POST-OFFICE NOTICE

Dunstan Times, Issue 416, 8 April 1870, Page 2

POST-OFFICE NOTICE

From and after this date the postage on letters for all Australian Colonies (except Western Australia) will be as follows : ■ Not exceeding half an ounce 3d. Not exceeding one ounce 6d Not exceeding one ounce and a half 9d. And so on, increasing 31, for every half ounce. An alteration has also been ma-’e on the progressive rate of postage on letters for the United Kingdom, British Colonies and Possessions, which will in future be as follows : Not exceeding half an ounce One rate. Not exceeding one ounce Tw•> rates. Not exceeding one ounce and a half Throe rates. And so on, for every additional half ounce or fraction of half an ounce, one rate additional. The English mail via Suez will close on Tuesday 12th April, at 9 p.m., and via San Francisco on Tues lay, the 19fch April, at 10 p.rn. Mails close at his Office : For Dunedin, via Lawrence, on Tuesday at 10 p.ra. For Queenstown and intervening offices, via Cromwell, on Sunday, at 9 p.m., and on Tuesdays and Thurdays, at 10 p.m. Mails will arrive at Clyde : From Dunedin on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, at 6 p m. From Queenstown and Cromwell on the same days. From Car’rona and Lake Wanaka on Thursdays, at G p.m. J. Post-office, Clyde, HONYWILL, Postmaster March sth, 1870. Mails close at this Office ; cor Clyde, Cromwell, and Queenstown, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, at 5 p.m. The Office closes for sale of stamps, issue and payment of money orders, registration and delivery of letters, punctually ■at 5 p.m. W. V/. VAUSE, Postmaster. Post Office. Alexandra, Feb 8,1870.