CHIEF POST-OFFICE

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 407, 1 May 1871, Page 2

CHIEF POST-OFFICE

Mails will closie as under : — For Wangarei Heads, etc., per Duke of Edinburgh," this day, at 4 p.m. For Thames, i this day, at 5.30 p.m., and tomorrow, at 10.30 a.m. and 5.30 p.m. For Ruato, Wangaroa; per Speedwell, tomorrow, at 10 a.m. __. ForTauranga, Napier, and the Souther a provinces,j^er O.G.P.S. Luna, on Wednesday, 3rd inst.., at 10 a.m. Late letters and telegrams for transmission from the Tauranga station will be received at this office till • 10.30 a.m; " " For Fiji, per Leonidas, on Wednesday, 3rd. May, at 10 a.m. For Kapanga, etc., per Lalla Rookh, on Thursday, 4th inst., at 8.30 a.m. For Wanganui, per St. Elilda, on Thursday, 4th inst., at 9 a.m. Late letters and telegrams for transmission from the Wanganui station will be received at this office till 9.30 a.m., and at Onehunga tiil 10.30 a.m. Fo^'Tauranga; Napier, and the Southern provinces, per Lord Ashley, on Saturday, 6th instant, at 5 p.m.' For Taranaki and the Southern provinces, per Phoebe, immediately after the arrival of the Nevada, from San Francisco. Note.-—PoBt-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 as Alexandria. These rates are as follow :'-—Letters not exceeding half an ounce, 6d.; every additional half an ounce, 6d. J Newspapers ■'!§. each. Books and pattern r parcels, not- exceeding four ounces, 4d. ; four to' eight ounces, Bd.; every additional j eight puncep, Bd. The weight of pattern .parcels must not exceed eight ounces. „ ,7 ; _'X ?-,; " s- B..Bias, -'"'V' . ..' Chief Postmaster.