CHIEF POST-OFFICE.

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 353, 25 February 1871, Page 2

CHIEF POST-OFFICE.

"For Thames, "this day, ac * p.m., and on Monday, 27th instant, at 10.30 a.m., 4 p.m. and 5.30 p.m. For Tauranga, via Thames, this day, at 4 p.m. For Kapanga, &c, per Lalla Rookh, on Monday, 27th inst., at 1 p.m. For Sydney and the Australian Colonies, per s.s. Hero, on Monday, at 2 p.m. Late letters for Sydney and Melbourne wil! be received at this office till 2.30 p.m. For Russell and Kawakawa, per Comerang, on Monday, at 3 p.m. For Wangarei Heads, &c, per Duke of Edinburgh, on Wednesday, Ist March, at 3 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, Biitish 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, Eegistered Letters, and Newspapers, at 11 a.m. Late letters for the United States of Amei'ica, and United Kingdom, bearing a late fee of 6d. in addition to the postage, will be received at this office, til 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 the United Kingdom, via Brindisi, will in the future be as follows : —Lotters : Not exceeding -J-oz., 9d.; exceeding £oz. and not exceeding loz., Is. 6d.; and so on—9d for every additional or fraction of \oz. Newspapers : 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 20z,. 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.