POST-OFFICE NOTICES.
MAILS CLOSE. - Note —The next home mail, outwards, via San Francisco, leaves Nelson on Monday, 7th August. The next home mail, inwards, will arrive in Nelson on Thursday, 17th August, and eich fourth Thursday thereafter. For Wakanuaka— Close every Wednesday and Saturday* at 2.30 p.m.; arrive every Wednesday and Saturday, at 11 a.m. Note.— ln 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 £ ounce, 9d. ; exceeding i 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 4 ounces, 7d. ; exceeding 4 ounces and not exceeding 8 ounces, Is. id.; and so on, Is 2d for every additional 8 ouuces or fraction of 8 ounces. SYDNEY J. DICK, Chief Postmaster. -
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 184, 5 August 1871, Page 2
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