MAIL NOTICES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LV, Issue 8582, 16 October 1906, Page 6

MAIL NOTICES.

Mails to connect with the South express, also for Pahiatim, Woodvillo, Palmerston North, and Dannovirke, now close at Masterton Post Office at 2.30 p.m., instead of 2.40 as hitherto. A late fee letter bag will close at the Masterton Post Oilico counter at 3 p.m. Mails for the Commonwealth of Australia, Ceylon, India, China, Japan, Straits Settlements, also South Africa. Continent of Europe, and United Kingdom, will close at Masterton, on Saturday morning, at 6.15 o'clock. For Southern Offices of New Zealand, also Ilobart and Melbourne, close at Masterton, on Thursday morning, at 6.15 o'clock. For Auckland, via Gisborne and Napier, also Sydney, on Thursday, 25th inst.. at G. 15 a.m.

The next best despatch for the Continent of Europe and United Kingdom will be via San Francisco, closing at Masterton to morrow, at 4.45 o'clock. Money orders for despatch by this mail must be procured before 2.30 p.m. All registered correspondence and parcels for United States must be presented before 3.30 p.m. A supplementary mail will be made' up, closing Thursday morning, at 5.30 o'clock.

For Raratonga, Tahiti and Penrhyn Island from Auckland per Manapouri, will close at Mastertop. on Monday, 29th inst., at 5.30 a.m.

From November Ist the charges for transmission of telegrams within the colony will be:—For ordinary telegrams, ',(1 per word, with a minimum of 6d ; urgent, Id per word. On Sundays, on telegrams lodged at or addressed to offices which are open from 5 to 5.30 p.m. only, these rates are doubled. Heretofore the ordinary rate has been (id for the first twelve words and Id for each additional word.

The new rates of postage come into force on November Ist. The rate on letters and letter-cards in New Zealand and the Cook Islands is Id for each four ounces or fraction thereof. Postage to the United Kingdom, British possessions', and other countries which have agreed to a reduction of the Postal Union rates will cost Id for each halfounce or fraction thereof; to British New Guinea, "_M for each half ounce.