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Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 783, 2 March 1871, Page 4

THE NEW POSTAGE RATES. I. —Town Lettebs. Posted at any Post-office within the colo or delivery at or from such Post-office— Not exceeding half-an-ouuce ... Onepenm Exceeding half-an-ounce but not exceeding one ounce ... Twopence For every half-ounce over one ounce Onepecnj ll.—Country Letters. Poste i at any Post-office within the colon' for dr ivery at or from any other Post-offli wit' n the Colony— N exceeding half-an-ounce *... Twopence -weeding half-an-ounee but not exceeding one ounce Fourpence For every half-ounce over one ounce Twopenc, lll.—Austhaxian Colonies. Not exceeding half an ounce, Threepecoe Exceeding half-an-ounce but not exceeding one ounce Sixpenct For every half-ounce' over one ounce Threepenct NEWSPAPERS. Forplaces within the colony, the Australian Colonies, and the United Kingdom, Uuitod States, v : u San Francisco are chargeable tW„i, a rate- of one penny. POST OFFICE SAVINGS' BANK The New Zealand Gazette, of March 25th publishes the following regulations fo» the banks as above newly established at Chin church, Lyttelton, Kaiapoi, Timaru, Akrao« Hokitika, Greymouth, Waimate, Westport and Charleston. 1. Interest at the rate of 4 per cent. p f [ annum is,given on £2OO and under ; at thj rate of 3 per cent, per annum on sunn under £SOO ; and in the same proportion foj any shorter time on every complete £\ fa posited, provided that no interest be albwej on more than £SOO. 2. Depositors hi the Post Office Banks have duvet Government Security f (| the prompt repayment of their money. 3. A depositor in any one of the Post Office Banks can continue his deposits at any othet of such Banks, and can withdraw his monej at that Post Office Bank which is most convenient to him by giving notice of his «. moval. 4. The strictest secresy is observed with respect to the names of depositors in Post Office Banks, and the amounts of their deposits. 6. Money may be deposited by or on bi. half of minors. Depositors over seven yean of age are treated as persons of full age, but minors under seven years of age cannot withdraw their deposits until they have reached the age of seven. 7. Applications to the Chief Office in each District on the business of Post Office Sar. ings Banks, tnd the replies sent thereto an free froa c.iarge or postage. 71XPRESS to the Caledonian, German, Giles, Rochford, Hatten, an Christmas Terraces. W. BISHOP leaves the Times office for the above Terraces every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday mornings, at 7 o'clock. All orders carefully attended to. "HEELER'S ADVERTISING AGENCY, DUNEDIN. E. T. WHEELER, Agent for "Westport Times, Holdtika Lender, Dunstan Times, Hawke'i Bay Daily Times, Lyttelton Times Nelson Mail, NelsoD Examiner, Oamars Times, Southland Times, Tuapeki Press, Tuapeka -Times, Timaru Herald Panama Star and Herald, Wikouaiti Herald, Wakatip Mail, West Coast Times, Wairarapa Mercury, Taranaki Herald. Stafford Street, Dunedin. GOEDON AND GQTCH 121 Holbobn HrxL, London; and at Sydney akd Melbourne. ADVERTISEMENTS inserted in English, Continental, &, American Newspapers. Newspapers Periodicals. Magazines, Books, and Stationery supplied with accuracy and punctuality, and at the lowest prices. Proprietors of Newspapers furnished with connected with the printing business. Indents through the Sydney and Melbourne houses, and Commissions jvnerally, quickly and econotnieallj executed. ENGLISH NEWSPAPEBS BOOKS, MAGAZINES, &c. WILLIAM DAWSON & SONS •WUOLESAI.E AND BETAH Booksellers and Newsvenders, 12 L Cannon Street, City, Londjl England. ALTEE ISHOP NEWS AND EXPEESS AGENT, Street, WESTPOBT. NOTICE. TIMES AGENCY, CHARLESTON. Ti/TK. P. S. DEMPSEY is the authorised Agent for this papa in Charleston and vicinity. Feb. 21,1871.