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Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 922, 3 February 1872, Page 4

THE NEW POSTAGE RATES. l.—Town Letters. Posted at any Post-office within the colony or delivery at or from such Post-office— Not exceeding half-an-ounce ... Onepenny. Exceeding half-an-ounce but not exeoeding one ounce ... Twopence For every half-ounce over one ounce Onepenny ll.—Country Lkttisrs. Poste i at any Post-office within the colony for dr ivery at or from any other Post-office wit 1 n the Colony— N . exceeding half-an-ounce ... Twopence, ■ icecding half-an-ounee but not exceeding one ounco Fourpence. For every half-ounce over one ounce Twopence lll.—Austiiauan Colonies. Not exceeding half an ounce, Threepene Exceeding half-an-ounce but not :' :: exceeding one ounce Sixpence. For every half-ounce over one ounce ... , Threepence NEWSPAPERS. Forplaees within the colony, the Australian Colonies, and the United Kingdom, United States, v'a San Francisco are chargeable w'th a rate of one penny. POST OFFICE SAVINGS' BANK The New Zealand Gazette, of March 25th, publishes the following regulations foi the banks as above newly established at Christ church, Lyttelton, Kaiapoi,,Timaru, Akraoa Hokitika, Grey mouth, YVaimate, Westport and Charleston. 1. Interest at the rate of 4 per cent, per annum is given on £2OO and under ; at the rate of 3 per cent, per annum on turns under £SOO ; and in the same proportion for any shorter time on every complete £1 deposited, provided that no interest be allowed on more than £SOO. 2. Depositors ia the Post Office Savingls Banks have duvet Government Security for the prompt repayment of their money. 3. A depositor in any one of the Post Office Banks can continue his deposits at any other of sucli Banks, and can withdraw his money at that Post Office BanS which is most convenient to him by giving notice of his removal. 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 behalf of minors. Depositors over seven years 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 t\c business of Post Office Savings Banks, and the replies sent thereto are71XPRESS to the Caledonian, Gerli man, Giles, Rochford, Hatters, an Christmas Terraces. W. BISHOP leaves the Times office for the above Terraces every Thursday, and Saturday mornings, at 7 o'clock. All orders carefully attended to. HEELEE'S ADVERTISING T T AGENCY, DTJNEDIN. E. T. WHEELER, Agent for Westport Times, -Hoki tika Leader, Dunstan Times, Hawke'a Bay Daily Times, Lyttelton Times Nelson Mail, Nelson Examiner, Oamaru. Times, Southland Times, Tuapeka Press, Tuapeka Times, Timaru Herald Panama Star and Herald, Wikouait Herald, Wakatip Mail, West Coas Times, Wairarapa Mercury, Taranak Herald. Stafford Street, Dunedin. GORDON AND GOTCH 121 Holborn Hill, London ; and at Sydney and 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 Paper, Ink, and every requisite connected with the printing business. Indents through the Sydney and Melbourne bouses, and Commission? generally, quickly and economically executed. ENGLISH NEWSPAPERS BOOKS, MAGAZINES, &c. WILLIAM DAWSON & SONS wholesale and retail Booksellers and Newsvenders, 121 Cannon Street, City, London England. ALTER ISHOP NEWS AND EXPRESS AGENT, Kennedy Street, NOTICE. TIMES AGENCY, CHARLESTON. jl/TR. P. S. DEMPSEY is the authorised Agent for this paper in Charleston and vicinity. Feb. 21, 1871.