POSTAL NOTICE.

Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 635, 22 March 1870, Page 2

POSTAL NOTICE.

Correspondence for the United Kingdom and the Continents of Europe and America will be forwarded in the mail which leaves Nelson on the 30th instant, via San Francisco, unless specially addressed via Suez. Owing to the uncertainty of timely communication between this port and Nelson, letters and newspapers for the Home Mails will be forwarded by every opportunity. LATE LETTERS. Late letters will be received at the Post Office after the time of closing the Mail until within twenty minutes of the hour of despatch, provided that such letters bear each in postage stamps an additional single rate, viz. : For places within the Province, 2d in addition to the postage. For other Provinces, 3d in addition to the postage. For places beyond the Colony, 6d in addition to the postage. In case any late letters are posted without the "proper late fee, it will be detained until the next despatch. Letters posted on board of vessels are liable to the late fee as late letters. Should such late fee or postage, or any portion be unpaid, they will be taxed *vith tho late fee, and double any deficient postage.

TO CORRESPONDENTS. Received Duller Valley Coal, " luangahua" on the Land Question, " Scrutator," on the Miners' League, J. Crate on Sea Encroachments, our Thames correspondent's letter of March 9, and our Wellington correspondent's letters of M.rcl> l> nn<l 11. MARRIED. At the residence of the bride, Half-way Bush, Dunedin, on the 4th March, by the Rev. D. M. Stewart, Thomas Carrodus, late of Melbourne, to Jemima, widow of the late Captain Randall. DEATH. At Oamaru, Otago, on the 15th March, Robert Ross, aged 51 years, the beloved stepfather of Allan Forsyth Stark, of Greymouth.