POST OFFICE NOTICES.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 123, 27 May 1870, Page 2

POST OFFICE NOTICES.

MAILS CLOSE. The next Home mail via San Francisco, -will be despatched from Nelson, per contract steamer Airedale, on Friday, 3rd June. Rates of Postage hy this route same as by Suez.

-For Stoke, Richmond, Hope, Spring Grove, Wakefield, and Foxhill— Close at Chief Post Office daily at 2.30, p.m. ; arrive at Chief Fost Oflice daily, at 11 o'clock, a.m. For Waimea-west — Close every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, at 2.30 p.m. ; arrive every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at 11 a.m. For Appleby, Upper and Lower Moutere, Nga . Timote, Motueka, and Riwaka— Close every Monday and Thursday, at 8.30, a.m.; arrive every Tuesday and Friday, at 4 p.m. Also, for Motueka per steamer as opportunity offers. For Wakapuaka— Close every Wednesday and Saturday, at 2.30, p.m.; arrive every Wednesday and Saturday, at ll a.m. For Tadmor and Wangapeka — Close every Tuesday and Friday, at 2.30 p.m., and arrive every Tuesday and Friday, at 11 a.m. SYDNEY J. DICK, Chief Postmaster.

Postage for the Australian Colonies (except Western Australia) to be as follows, from and after the Ist instant, viz : — Not exceeding I oz., 3d. ; not exceeding 1 oz., 6d. ; not exceeding 1| oz., 9d. ; and so on increasing 3d. for every J oz. The progressive rates of postage on letters posted in New Zealand for delivery in the Australian Colonies, or Great Britain, or British Colonies or Possessions, not exceeding -J oz., one rate; exceeding * oz.. bnt not exceeding loz., two rates ; exccidinj; I 0v... and not exceeding Ih oz., three rates ; and so on for every additional | oz. or fraction of half-an-ounce, one rate.