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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3086, 18 May 1881, Page 2

From our last English files we learn that Mr Gladstone had promised that arrangements should be made for one stamp being made available both for postage and receipts. That this would be a most convenient chancre cannot be doubted, and that it would be on 6 particularly suitable to the colonies is very evident. It j.frequently happens that persons in out of the way places are in want of a receipt stamp when there is not one at hand—in fact few but business people think of carrying a supply a xeceipt stamps, but a penny postage is almost always available. The advantage of the plan adopted by Mr Fawcettin allowing stamps of tbe value of one shilling to be received at the Government Savings Banks as deposits was quickly recognized in the colony, and the assimilation of the penny postage and receipt stamps is well worth the attention of our new PostmasterGeneral.