters notexceeding half-an-ouncc, Is. 3d.; not exceeding one ounce, 2s. 6d. ; and so on, Is. 3d. for every a ditional half ounce, or fraction thereof. Newspapers under four ounces each, 4d. Books and pattern parcels not exceeding one ounce, 21. j not exceeding two ounces, 4d. ; not exceeding four ounces, 7d.; not exceeding eight ounces, Is. 2d. ; and so on, la. 2d. for every additional eight ounces &r fraction thereof.

S. B. Bias, Chief Postmaster.