CHIEF POST-OFFICE.

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 351, 23 February 1871, Page 2

CHIEF POST-OFFICE.

Mails will close as under :— For Thames, this day, at 3.30 p.m., and 5.30 p.m., and to-morrow &t 10.30 a.m., 4 p.m., and 5.30 p.m. For Tauranga, via Thames, this day, at 3.30 p.m. For Taranaki, Nelson, and the Southern provinces, per s.s. Taranaki, to-morrow, 24th inst., at 11 a.m. Late letters and telegrams for transmission from the Nelson station, will be received at this office, till 11.30 a.m., and at Onehunga, till 12.30 p.m. For Russell and Kawakawa, per Comerpng, to-morrow, at 3 p.m. For Sydney and the Australian Colonies, per s.s. Hero, on Saturday, 25th instant, at 10 a.m. Late for Sydney and Melbourne only will be received at this office till 10.30 a.m. For Wangarei, tea., per p.s. Samson, on Saturday, 25th inst., at 5 p.m. Mails for the undermentioned places, per s.s. City of Melbourne, will close at this office, on Tuesday, 7th March, as follows :— For Sandwich Islands, British Columbia, United States of America, British, Central, and South America, British and Foreign West Indies, and Continent of Europe, via England, at 1 p.m. For United Kingdom via San Francisco, at 1 p.m. For Money Orders, Registered Letters, and Newspapers, at 11 a.m. Late letters for the United States of America, and United Kingdom, bearing a late fee of 6d. in addhion to the postage, will be received at this office, till 1.30 p.m., and by the mail agent on board the steamer up to time of sailing. The rates of postage to be charged in New Zealand on correspondence for tho United Kingdom, via Brindisi, will in the future bo as follows :—Letters : Not exceeding \oz., 9d.; exceeding Joz. and not exceeding loz., Is. 6d. ; and so on—9d for every additional or fraction of |oz. Newspapei-3 : Under 4oz. each, 4d. ; for every additional 4oz, 4d. Books and Pattern Parcels : Not exceeding loz., 2d.; exceeding loz. and not exceeding 20z., 4d.; exceeding 2oz. and not exceeding 40z., 7d.; exceeding 4oz. and not exceeding Boz., Is. 2d.; and so on—ls. 2d. for every additional Boz. or fraction of Boz. S. B. Biss, Chief Postmaster.