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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 568, 11 January 1851, Page 3

[From the Got emmet Gazette, Sth January.] PROCLAMATION. By His Excellency Sir George Grey, K.C.8., Governorin-Chief in and over the Islands of New Zealand, and Governor of the Provinces of New Ulster and New Munster, and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c., &c., &c. AVTHEREAS by an Ordinance enacted by ’ ’ the Governor-in-Chief of New Zealand, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, Session 9, No. 2, intituled, “An Ordinance for Regulating the Conveyance and Postage of Letters,” it is amongst other things enacted, that it shall be lawful for the Governoi-in-Chief, from time to time, by Proclamation to be published in the Government Gazette, to abolish, alter, and fix the Colonial Postage payable for the transmission by Post of Letters and other Papers, and from time to time, by such Proclamation as aforesaid to alter, repeal, or abolish any Colonial Postage so altered or fixed as aforesaid and to make and establish anv new or other Postage in lieu 1, r ° ’ thereof.

And ichereas it is expedient that by prepaying the postage, persons should be ena"*bled to send Letters to and from the Colony of New Zealand to Great Britain free of . postage to the persons receiving the same, j and that a system of pre-payment of letters i by stamps should be introduced into New i Zealand, and to that end that the rates of ; Colonial Postage to be charged on all Leti ters be fixed according to the weight there--1 of and without reference to the distance or number of miles the same may be conveyed. A’ori therefore I, the Governor-in-Chief ; of New Zealand, in pursuance and by virtue : of the power arffi authority vested in me by | the said recited Ordinance and under and by virtue of all other powers and authorities enabling me in that behalf, Do hereby proclaim and declare, that, on the First day of April, 1851, the rates of Postage now payable ’ . in the Colony of New Zealand for the transi mission, receipt, or delivery .of Letters shall ;be abolished aud repealed. And on and after the said First day of April, 1851, a Colonial Rate of Postage shall be charged and paid on all Letters, passing through any Post Office in the Colony of New Zealand, or transmitted by post therein, by weight according to the following rate (that is to say). — On every .Letter not exceeding half an ounce in weight—Two Pence. On every Letter exceeding half an ounce in weight then the sum of Two Pence for every half ounce or fractional part of half an. ounce according to the weight of such Letter. The postage on all Letters and Papers despatched from New Zealand to places beyond the seas shall be paid in this Colony. All Letters and Papers having a Postage Stamp or Stamps affixed thereto or enclosed ■ in covers having a Postage Stamp or Stamps affixed thereto of such form as may be pre-