Rates of Postage.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 17, 10 July 1900, Page 2

Rates of Postage.

lILBGBAPH BATES IM HKW SEATJUfD. Ordinary Telegrams. From any bt&tion to airy station, Fo the words or less, including address and signature, 6d. For every additional word, Id. XJigent Telegrams. For the first 12 -words or leas, including address and signature, Is. For every additional word, 2d. On Sundays, double the above rates.

Late feo letters must bear in addition to ordinary postage, Id fur inland letters. 2tl for letters for Australia and the South Sea Islands. Twopenoe halfpenny for all other places. Id for letter cards or post cards however Addressed. 80£fe litters may be poßted is the gaard'a van up to the time of departure of train.

BEGIBTBATION. The ttt for all places ia od. The sender of a registered article may obtain »n acknowledgement of its due receipt by ' tb» addressee on payment, at the tune of posting of th« articl*, of an " acknowledgment fee" of twop«nc« halfpenny, in addition t» (hs ordinsry registration fee. I Anj letter, letter card, pobt uavd, book, o otiu«r packet, ne^flpaper, or inland jmreoj wiii be accepted for regi&traliow Ptlrceis for places beyond the coiouy canuoi \)Q registered.

PiUOEM. Inlanu, 6d for the firßt lib, and 8d for each succeeding lib or fraction thereof. Australian Colonies, Cook, Samoun, Norfolk, and Hawaiian Islands, 8d for the first lib, and 6d for each succeeding lib traction thereof. The post office ia not, by law, responsibl for any loss or inconvenience which ta»j arise from the non-delivery, miscoding or nais-delivery of any unregiiered letter, or other postal packet, nor is it esponsible for any injury whioh a packet tawj sustain during traasmission. To guard against their being injnred, all postal packets whioh are likely to suffer from stamping or from great pressure should be placed in strong covers.

VEWSPAfSRS. Town and Inland, halfpenny each. Austral!*, except Queensland, and South 8e» Islands, Id each. All other places, including Queensland, Id orwib it not exceeding 4oz, and halfpenny additional for every succeeding 2oe or fraction thereof. A newspaper must not contain any ■writing beyond the name und address of Ih addressee, the initials or name and addresa oi th« sender, and any maiks or eigas simply intended to oall attention to passage in ft text.

MJLeAMNES (registered). New Zealand, Australian colonies, excep Queensland and Western Austraia, and Tasmania : Each copy, first Boz, Id; every i.dditional 4oa or fraction hereof, halfpenny. Queensland, Id ior 4oz or fraction tnereof Western Australia and other places, as unregistered magazines.

magazines (aQt registered). All places except Queensland, halfpenny pei 2oz or iraction thereof. Queensland, Id per 4oz or fraction v hereof.

ZaiOTS 0* 6ERS AND WEIGHT. The limits of size for book-packets are 18in. in any direction. If made up in the form of a roll, ft packet may measure up 2ft. 6in. in length and 4,n. in diameter ; the weight most not exceed 41b. PAITERN AND &AMPLB PAOKKTS. All places, not exceeding 4oz, Id; every additional 2oz or fi action thereof, halfpenny.

Bow to **ax.. \ book packet may be posted either .fchout a cover (in which case it must not be fastened m any way) or in a cover ntirely open at one or both ends. It may Jbe *»ed at the ends with 6tring, but the tring must be ea*y to unfasten.

Tows, haM-pecny if not exceeding half ounce, or Id for tbe first -ios or fi action therertt, and a halfpenny foi each succeeding ioz or fiactlo* thtfeof. Tnloni, Id for the first 4ox or less, and Jipeony for eaoli- eucceeding 2oz Or thereof Ausiralia and all other places twopence halfpenny for th« flxet Moz, and half, ipermy for each sooeetding 2oi or haetion thereof.

rOWS OAKDB. Town, Island uatralia. and South Sea Islands, single, KA ; reply, 2<i. other places, single, l^d reply, ofl. BOOKS AHI> PBINTKI) PAYKKS. jyi places, Jd lor each 2om or ftaoiion thereof. ChrJatiDas *t any ether seasonable 01 coicpifaaent&ry cordß ooai? ander this

Town .. .. Id for OBiCll haH tvonce or ft action thereof .. *. 2d for each half ounof cr fraction thereef. Axmtandbsn Oslo- \ nim, and Ooob, JJtwie, E&ptet, ißwfelk.Pit- | v cai»», Bamo&a, \ 2Q tor each ball ounce , Solomon ani r -or fraction tberooi. Tong»» IsladSb, British Mew tin-tinea, New Sabndts , All other places two pence penny every half ounce or fraction thereof.