NEW POSTAL REGULATIONS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume I, Issue 24, 12 January 1853, Page 3

NEW POSTAL REGULATIONS.

The Government Gazette of Dec. 21, promulgates New Regulations, under and by virtue of " an Ordinance for regulating the conveyance nnd postage of letters," altering the subsisting regulations made By proclamation under the like authority, date the 19th Sept., 1851. The new regulations are to have effect from and after the Ist of January, 1853.

LETTERS AND PACKETS. ' A colonial rate of postage shall be charged and paid on a 1 ! letters passing through any" Post Office in tho colony of New Zealand, j or transmitted by post therein, by weight according to the following rate (that is to say) ;— -^_

I On every letter not exceeding •£ nn oz. in weight — two pence. I On every letter exceeding •£ an oz. in . weight — then the sum of two pence for every £ oz , or fractional part of an oz , according to the weight of such letter. The postage on all letters, packets, nnd papers, despatched from New Zealand to places beyond the seas, shall be paid in this colony. ! All letters and papers having a postage stamp or stamps affixed thereto of such form as may be prescribed by the local government, which shall not have been used before, and which shall be of the value or amount of the Postage to which such letters or papers would be respectively liable, according to the scale hereinbefore provided, shall pass by the post free of postage. j On all letters sant by post, on being redirected and again forwarded by the postythere shall be charged a new and distinct rate of postage for the re direction, in addition to all other rates of postage payable thereon, according lo the scale and rate of postage hereinbefore mentioned. No letter or packet exceeding sixteen ozs. in weight shall be forwarded by the post, except letters to and from places beyonuHhe seas, and letters to and from the Governor, letters on tlie public service, or to and from any of the Government offices or depart--ments, and except also printed books, magazines, reviews and pamphlets. PRINTED BOOKS. Printed books, maga»ines, reviews, of pamphlets, (whether British, Colonial, or Foreign) shall be permitted to be sent through the several post offices to the United Kingdom, at thc-following rates of postage : — For a slnglo volume oc packet, notexecediug half an oz. in weight ... 0 0 6 For o single volume or packet, exceeding half a lb., and not exceeding 1 lb. .. 0 J^.o For a single vulumo or p.ickct, exceeding 1 lb., and not exceeding 2 lbs 0 2 0 Fur a jingle volume or packet, exceeding 2 lbs., and not exec ding 3 lbs. .. ..030 And so on, increasing Is. for every additional pound, or fraction of a pound. The charge shall lie the same whether the books, &c , be posted or delivered at the poit, or whether they be posted or delivered at any place in the interior of the colony. To prevent the inconvenience which might ensue from a large arrival of books, &c., by the same mail, the Colonial Post* masters are hereby authorised, in cases of necessity, to delay the despatch of such books to or from the interior, until the des- ! patch of the mail next after that by which they would in the usual course be sent, or at their option, for a period not exceeding one week. No such book or packet shal 1 be sent by tiny route which would entail an expense of transit postage on the department. One third of the total charge will be considered as paid for the British Inland Hate, one third for tho Sea Rate, and the remaining third for the Colonial Inland Rate. Printed Books, &c, sent through the Post under the Regulations here proposed, shall be subject in all respects to the same restrictions as arc hereinafter made with respect to Newspapers, NEWSPAPERS. Printed Newspapers shall be conveyed by the Post free of Postage, provided they be sent without a cover, or in a cover open at the sides, and thcro be no writing thereon, or upon the cover of the same, except the name and address of the person to whom sent, and that no paper or thing be enclosed in or with any such paper. And every paper or packet which shall be contrary in any respect to tho conditions hereby required to be observed, shall bo charged with the duty of Postage to which it woukS-have-Aeen liable a 9 a letter. Printed prices current and commercial i

lists, not exceeding 2 oz. in weight, shall be forwarded through thcTpost under the same regulations and privileges us newspapers. ARMY AND NAVY lETTER 3. Non«Comrnicsloncd Officers, Captains, Stewards, Snroen and Soldiers, may tend «nd receive letter* not exceeding half an ounce to weight by tha Poit, an their own private concerns only, while they are employed on her Majesty's no r vice at the rate of 1 penny for each letter. And with respect lo letter/i •ont or received by any mch privileged persons th« following conditions shnll bo observed, that li to say— the Postage of each letter (udlcs9 lent from pnrti beyond tho tens) shall be paid on boing pat Into tho Post Office, and upon inch letter shall be subscribed the name of the writer and hit eltis or description in the vessel, regiment, corps, or detaxbment to which he belongs, and signed by tho officer baviug at tho timo the command of the vessel, or of tho regiment, corps, or detachment to which tho privileged person belongs. When ever the letters tent or received by-sa?L such privclcgcd persons shall be sent from parts beyond tho teas, without tho said Postagoofona penny being prepaid, every such letter ihall b» charged to tho party recoiving the same with a r*te of twopenc", and any letters received by the Poit, under this regulation, by any such piirclegcd persons, which may have been redirected shall not be ohnrged with any Postago for such redirection. _Nos"c— lt will be observed that tho only amendments in the above regulations, are the eiclmion of Deeds, Liw Proceedings, and Law Papers from t he elms of Documents passed through tho Post offices at reduced rates, and the reduction of the penalty on newspapers, papers, or packets not fulfilling the conditions requited to bo observed, from treble the rate they Would bavo borne 81 letters, to a single smb. rate. Alfubd Domett, Civil Secretary.