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the mail by which it is* desired to be transmitted. Every precaution will be adopted to ensure the safe delivery; of a registered letter by entering 1 it on. the letter bills, and obtaining a receipt for the same on ■.delivery. As the Post Office, howeyer, is not responsible for .. the loss. . of any letter, whether registered or otherwise, persons sending: Bonk Notes or Drafts tire-advised to take the numbers and particulars, and to cut the Notes or Drafts in halves, and to send them by different poste. Re-" direction'. — Letters, Newspapers, and Packets will be re-directed from one lost Office to another on tho written instructions of the person addressed, but on re-direction are chargeable with n new and distinct rate of postngc, to be paid on deliver}'. Penalties.— Any person sending as exempt from postage letters not liable to exemption, or enclosing a communication in the nature of a letter in nny_ Newspaper or Book Packet, is.liable to a penalty of £-20. Size and Weight. — No book packet or packet of newspapers' will be received, nor will any Postmaster be required to receive any letter if it exceed two feet in length, one foot in width or depth, or three pounds in weight. Book Packets to be Open for Inspection.— Every book packet shall be sent open at. the ends or sides, and there shall be no enclosure sealed or otherwise closed against inspection sent in or with such packet, nor anything printed or written in the nature of a letter. Contents. — With the above limitations, a book pneket may contain any number of separate bonks, maps, priuts, or photographs,, and any quantity of paper, vellum, or parchment, either printed, written on, or plain (exclusive of anything in the nature of a letter, whether sealed or open), with the binding, covering, or mounting attached to or belonging to such book, print, map, or photograph, and all things legitimately appertaining or necessary for the transmission of any enclosed literary or artistic matter, but exclusive of glass in any* form. The mimes and address of the sender im*y appear on the cover. Overland Carriage. — No Postmaster will be required to receive any book packet for transmission by an overland mail, if from its weight or any other cause the packet, appear calculated to retard the carrier. Money Orders. — Money Orders may be o btained and made payable at the following offices in the colony of New Zealand: — Province of Auckland — Auckland, Otnlmhu, Wangarei, and Russell ; province of Turanaki — New Plymouth ; province of Hawke's Bay — Napier; province of Wellington — Wellington and Wunganui; province of Nelson — Nelson nnd Uollingwood; province of Mnrlborough — Picton aud Blenheim; province of Canterbury— Christchurch, Lyttelton, Kaiapoi, nnd Timaru ; province of Otngo — Dunediii, Manaherckin Junction, Onmarii, Dttustan, Arrow River, Waitiihmia, Tuapekn, Qneenstown, and Tokomairiro; province of Southland— lnvercurgill and Hiverton. The commission charged on Money Orders is iis follows . — On the United Kingdom.— For sums not exceeding £2, Is; £5, 2s tfd"; £10, ss. On the Australian colonies and within Now Zealand. — For sums not exceeding £5, Is; £10, *2s. READER GILSON WOOD, Vor the Postmaster-General. General Post ORlce, Auckland, 10th September, 18G3. ■ in ii M ■■ ■- • ■■■!

"INVER.C.YROILL TIMES" BUA.NCEI Ob'FIUE, DEESTUEET. IN order to afford every convenience to Advertisers or Subscribers, the Proprietors of the "Times" have appointed Mr John ilu.vito, Bookseller and Stationer, Dee Street, nearly opposite the Prince of Wales Hotel, their Agent, and Business will be transacted there as a BRANCH ESTABLISHMENT, Where Advertisements, Jobbing, aad Subscriptions will be received, and promptly attended to. "SXTANTED Compositors*, Apply at the V\ ofhVe of this paper. WANTED a Machinist. Apply at the oliice of this paper.