CHIEF POST-OFFICE

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 403, 26 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 4.30 and 5 30 p.m. For Kapangu, per Lullii Koofch, to-morrow, at 9 a.m. For Wangatvi Heads, etc., per Duke of Edinburgh, to-morrow,, at 2 p.m. For Eussell and Kawakawa, per Coinerang, on Friday, 28ih inst., :it. 3 p.m. Mails for tl»e uiidirmenfioned places, per s.s. ITero, will close at this office, on Sulurday, 29th insfc., as follows : — For India, China, Mauritius, Mediterranean Ports, and Continent/ of Europe, at 8 a.m. For Australian Colonies, at 9 a.m. For United Kingdom via Suez and Southampton (for letters specially so addressed), at 9 a.m. For Money Orders and Registered Letters, at 5 p.m., 28th. inst. For Newspapers, at 7 a.m. For United Kingdom via Marseilles, and Brindisi, at 9.30 a.m. Late letters for Sydney, Melbourne, and United. Kingdom, Via Southampton, bearing 3d. and 6d. in addition to the postage, will be received till 9.30 a.m. Notg.^PostjoJEces 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 roule via Brindisi direct. The rates of postage collected in New Zealand on such correspondence will pay for its conveyance as far only as Alexandria. These rates are a9 follow : —Letters not exceeding half an ounce, 6d.; every additional half au 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. The weight of pattern parcels must not exceed eight ounces. S. B. Biss, Chief Postmaster.