POST OFFICE NOTICES.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2519, 14 March 1871, Page 2

POST OFFICE NOTICES.

MAILS CLOSE — Per 8.8. Tararua, on Wednesday, the 15th 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 (exceptjMelbournc), at 12.30 p.m. For London via Southampton, via Marseilles, and via Brindisi, Victoria, and Southland, nt 1 p.m. For issue of money orders and posting of newspapers and registered letters, at 10 am. Late letters may be posted as under For Australian Colonies, except Melbourne, with a late fee of 3d per letter, till 1 p.m. For London via Brindisi, with a late r fee of 9d per letter till 1.30 p.m. For Melbourne, with a lata fee of 3d per letter till 1.30 p.m. N.B.—An alteration has been effected in the rates of postage via Brindisi, as follows : LETTERS Not exceeding £oz, 9d Exceeding and not exceeding loz, !s 6d And, so on, 9d_for every additional \oz er fraction of ioz. BOOK AND PATTERN PARCELS. Not exceeding 1 oz, 2d Exceeding 1 oz, and not exceeding 2 oz, 4d Exceeding 2 oz, and not exceeding 4 oz, 7d Exceeding 4 oz, and not exceeding 8 oz, Is 2d And so on, Is 2d for every additional Boz, or fraction of Buz. Newspapers under 4oz each, 4d For every additional 40z., 4d CECIL Y. BISS, In absence of Chief Postmaster. Chief Post Office, Dnnedin, March 14.1871.