CHIEF POST-OFFICE.

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 402, 25 April 1871, Page 2

CHIEF POST-OFFICE.

Mails will close as under

For Thames, this day, at 4.30 p.m. and 5.30 p.m., and to-morrow, at 11.30 a.m., 4.30 p.m. and 5.30 p.m.

For Napier and Gisborae, per Star of the South, tin's flay, at 3 p.m. Late letters and telegrams for transmission from the Napier stati >n will be received at. t.hu office till 3.30 p.m.

For Tryphena, Great Barrier, per Sen. Bird,

this day, at 5 p.m. For Tiiirua, per Janet Grey, to-morrow, at 10

For Wangarei ITon/ls, etc., per Duke of

Edinburgh, on Thursday, 27fh inst., at 2

p.m. For Sydney and Australian Colonies, per s.s. Hero, dn Saturday, 29th inst., at 9 a.m

Late letters for Sydney and Melbourne will

be received till 9.30 a.m. Note. —Post-offices have been opened at North

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 postage collected in New Zealand on such correspondence will pay for its conveyance as far only nst Alexandria. These rales are as follow : —Lottery not exceeding half an ounce, Gd. ; every additional half an ounce, fid. Newspapers Id. each. Books and pattern parcels not exceeding four ounces, 4d. ; four ounces to eight ounces, Bd.; erery ndditional eight ounces, Sd. The weight of pattern pai-eels must not exceed eight ounces.

S. JJ. J3iss, Chief Postmaster