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Kumara Times, Issue 2767, 4 August 1885, Page 4

RATES OF POSTAGE VIA S\U]SZ 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 postal e to be paid on all letters, book-packets, .arid newspapers transmitted from New Zeal; it id to any place in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland by way of S n.ez and Brindisi shall be and the same is hereby fixed as herein set forth, that is- to say— On all letters, one shilling per h alfounce or fraction of half an ounce ; On all book-packets and parcels, threepence for every two ounces o r fraction of two ounces ; On all newspapers, twopence each. The said postage shall, in all such cas,es , be prepaid in New Zealand bv postage - stamps, to be affixed upon the' covers °o f the letters, book packets, or newspaper s so sent. 2. That on all correspondence receh 'e< 1 in New Zealand in mails despatched fr- on l the United Kingdom on and after I;he date aforesaid, and which has not be ei i prepaid in postage-stamps at the foregoi n{ j rates, a surcharge equal to the equivale n t of the difference between the rates afore- • said and the postage actually affixed to the correspondence shall be made. The said postage shall be payable on all such letters, book-packets, and newspapers on delivery in the colony to the pas< :>nse 1 to whom the same are addressed.