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Kumara Times, Issue 2583, 15 December 1884, Page 4

RATES OF POSTAGE VIA SUEZ AND BRINDISI. By an order in Council dated 28th October, 1884, the rates of postage on correspondence transmitted via Suez and Brindisi are in future to be as follow : 1. That on and after the fifteenth day of November next, the rate of postage to be paid on all letters, book-packets, and newspapers transmitted from New Zealand OrS^ft 5 * in ?? F nited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland by way of Suez and Brindm shall be and the same is hereby fixed as herein set forth, that is to say— On all letters, one shilling per halfounce or fraction of half an ounce ; On all book-packets and parcels, threepence for every two ounces or traction of two ounces ; On all newspapers, twopence each. The said postage shall, in all such cases, be prepaid m New Zealand by postagesamps to be affixed upon the covers of so'sent ' PaCketSj ° r n ™Wers • i °. n all correspondence received «L n ? G 5 m , mails despatched from the United Kingdom on and after the date aforesaid, and which has not been prepaid m postage-stamps at the foregoing of arg l eqUal t 0 the equivalent of the difference between the rates aforesaid and the postage actually affixed to the correspondence shall be made. Sh TLT P !? St ? Se sl f H be P a > rable on all such letters, book-packets, and newspapers on delivery in the colony to the pjsonse to whom the same are addressed.