POSTAGE.

New Zealand Gazette and Wellington Spectator, Volume IV, Issue 315, 13 January 1844, Page 4

POSTAGE.

To Subscribers, other Newspaper Es^aISLISH_ENTS> AND COMMANDERS OF VESSELS- — In our paptr of September 30, we inserted the latest regulations, about Postage. For the convenience of our- mercantile friends, we have printed them upon, a half sheet of paper, and they can now be,- conveniently posted in au office for general reference. We cannot ourselves gather from the regulations the postage chargeable upon colonial papers posted at Wellington, but we .have been informed that the sum .chargeable is one penny per paper. This is a heavy tax,. and indeed we suspect the regulations will be found generally to bear severely upon the colonists. One penny each will amount to eight- shillings a.»d eight pence per annum; upon our paper. This sum we shall be obliged to charge quarterly in advance for papers ordered to be sent out of the colony, by persons resident here. More than one year since we announced that we would not supply papers to> parties residing out of the colony, unless, such subscribers arranged for- the payment for them through an agent here. Only two foreign subscribers have attended to this- notice, and the heavy expence of postage to which we shall be subject, makes it absolutely necessary for us now to carry our notice into .effect. In future English subscribers who have- not paid their subscriptiona in accordance with our. notice, and who desire* to have our Gazette must apply to our London Agent, Mr. Bowler; at, the New Zealand, Company's Office, London, to whom we have been forwarding for some time past and to whom we shall continue to forward fifty copies of the; Gazette. The only difference will be this, that heretofore we- have sent them through, the. post,, and now we must send, them by private opportunity, as it may offer, of which the Postage .Regulations permit ; they will,consequently np.t.be obtained, so frequently., As we shall .have .to. pay postage on all papers we send to or receive, from the colonies, we must decline the greater part of our exchange paper 3, a£ the'taX would fall very severely upon our small' establishment. Those w.ho cease, after this toreceive ourpaper, will please.therefore tctf understand* our reason as now given. We->have been in. the habit of giving our paper -to the masters of all ships in harbour. This has been a heavier tax than. many, would suppose^ and the tax has be.en the more felt as the masters of ships have rarely forwarded us papers in return, or afforded us information of any description-. T,o such commanders as send us papers, or render, us useful information, we shall be happy still 'to .give.the-jffawrefte ;. but the heavy expense, of. pO3tage,to whack we shall now be exposed, makes it necessary, for us to economise all the means' in- our power. We" therefore announce that .henceforward this .custom terminate*.