POST-OFFICE NOTICES.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 207, 2 September 1870, Page 2

POST-OFFICE NOTICES.

MAILS CLOSE. The next Home Mail via San Francisco will be despatched from Nelson, ptr contract steamer, on Sunday, September «. 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, ai<d Id. 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 ()ffictdaily, 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 II a.m. J 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 oflers. For Tadmor and Wangapeka — Close every Tuesday and Friday, at 2.30 p.m., and arrive every Tuesday and Friday, at 11 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 Id. per half ounce. Notice—Payments of Premiums on Government Life Assurance Policies, may be made through any Money Order Office in Great Britain or the Australian Colonies, on the days notci in the Policies ; but the Government reserves to itself the right of requiring payments to be made, in Great Britain three months, and in the Australian Colonies, one month in advance, should it be deemed necessary. SYDNEY J. DICK, Chief Postmaster.