MAIL NOTICES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 8, 10 January 1901, Page 2

MAIL NOTICES.

mmr Mails will close at the Chief Post Office Devon-street, aa follow Thdbsbay, JASUABY 10. For Auckland, per Ngapuhi, at 7 p.m. Fbicay, JanuaiT U. For Australia and Tasmania at 6 ajn., duo Sjdnev, January i 7. ior ..'ciuugion and South, per Mapourika, at i.m. For Auckland, per Rotoiti,at 7 p.m. For Australia, Tusmani*, Ceylon, India, Chiun, Japan, Straits Settlements, etc., at 7 p.m., doe Sydney, January in. For South Africa, via Haul, at T p.m. Monday, January 14. For Barotonga and Tahiti, at 7 p.m. Friday, 18th January. 3~;;el mail for United States of America a! D p.m. 1! cr Samoa, Honolulu, Japan, United States cf America, Oasada, British Columbia, (. .nlr.il and South America, British and t'o.i iea West Indies, United JLingdonjuid Ucv.Trent ot fcuicpe, via San r raneisco, at bw 7 p.m. /or money order* at 4 p.m., and icgistcred letter!! at 5 p.n. Mail due in Lend )n February ltilb. , Note. —Late letters for despatch via San Francisco will be received .at this office, without payment of-Tate fee up to 8 p.m. on day of closing mail. FEXNt POSTAGE. F '.'> m Ist January, 1901, the postage on lelisrj and letter cards for delivery .Rithiu the colony, or tor C luted Kingdom,. Otuiaoa, India, Cape Coloßy, and practically all ether places in British Kmpire, except,Atistralia, will be for each half ounce or. f taction thereof one panny. Foreign countries rate will remain at 2£d as at present, and for Australia 2nd, until further advised. Postage on parcels for United Kingdom will, from same date, be as follows: —For parcels not over three pounds, 1b ; not over seven pounds 2a; dot over eleven pounds, Ss. AUSTRALIAN POSTAGE. Tub Poakage on letters to Australia will remain twopence (2d). Letters to. Australia prepaid one penny will be turcharged. EXFBBSB DKLIVXBY AND BPEOIAL MESSENGER SKBVIOB.

Bxpbess delivery and special messenger servioea will be established at New Plymouth Post and Telegraph Offices as from the l»t January:—The express delivery will cover letters and parcels not exceeding 31b. in weight, for which an extra, fee of 6d has <ie*n paid. The delivery is to be effected by telegraph messengers. . The special messenger service means placing a messenger at the disposal of any Telephone Exchange auhfecriber on request being made, and a fee of 6d on the Krat mile, and'3d each additiooal mile op to two miles, or a time jayment being made. F. D. HOLDSWORTH, Chief Poatmaater.