Mail Notices.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 55, 9 March 1904, Page 4

Mail Notices.

Mails will close- at the Chief Post Ollice, Devon Street, as follows : For Wellington and South, daily, (Mir Express, at 6.30 a.m. Late fee (mail van) at 7.25 a.m. WEDXESIUY, MAUCH 0. for Auckland and North per Kara'va n( 7 p.m. THURSDAY, MARCH 1.0. For Wellington and South per Yakapuna at 10.; in a.m. For Auckland ami Xorth per Kotoili at 7 p.m. FRIDAY, MARCH 11. For Australian States, etc., at O.:i0 a.m., due Sydney March 1.0. For South Africa, per Nineveh,from Melbourne, at (i.;SO a.m., due Durban April JO. For Auckland and North pep liarawa at 7 p.m. Parcel mail for United Kingdom and Continent of Europe per lonic closes at Wellington March HI, due London May 15. NOTE.—Letters for United States of America should be prepaid 2Jd per half ounce. NOTICE. Berne notifies that private telegrams originating in Japan, l-'or-mosa, Japanese stations in Fusan, Seoul and Chemulph must be written in clear language in either Japanese, English or French. Private telegrams from Korean stations for Japanese ollicors in Komi, aivd for other countries, which pass over Japanese lines, are accepted when written in plain language in Japanese, English, or French. Private telegrams in secret language, eniunaling from Tokio, Yokohama, and Kobe, are admitted on production of code, accompanied by an explanatory note, written in Japanese, French or English. All telegrams passing over Japanese lines in Japan or Korea are accepted at the sender's risk. SPECIAL !WTE. On and from Alarm 3, 190-1, the postage on newspapers to nnd from the l/niled Kingdom will be reduced to one penny per paper, irrespective of weight, subject to Ihese conditions :—All newspapers exceeding 8 ozs in weight prepaid one penny are to be forwarded by direct steamer only. Newspapers- not. exceeding Moz prepaid at the penny rate may be forwarded bv the San Francisco or Federal mail service, or direct, etc. Newspapers, exceeding Ho/., if prep lid at existing rates, 1.e., a penny for the tirsf four ounces and ill for each succeeding U ounces, may be sent by the San Francisco and Federal maii lines. Wholly unpaid papers are to be detained and advertised as In the case of printed papers. When more than one newspaper is enclosed in the same bundle the postage on each newspaper must be uUi.xcd in stamps, otherwise the parcel will be surcharged at printed paper rates and sent on by direct steamer.