POSTAL RATES.

Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1782, 7 April 1874, Page 4

POSTAL RATES.

. liEItEBBi I, Town , letters posted at | any Post Office within the Colony for delivery at or from such Post Office— Not exceeding half an ounce • • Id Exceeding half; an ounce and not exceeding one ounce - . 2d For every hilf oance, or fraction of half an jounce above one ounce -■ : - . Id 11. Country letters, posted at any Post Office lYuhia the Colony, for delivery at or from any Post Office within the, Colony— Not exceeding half an ounce • -2d Exceeding half an; ounce,but not exceeding one ounce , . v •. 4d . For every, half ounce or fraction of half on ounce above one ounce ...... • 2d . 111. Australian Colonies— . Not exceeding.half an ounce , . 2d Exceeding half an ounce, but not. exceeding one ounce. ■ • . 4d For every half ounce, or fraction of half an ounce above one ounce '■ - 2d IV. South Sea Islands (Fijia, Sandwich Islands, &o.)— Not exceeding half an ounce ■ > 3d For every additional half ounce or fraction . half an ounce : Gd The rates of postage in Now Zealand to be oharged.on correspondence for the United King" dom, via Brindiai, are as follows:— MraßS. Not exceeding half an ounce ■. • Gd Exceeding half an oance. and not. exceeding • one ounce / - . > Is 6d And so on, 9d for every additional half-ounce, or fraction cf half an ounce.'; 1 . HEWSPAPHES, " , Posted at any. Post Office within the , Colony for delivery at the same Post Office . • i • |d Posted at any Post Offioa within the. ■ :■ ; Colony for delivery at anj other Post. Office i\rithintho Colony ■ id Australian Colonies • : . Id United Kiugdoir, ; • ' . .. .. Id J MONK? ORDHB BATES.' - " 7 On and after the Ist January, the commission chargeable on Money: Orders on the United Kingdom will be as follows Noli exceeding- £2 '■ h.v 1.0 : Exceeding'£2and not exceeding £5 > 2'6 Exceeding £s.and not exceeding £7. ■ 3 3 Exceeding£7 and not exceeding £10 ■ 5 0 •' ■' JK HEW ZBALAND. Not exceeding £5 -6d Exceeding £5 and not exceeding £10 "■ ■ Is AUSIRiI.UK OOIiOXIE3. ' Not exceeding £5_ : Is, Exceeding £s'and not exceeding £10 ■ -2a ! BOOK AND PATIHBH PAUOBL3 (VIA BBINDISIj.' i Not exceeding one ounce' ■ ■ • .2d 1 Exceeding one ounce and notexceeding two I ounces" , • • ' : >' . HxSeeding two ounces and not. exceeding 1 fourounoes ■ ■ : ■ ■ .fd ■' Exceeding four ounces? and not "exceeding \ oightouncei •; • la-2d And so on,i Is 2d for every .additional eight \6unces or fraotioa of eight ouncos. - \-' ■yu ban mtidiaai). .The rates of'Postage'on correspondonce for* wanM by the Pacffio Midi Service via Saa IfranoßCO are as follows.'. Lott9ri"Nowspap9iß Pabke'U io*. : , Each; 1 Jib, Sahdwith lalaads 6d Id ' 44' United Btatos '■ 6d Id;''j 4d Canadlaidonilniona 8d ' 2d I '' 6d' 'British.Oolumbia la;. -' '-2d 0d ;Weat Indiea : • ••• Is ■ : 24 0d ilexioo 5 ;v » ■ -Is 2d : 6d Central America "' Is "- ■ : 2d ■ fldSouth Amtrica ■ la! f' •.2d" 3d : Except Mvia, Ohili, Ecuador, and Peru, for whioh the ntes are— i': - <-■" Not exceeding half an ounce ■ > la For overy ideational half ounoo or fraotioa ol half an cunoa : ■.• -; •' ■- 1 •Is 6d United Kingdom same as via Suez. Continent of horopej <!w.| via the United Sing • dom, as via Suez- ■ ' ''' If a letter be'posted wholly unpaid, tha letter must be detained and dealt with according o rule 163. 'If vletter addressed to any plaoo within the Colony be not sufficiently prepaid with postage stamps, but'nevertheless bear'a postage stamp of the value of one penny, the letter must be fomriled charged with double the amount of the deficient postage. If a letter liable to mora tlun one rato of postage/ and addressed to any plwo h tke United Kingdom, the Colonies of New South Wales, Viotoria, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia, be prepaid with one rate' at loaat, the lotter mußt be forwarded ohirged with the defioioncy aid an amount equal to one rate as a fine; but a'letter addressed to any other colony or foroign country, if not fully prepaid, must be detained and dealt with aocording to rule 153, , BOOK PAOKKI3 '' ($ ?or places in New Zealand, Australian Colonics, , and United Kingdom— | Not exceeding ono ounce •' • Id One ounoo to two ouncos ■' ' > ' ■ 2d Two buncos to four ounces' : . . 'i' Id Four ounoes to eight ounoo3 J. > ■8d ; Every additional oiglit ounces' '■ : . 8d