THE NEW POSTAGE RATES.

Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 657, 12 May 1870, Page 4

THE NEW POSTAGE RATES.

I.*—Town Lettes. ■ Posted at any Post-office within the colony ■ from delivery at or from such Post-office ■ Not exceeding half-an-ounce ... Onepenny'M Exceeding half-an-ounce but not ' I exceeding one ounce ... Twopencel For every ounce or fraction of an ■ ounce over one ounce Twopence.H_ 11. Coottey Lettebs. B 5 Posted at any Post-office within the colony fl' for delivery at or from any other Post-offlceH within the same province — U Not exceeding half-an-ounce ... Twopeuce ■" Exceeding half-an-ounee but not m exceeding one ounce Fourpence I For every ounce or fraction of an 8 ounce over one ounce ... Fourrjencp. UA .—INTERJPBOVINCIAI, LETTEEB ■ ! Posted at any Post-office within the colon* H for delivery at or from any Post-office in ar , M C other province within the calony— ■ Not exceeding half an ounce, Threepence. W Exceeding half-an-ounce but not | exceeding one ounce ... ... Sixpence.Bi For every ounce or fraction of an V ounce over one ounce Sixpence ■ NEWSPAPERS. m Forplaces within the colony, the Australian MColomes, and the United Kingdom, v ; a Suez ■ 1 and Southampton, are chargeable wMi a rate Mx of one penny. ■" Newspapers for the United Kingdom, viaß Panama or Suez, one penny; and Marseilles,ft threepence each. U] In consequence of newspapers being fre-Hl quently posted in packages of more than onefll number, the same are detained at the Chiei» Post-office, and attention is called tothefol-BF lowmg postal regulation:— Hf " Newspapers for transmission within thai colony shall be posted in single numbers, sol put up that the date of publication may bsfl readily seen Packages of newspapers consist* rug of more than one number shall be treated ■ as bookpackages. ■