POST OFFICE NOTICES.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2258, 2 August 1870, Page 2

POST OFFICE NOTICES.

MAILS CLO9B For (Timaru, Akaroa, Lyttelton, Christ* church, Hokitika, and Greymouth, per s.s. Maoi, on Thursday, the 4th August, at 4.30 p.m. Per s.s. Fangitoto, on Friday, the sth inst., as under For India, China, Japan, Penang, Singapore, Ceylon, Aden, Mauritius, the British, French, and Austrian Post-offices at Alexandria, Malta, Gibraltar, Marseilles, and the Travelling P.O. from Marseilles to Lyons, at 11.30 a.m. For Australian Colonies {except Melbourne), at 12.30 p.m. For London via Southampton, via Marseilles, rift, Brindisi, Victoria, and Southland, at 1 p.m. For issue of money orders and posting of news papers and registered letters, at 10 a.m. Late letters may be posted as under : For Australian Colonies (except Western Australia), with a late fee of 3d per letter, till 1 p.m. For London via Brindisi, with a late fee of Is 3d till 1.30 p.m. For London via Marseilles, with a late fee of lOd, till 1.30 p.m. For Melbourne, with a late fee of 3d, till 1.30 p.m. For Waikava, on Friday, the sth inst,, at 3.30 p.m. ALTERATION OF POSTAGE RATES IN NEW ZEALAND. From this date the postage on letters at any Post Office in New Zealand for delivery at any other Post Office in the Colony (irrespective of Provincial boundaries), will be as follows Not exceeding 2d Not exceeding loz, 4d Not exceeding lioz, 6d Not exceeding 2oz, Sd. And so on, increasing 3d for every additional half-ounce. N.B.—The postage on letters for town delivery (i.e., from the office at which posted), . continues as before, viz., Id per half-ounce. ARCH. BAFH, Chief Postmaster. Chief Post Office. Dunedin, August 2,1870.