CHIEF POST-OFFICE

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 404, 27 April 1871, Page 2

CHIEF POST-OFFICE

Mails will close as under :— For Thames, this flay, at 4 30 p.m. and 5.30 p.m., .and to-morrow, at 5.30 p.m. For Wangarei Heads, etc., per Duke of Edinburgh, this day, at 5 p.m. For Russell Kawakawa, etc., per Coinerang, to-morrow, at 3 p.m. Mails for the undermentioned places, per s.s. Hero, will close at this office on Saturday, 29th mat., as follows : — For India, China, Mauritius, Mediterranean Ports, and Continent of Europe, at S a.m. For Australian Colonies, at 9 a.m. For United Kingdom via Suez and Southampton (for lettei'3 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. Eojgj.Kapajjo:^, etc.^per Lalla Rookh, on Mon-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 rate 3of postage collected in New Zealand on such correspondence will pay for its conveyance as far only as Alexandria. These rates arc as follow:—Letters not exceeding half an ounce, Gd.; every additional half an ounce, Gd. 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.