CHIEF POST-OFFICE.

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 400, 22 April 1871, Page 2

CHIEF POST-OFFICE.

Mails will close as under :— Eor Thames, this day, at 3.30 p.m., and on

Monday, 24th inst., at 4 p.m. and 5.30 p.m. For Newcastle, N.S.W., per Cbrishna, this day, at 5 p.m. For Kapanga, &c, per Lalla Rookh, on Mon-

day, 24th inst., at 11 a.m. For Wangarei Heads, etc., per p.s. Duke of Edinburgh, on Monday, 24th inst., at 11

For Taranaki and Southern Provinces per s.s. Taranaki, on Tusday, 25th inst., at 10 a.m. Late letters and telegrams for transmission from the Nelson Station will be received at

this office till 10.30 a.m., and at Onehunga till 11.30 a.m. Note.—Post-offices have been opened at Nortli

Omauharo and Tryphena, Great Barrier. Note.—Correspondence for Belgium may in future be addressed to be sent by the Suez route via Brindisi direct. The rates of postago collected in New Zealand on such correspondence will pay for its conveyance as far only as Alexandria. These rates are as follow: —Letters not exceeding half an ounce, 6d.; every additional half an ounce, 6d. Newspapers Id. each. Books and pattern parcels not exceeding four ounces, 4d. ; four ounces to eight ounces, Bd.; every additional eight ounces, Bd. Tho weight of pattern parcels must not exceed eight ounces.

S. B. Biss, Chief Postmaster.