Post Office Notice.

Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 1, Issue 21, 10 June 1867, Page 134

Post Office Notice.

mails close,— Bor England, via Marseilles and Suez, the Australian Colonies, and Southern Provinces of New Zealand, per s.s. “Lord Ashley,”'oh Saturday next, June 15, at 11 a.m. at the Chief ; - Post Office, and 10 a.m. at the Branch Office, Hastings-st. ijjsg° Money. Order Lists will close; and Registered Letters will be. received ••-up to lO &jn. PETER BOURKE, Chief Postmaster. PANAMA~MAnTsERyiCE. To Chief Postmasters, Postmasters , and Sul.Postmasters. . <• In consequence of an arrangement effected with the Directors of the Panama Railroad.,Company, the New Zealand postage on newspapers conveyed by that route will be reduced from threepence, to one penny each. No alteration will take place' in the foreign rates, accounted for by this department to London and Panama, on newspapers addressed to foreign countries. . Corrected tables of rates will be furnished as soon as they can be got ready; in the meantime Postmasters will be guided by the present table, taking care that.twopence is deducted from the preseut rates as.enumerated in the table now in their possession. Postmasters will bring the above alteration into immediate operation, and give every possible publicity. By order of the Postmaster-General, G. Eliott Eliott, Secretary. General Post Office, Wellington, April 20,1867. INLAND MAILS. ('he following is the Time Table of the Arrival and Despatch of Inland Mails.

NEW RATES OE POSTAGE. The following rates of postage are now in fore throughout the Colony : I. —TOWN LETTS US, Posted at any Post Office within the Colony for delivery at or from such Post Office— Not exceeding half-an-ounce ... One Penny Exceeding half-an-ounce but not exceeding one ounce Twopence For every ounce or fraction of an ounce over one ounce ... Twopence II. —COUNTRY LETTERS. Posted at any Post Office within tbe Colony for delivery at or Irom any Other Post Office within the same Province— Not exceeding half-an-ounce ... Twopence 5 Exceeding half-an-ounce but not exceed- . ~ ing one ounce ’ ... Fourpencer For every ounce or fraction of an-ounce ’ over one ounce Fourpence 111. —INTER PROVINCIAL LETTERS. • Posted at any Post Office within the Colony-for delivery at or from auy Post Office in any othe' 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 ounce • Sixpence IV.—NEWSPAPERS.. On all newspapers posted within the colony for delivery witnih the colony... One Penny

service. Mails close at 6.P.O. Arrive at Post Town. Close at Post Town. Arrive in Napier. Clive ... ... 9 a.m. Tuesday 2 p.m. Friday Havelock ... Noon Tuesday... Noon Friday ... Te Auto, Poukawa .. 3 p.m. Tuesday 8 a.m. Friday Pataneata, (branch from Te Ante) Noon Wednesday Noon Thursday Mangakuri* (branch from Clive) Waipawa >5£p.m. Monday, ... 4 p.m. Tuesday 9 a.m. Thursday ... 6 p.m. Thursday... yi p.m. Friday Buataniwhn (branch from Waipukurau)... Noon Wednesday 12 p.m. Thursday ... Waipukurau... 6 p.m. Tuesday "Wallingford , 11 a.m. Wednesday j 10 a.m. Thursday ... Pornngahau 1 p.m. Wednesday,. 4 pm. Friday (fort* "YVainui 5 p.m. Monday (fort11 a.m. Thursday... 9 a.m. Monday ... Castle Point .’. nightly) Noon Triday 1-30 p.m. Tuesday 10 a.m. Saturday ... nightly) Meanee bridge 9 30 a.m. Thursday Puketapu ... 3 p.m. Tuesday 6 p.m. Wednesday... Maruekakaho (branch from Puketapu)... Kereru (branch from Havelock) • Noon Tuesday ... 7 pm. Tuesday ... 9 a.m. Wednesday... 1 pm. Wednesday 10 a.m. Wednesday... • Noon Thursday Woodthcrpe ... ... 6 p.m. Tuesday ... 3 p.m. Wednesday Pekapeka ... 7 p.m. Tuesday 2 p.m. Wednesday... Petane \ 3 p.m. Tuesday ... 2 p.m. Saturday ... Mohaka "W'airoa ► 10‘30'a.m. Tuesday 9 am. Thursday ... £5 p.m. Thursday... 3 p,m. Friday 9'HO a m. Friday... > 9 am. Monday Mahia ) . 6 p.m Friday Noon Tuesday. )