MAIL SERVICE FOR THE PACIFIC.
General Post-Office, May 1855. —Arrangements have been made for the conveyance of mails to Australia twice in every month during the remainder of the present year by clipper ships from Liverpool, the owners of which have entered into a contract wiili the Postmaster-General for this service. The mails for Australia will be made up in London on the evenings of the following days—viz., June 4 and 19. July 4 and 19, August 4 and 20, September 4 and 19, October 4 and 20, November 5 and 19, and D;cember 4 and 19. The packets will in each case leave Liverpool on the succeeding days. All letters and newspapers for New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Van Diemen's Land, and New Zealand, will be forwarded by these packets, unless addressed to be sent by any other opportunity. The packet rates of postage will he chargeable on letters so conveyed, but newspapers will not be liable to any postage. Those postmasters whose instructions direct them to forward letters to Liverpool by cross-post will send in the same manner letters, &c, posted at their offices addressed to Australia.—Rowland Hill, Secretary.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume V, Issue 310, 20 October 1855, Page 5
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192MAIL SERVICE FOR THE PACIFIC. Lyttelton Times, Volume V, Issue 310, 20 October 1855, Page 5
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