POSTAL ARRANGEMENTS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume I, Issue 6, 21 March 1868, Page 4

POSTAL ARRANGEMENTS.

Mails frotn Europe and the Australian Colonies are at present forwarded from Melbourne on or about the)tenth of each month. Should the English mail not have arrived by that date, another * ftteamei* awsits the arrival of the English mail f£ Hobson's Bay for a period of ninety-six hours, and even beyond that time fol? any other time not exceeding a like period, of * ninety-six hours, if authorised by the Postmaster General or hk agent, while the mail steamer which arrives in Melbourne on the 10th, con- * veys the homjfward mails from Port Chalmers on or about the 20th of each " month. Mails are made up to Dunedin: for ' '£ran£mission to Australia, Southland, the Northern ports of this Province, and the Northern ports of New Zealand, by every ;,< steamer leaving .for these ports half an hour previous to their advertised hour of departure, due notice of which is given in the Dunedin newspapers a day or two previous. Private Boxes. •Fees— Fo£ the -first year or portion of a ' year, £2 ; for each succeeding year, £1. The commences bn the first January. "The P.ost Office is open to the* public , every lawful day from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. % Times for Posting Letters." 'Letters and newspapers prepaid by stamps can be posted at the boxes of the Chief Post Office and letters only at the wceiving houses at any hour of the day or lyghty Sundays included. Late leti&fs requiring an extra stamp ihust be ported at the Chief .Post Office, and riot at- the receiving houses. Registered letters must be presented for " registration at least, one hour prior to the * • time appointed for closing ship mails. , Address of Letters. • Letters occasionally remain a consider&Ke t\hi a hi +1. J Post Offices, in conse»<[i;c.ice f *!A.eir ''-11-!/I 1 -!/ ' j i* M T aoJ: '^'ed r i'> vJi^.'j Nis'., «v:i not uoaring £!"- na J \ne post town in which the pp>-«. son addressed resides. The address, to ensure correct and speedy delivery, should always be full, and if for Dunedin, the street, &c, should be given as accurately as possible., AH letters and B*ok Packets addressed to the United Kingdom, Continent of Europe % via United Kingdom, America, and -West Inclies, will he ' transmitted invariadly by Panama, «• unless specially directed to be sent olfeerwise.