POST OFFICE.

New Zealand Gazette and Wellington Spectator, Volume I, Issue 29, 31 October 1840, Page 3

POST OFFICE.

We publish the following information respecting postage, for the guidance of our subscribers : — The rste of postage established between this and the Bay of Islands, for the present, is Sd. for each single letter. To Sydney, 4d. for each single letter. The charge to other parts of New South Wales is according to distance. The pottage to the above places need not be paid in advance. - Letters passing through the Sydney post-office for other Colonies, for Great Britain, and foreign parts, must be post paid, or cannot be forwarded to their destination. The rate of postage on each single letter for Great Britain is 7d. Letters for South Australia, Van Dieman's Land, and Foreign places, passing through Sydney, are liable to the English postage. The reason of the letters per " Cuba," for England, having been returned to Port Nicholson is, that the postage of 7d. on each single letter was not paid. The Postmaster begs to notify that if the returned .letters sent up in the " Cuba," by •pri v ate opportunity, be not paid for soon, so that they, may be forwarded, it will be his duty to transmit them to the Postmaster- General to be opened, and returned to the writers. The following is a rude estimate of the white population^in New Zealand :—: — In Cook's Straits. — Cloudy Bay, 150; Queen Charlotte's Sound, 60 ; Kapiti and Mana, 200 ; Port Nicholson, 1600. East Coast. — Banks' Peninsula, 100 ; Port Otago and neighbourhood, 250 ; thence South, 300. North Island, East Coast. — Poverty Bay, 30; River Thames, 200; Bay of Islands, 600; Wangaroa and other places to the North, 100. West Coast.— Hokianga,' 200 ; Kaipara, 60; Manakau, Kafir, &c, 100. Total. — Four thousand and fifty persons.