POST-OFFICE NOTICES.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 53, 3 March 1871, Page 2

POST-OFFICE NOTICES.

MAILS CLOSE. * For Matakitaki —to-morrow, at 2.30 p.m. For New Plymouth and Auckland, for Honolulu, America, the West Indies, the United Kingdom, and the Continent of Europe, ma San Francisco —per s.s. Phoebe, to-morrow, Saturday, 4th inst., at 5 p.m. Registered Letters and Money Orders, at 4 p.m. 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. 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 11 a.m. For Tadmor and Wangapeka — Closed every Tuesday and Friday, at 2.30 p.m., and arrive every Tuesday and Friday, at 11 a.m. Note. —lnconsequence of the Australian Mails being now conveyed by British Packets between Brindisi and Alexandria, a reduction in Postage on Letters sent via Brindisi has been effected. The rates of Postage to be charged in New Zealand on Correspondence for the United Kingdom, via Brindisi, will therefore be as follows : — Letters. —Not exceeding £ ourice,\^d.; exceeding $ ounce anJ^not exceeding I ounce, la. 6d.; and so-"'dnJ9d for every* additional \ ounce or fraction of ounce. Newspapers under 4 ounces, each 4d.; for every additional bounces, 4d. y, Book and Pattern Parcels,,-sNot exceeding 1 ounce, 2d.; exceeding 1 ounce and not exceeding 2 ounces, 4d.; exceeding '2 ounce 9 and infct exceeding 4 ounces, 7d.; exceeding 4 ounces 1 and not •.._ exceeding 8 ounces, Is. 2d.; and so on, Is 2d for 'every additional 8 ounces or fraction of 8 ounces. SYDNEY J. DICK, Chief Postmaster.

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