POST-OFFICE NOTICES.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 200, 25 August 1870, Page 2

POST-OFFICE NOTICES.

MAILS CLOSE. For Motueka —per s.s. Murray, to-morrow, at 4.30 p.m. For Westport, Greymouth, and Hokitika —per s.s. Kennedy, to-morrow, at 4.30 p.m. For Mai borough, Wellington, Napier, Canterbury, Otago, and Southland, per s.s. Phoebe, tomorrow. For Picton, Wellington, Napier, and Southern Ports —per s.s. Taranaki, to-morrow. For Greymouth, Hokitika and the Australian ports —per s.s. Claud Hamilton, on arrival. The next Mail will be dispatched from Nelson for the United Kingdom, via Suez, via Marseilles, and via Brindisi, (only letters specially addressed), for the travelling Post Office between Marseilles and Lyons, Gibraltar, Malta, French, and Austrian Post Offices at Alexandria, Aden, Point de Galle, the General Post Offices in India, viz :—Bombay, Madras, and Calcutta, and for Penang. Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Yokohama, per s.s. Claud Hamilton, on arrival. The next Home Mail via San Francisco will be despatched from Nelson, per contract steamer, on Sunday, September 4. Rates ot postage by this route same as by Suez. Note. —The postage of letters and papers for Honolulu and North America, is now the same as for the United Kingdom, viz., 6d. for letters, and ld. for papers. For Stoke, Richmond, Hope, Spring Grove, Wakefield, and Foxhill—Close at Chief Post Office daily at 2.30, p.m.; arrive at Chief Post Office daily, at 11 o'clock, a.m. Notice. —The following is the rate of postage from this day:—Country letters posted at any office for delivery at any other office in the Colony 2d. per half ounce; for delivery at the office where posted ld. per half ounce. SYDNEY J. DICK, Chief Postmaster.