Post Office Notice.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume IX, Issue 452, 4 February 1867, Page 2

Post Office Notice.

Tus following is the Time Table of the Arrival -and Despatch of Inland Mails.

* The Mangakuri Branch Mail (via Clive) carries an open bag, and calls al diflorent Stations. KEW RATES OF POSTAGE. The following rates of postage are now in force throughout the Colony;— '■ 1. —TOWN LETTERS. Posted at any Post Office within the Colony for delivery at or from such host Office— Not exceeding half-an-ounce ... One Penny ; Exceeding half-au-ouuce but uot exceeding one ounce Twopence Por every ounce or fraction of an ounce over one ounce Twopence II. —COUNTET TETTERS. 1 Posted at any Post Office within the Colony for ■ delivery at or from any other Post Office within the same Province — Not exceeding half-an-ounce ... Twopence Exceeding half-an-ounce but not exceeding one ounce Fourpenco For every ounce or fraction of an ounce | over one ounce Fourpenco 111. —INTER-PROVINCIAL LETTERS. Posted at any Post Office within the Colony for delivery at or from any Post Office in any other • Province within the Colony— Not exceeding half-an-ounce ... Threepence Exceeding half-an-ounce but not exceeding one ounce Sixpence For every ounce or fraction of an ounce over one ouuce Sixpence 1 IV. —NEWSPAPERS. j On all newspapers posted within thecolony - tor delivery within the colony... One Penny Tables of Rates of Foreign Postage may be had at the Chief Post Office, Rapier, and I any Post Office in the Province. Theatre. — On Thursday evening last a dtamatic entertainment was ‘ given in the Masonic Hall, upon which ■ occasion the little company played with more earnestness and vigour than [we have noticed for some time. The 1 pieces selected for representation were ! “ A Cozy Couple,” written something in the style of the “ Spitalfields Weai ver,” in which Mrs. Newton as Mrs. ■ Dormouse, Kemp as Dormouse, and t Mr. Newton as Eusselton, quite ex- , celled themselves ; followed by a mui sical melange by Mrs. Newton and i several amateurs. This latter portion 1 of the entertainment was well received t We may mention that Mrs. N. re--1 a compliment never before * corded to an actress in Napier—namely, a bouquet of flowers being cast s at her feet while the curtain was faji ling at the close of the first piece. The ' performance concluded with the charmling bwietta of i; The Swiss Cottage,"

service. Mails close at Q.P.O. Arrive at Post Town. Close at Post Town. Arrive in Napier. rawo 9 a.m. Tuesday 3 p.m. Friday Havelock Noon Tuesday ... Noon Friday ... To Auto, Poukawa 3 p.m. Tuesday 8 a.m. Friday Patauvata. (branch from To Auto) Noon Wednesday Noon Thursday 1 Mangakuri* (branch from Clive) Waipawa ■ 5 p.m. Monday 1 1 p.m. Tuesday 9 a.m. Thursday ... 5 p.m. Thursday ... Y % p.m. Friday Euataulwha (branch from Walpukurau)... | Noon Wednesday p.m. Thursday ... Walpukurau 0 p.m. Tuesday 1 Wallingford Porangahau 11 a.m. Wednesday 1 p.m. Wednesday ... j 10 a.m. Thursday ... j 11 pm. Friday (fortWaimii 7 5 p.m. Monday (fort11 a.m. Thursday ... 9 a.m. Monday ... Castle Point nightly) Noon Friday 10 a.m. Saturday S nightly) 3'feauee Bridge 1-30 p.m. Tuesday 0'30 a.ra. Thursday 'I Pukotapu 3 p.m. Tuesday 5 p.m. Wednesday... Marookakaho ("branch from Pukotapu)... Kcroru (branch from Uavoloek) > Noon Tuesday ... 7 p.m. Tuesday ... 9 a.rn. Wednesday... 1 p.m. Wednesday .10 a.m. Wednesday ... >■ Noon Thursday Woodthorpe 6 p.m. Tuesday ... 3 p.m. Wednesday Pokapeka J 7 p.m. Tuesday 2 p.m. Wednesday ... J 'j 3 p.m, Tuesday ... 3 p.m. Saturday ... Molmka V 10-30 tun. Tuesday 9 a.m. Thursday ... 6 p.m. Thursday... 3 p.m. Friday 9-30 a.ra. Friday ... V 9 a.ra. Monday Mahia ) 5 p.m. Friday Noon Tuesday )