Rates of Postage.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 24, 28 July 1900, Page 2

Rates of Postage.

IXi'lEßfl. Xbtkh «. „ Id for each half ounce orlraolion fchoroof. •a W>d „ .. « - 2d loi each half ounce or fittfitioa there**. A^^pt'i-AB Ge'.o- \ XHf ie, Kai-ter, I ;, . :« k, Pit- S .. -i r , SettOUK, Ifid tor each half oanco , .i f.ji and ( 01 iraotion thereof. • .s.i.km.j Kew /1] vrter pUv.ei. two ponce half penny < vrij hall ounea or liacnon thcieof.

VOtji OAKDS. *lov,n, lal»ni ustiaha, and South Sea "Jslauds, single, Id ; ieply, 2d. other places, single, U£ reply, Bd. BOOKS AMD PBINWD KAI'BRS. £11 jV-tS, |d £01 each 2oa »i fraction . .vieof. f ! .vtmas or any other seasonable or ccnifuuieutary cards com* nador this

COM&EB&CIA& PAPIR9. To vn, half-penny if not exceeding ht,li «-. nc , or Id for th« fii&t 4oz or fraction 4heic«J, and a halfpenny for each succeedirt, 2 z or fraction thereof. iniaiid, Id foi the fhst 4oa or less, and ilfrenny f®r eack succetding 2oz oi thereof Austr&H* and all other places tvropenot -faßif^ui'y for the first lOoz, »nd half pem-y lot each succeeding 2oz or Iractior thereof.

MOW TO PACK. A book packet 'may he posted eithei ii; fl«1 a cover (in which case it musi ~i»ot 0 fattened in any way) or in *. covei -«.,tiu :y ojjen at one or both ends. It maj be rftni at the coda with btring, but the ■astiti'g must bo easy to unfasten.

lamia »r bixb and wiiGHT. Tl.e Jin-its of s-ize for book-packets are JL&n. in any direction. If made up in the of a 1011, a packet may measure up lit om. in length and 4m. in diameier ; vie.^Lt must not exceed 4ib. PAaTEBN AKD SAASFIJi PACKETS. A4I p.aces, not exceeding 4oz, Id; «Vfiy additional 2oz or fi action thereof,

magazines (not registered). AL 1 ymces except Qu»«isi*.nd t halfpenny jm; liv a 01 uaoticn theieof. <^u ou.iand, Id per 4oa or Iractior

MxaAZiHW (registeied). Kw Zealand, AusU-alian colonies ; exec- ana Western Austraia,i.! t'JUi.ni(UQia: Each copy, first Boz lii; i.oy udditioual 4oz or io^ o«k m Halfpenny. Qv .;.t-land, Id for 4oz or fractior Y. m AustraH? and other places, a; uiati o i»*vered magaaiues.

JyEWfePAVEUS. 1 o\\ si and Inland, ha! fpenny each * i-tt . except Queensland, ana fccuia txa islantts, Id tkch. yOi c-her place*, incln ing Queensland, la ,&~.u ii not exceeding iuz, and halfpenny additional ior every succeeding 2c2 t« fraction thereof. A i.ov,"->>s.i£>er uia^s not contain any <wn".rt beyond the name «vnd addxess of in „ih s-eo, the lniUalrf ot name and SL.".a< s ot the sendei, and any maika or %.f t.f. biu-plj intmded to call attention to

lnlami, cd for the first lib, and Sd for «pt-l succeeding lib or faction thereof. -iu-utliaa Colonies, Cook, Bamoan, Srofnlk, and Hawaiian Islands, 8d for the tfin-t lib, and 6d for each succeeding lib j^ttuoii (,Jieiet.i. TV-e post office ia not, by law, responi ] ia< y Joes: 8i inconvenience which ; la,* -•ite horn the non- delivery, mis- ] . ricsu*.' «r mis-deliVery of any unregiso ' a M .tv, or ot'uei postal packet, nor is it e M n-s ble for my injury which a packet *nu\ bwi tain during, trausmission. To •si-- »d against their being injured, all jM>tl*l p«« tB whicll are hkoly t0 su er i uM stamping or from great pressure sLwulu be placed in strong covers.

BKOISTBATION. .. j lie fee foy all places is 3d. The sn-<>r of a registered artiole may obtain »^, r i Li.c-wiedgtUiem. of ila due leceipt by 4h' 'fc'-laiepsee on payment, at the time of rosjmc oi th« article, of an " aeknowledg- *.' eMt fte" -of ty?opence halfpenny, in J ,<li<icn to the ordinal y registration fee. ins letter, ktter card, post card, book, -o *«W packet, ne-wepaper, or inland 8..1C. « will b« accepted for registration !>au-fls for places beyond the colony cannot l.« registered.

IJITJC ITES LETXEBS. L ilc tee letters must bear in addition 4o ji .nary postage. Id for inland letters. 2n lor letters for Australia and the South Sea Islands. 'Jw. prnce halfpenny for all other piaces. , Id for letter carda or post cards howex ci addressed. •i fh letters may be poßted in the s ui.*-"'b van up to the time of depaxture of

tVli GUAM BATES IN NEW ZEALAND. Ordinary Telegrams. 3? turn any station to any station, For the first 12 words or leas, including "a-ldresß and signature, 6d. Fc e>ery addUional word, Id. Urgennt Telegrams. Foi iuc first 12 words or less, moiudmg t.c.'esK and signature, Is. Po, e-.trv additional word, 2d. O-i Sundays, double the above rates.