RATES OF POSTAGE VIA SUEZ AND BRINDISI.

Kumara Times, Issue 3018, 6 July 1886, 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 to any place in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland by way of Suez and Brindisi shall be and the same is hereby fixed as herein set forth, that is to sayOn all letters, one shilling per halfoiince or fraction of half an ounce ; On all book-packets and parcels, threepence for every two ounces or fraction of two ounces ; On all newspapers, twopence each. The said b'j pi-op,ud ;n Su\v Zealand by poatage-shini'-s, to be aftixed upon the covers of the letters, book packets, or newspapers so sent. "2. That on all correspondence received in iNe\v Zealand in mails despatched from the United Kingdom on and after the tuue nforesaid, and which has not been prepaid in postage stamps at the fore<roiii<v rates, a surcharge equal to the equivalent of the difference between the rates aforesaid and the postage acridly affixed to the correspondence shall be made. The £;iid ?-.05.-uv shall be payable on all j ' >IK:: : '-_»''ov-ft, 10-.k-packcts, and newspapers on delivery in the colony to the p.tsonse to whom the same arc addressed,