POST OFFICE NOTICES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11947, 22 January 1901, Page 4

POST OFFICE NOTICES.

Mails clobb at the Chief Post Office, Dunedin, subject to any neceapary alterations, ai nnder:— • -, Overland, Korth, daily, 10.20 a.m. Mo letters, ]0.4o; also on the mail van up to 11 a.m. Bnilts aud newspapers, 10 a.m. Late-tea letters miist bear, in addition to the otilinary pos'-asje—ld for inland letters. ?d for letters for Australia and the Siuth Sea Islands, and 2Jd for foreign oountrifes. TUESDAY, JANUARY 22. For Northern Ports, per Talunc, at 3 p.m. For Australian Colonies, via Hobart; India, China, Straits Settlements, South Africa, Mauritius. Mediterranean Porto, Continent of Europe, United Kingdom, etc,, per south , express, to connect with the Moarta at the Bluff, at 2.30 p.m. Late letters guard's van 3.35 p.m. \ Port train. Due in London March 8. Money orders and registered letters close at 1.30 p.m. Also corresDondenco for Hawaiiap Inlands, Canada,, and United States of America, 'to connect with the Vancouver steamer at Sydney/ For TVestport direct, per Upolu, at 1.80 p.m. THURSDAY, JANUARY 24. For Northern Ports, per Monowai, at 4 p.m. FRIDAY, JANUARY 25. For Australian Colonies, except Tasmania, per north express, to connect with Monowai, at 10 a.m. '■' •; Mail for Norfolk Island will close at 'Auckland on the 29nd. Mails for Natal and Capetown, per Aberdeen, on tho 22nd, and Gulf of Bothnia, from Melbourne, January 27. j Note.—The postage on letters, to Australia ' will remain at twopence, letters prepaid one penny frill be surcharged, \ \

REDUCTION OF POSTAGE. Prom the Ist January, 1901, the postage on letters and letter-garde for delivery within the colony or for United Kingdom, Canada, India, Cape Colony, and practically all other places in the British Empire, except Australia, will betel' each half-ounce or fraction thereof Id. For foreign countries rate will remain at 2Jd, and for Australia at 2d. PARCELS. Postage on parcels for United Kingdom will, from same date, be as follows: —For parcels not over 3lb, Is; over 3lb and up to 7lb, 2s; over 7lb and up to lllb, 3s. EXPRESS DELIVERY AND SPECIAL MESSENGER SERVICES . Will alto be established as from Ist January next. . The express delivery will cover letters and parcels not exceeding 3lb in weight, for which an extra fee of 6d has been paid, and delivery will be made on receipt at this and the following offices: —AshbuTtou, Auckland, Bleu- , heim, Bluff, Christohurch, Feildiner, Oisborne, Sore, Greymouth, Hawcra. Jlolritilta, Invercargill, Lyttelton, Mnsterton, Napier, Nelson, New Plymouth, Oamarn, Onehunga, Palmerston North, Port Chalmers, Thames, Timam, Wanganui, Wellington, Wcstporfc. _ The special mersenger service means placing a messenger at the disposal of any telephono exchange subscriber oil request being mtidfii and.a fee of 6d for the first mile and 3d each additional mile up to two miles, or time payment being made, such messengers limy he utilised for tunning-an errand, ordering a cab, delivering letters, email parcels, pr any similar E. Cook, Chief Postmaster.