POST-OFFICE NOTICES.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 56, 7 March 1871, Page 2

POST-OFFICE NOTICES.

MAILS CLOSE. For Motueka and Golden Bay — per p.s. Lady Barkly, this day, at 4-30 p.m. For Motueka, Westport, Greymouth, and Hokitika — per p.s. Charles Edward, to-morrow. For Wanganui— per Wallabi, on Thursday, at 4.30 p.m. N ote. — The next mail for Australia, India, and Europe, via Suez, will be despatched from Nelson by any steamer which will meet the Tararua, which leaves Wellington on Thursday next. A Supplementary Mail will be despatched by the Alhambra, expected to leave Nelson about Saturday, I lth instant. For Tadmor and "Wangapeka — Close every Tuesday and Friday, at 2.30 p.m., and arrive every Tuesday and Friday, at 11 a.m. - - Note. — In consequence 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 J ounce, 9d. ; exceeding \ ounce and not exceeding 1 ounce, Is. 6d. ; and so on, 9d for every additional £ ounce or fraction of \ ounce. Newspapers under 4 ounces, each 4d.; for every additional 4 ounces, 4d. Book and Pattern Parcels. — Not exceeding 1 ounce, 2d. ; exceeding 1 ounce and not exceeding 2 ounces, 4d. ; exceeding i ounces and not exceeding*^ ounces, 7d. ; exceeding 4 ounces and not exceeding 8 ounces, Is. ?d.; and so on, Is 2d for every additional 8 ounces or fraction of 8 ounces! J' SYDNEY J. DICK, Chief Postmaster.