MAIL NOTICES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LVI, Issue 8628, 10 December 1906, Page 6

MAIL NOTICES.

For Southern Offices of New Zealand, also Australian States (due Melbourne 23 rd December), per Mokoia, on Friday, at 6.15 a.m.

For Napier, Gisborne, Auckland and Australian "States (due Sydney "- ; '.' th December), per Waikare, on Thursday, 20th December, at 0.15 a.m. The next best despatch for the Contiuent of Europe and United Kingdom will be via San Francisco, closing Wednesday afternoon, l'Jth December, at 4.45 p.m. Money orders for despatch by this mail must be procured before 2.30 p.ra._ All registered correspondence and parcels for United States must bo presented before 3.30 p.m. A supplementary mail will be made' up, closing the following morning, at 5.30 o'clock.

Mails to connect with the South express, also for Pahiatua, Woodville, Palmcrston North, and Dannevirke, now close at Master ton Post Office at 2.30 p.m., instead of 2.40 as hitherto. A late-fee letter bag will close at the Masterton Post Office counter at 3 p.m. Charges for telegrams within the colony are now :—For ordinary telegrams, -3,d 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 6d for the first twelve words and Id for each additional word.

The new rates of postage are now in force. 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 cost Id for each halfounce or fraction thereof; to British New Guinea, 2d for each half-ounce. The rate for letters from New Zealand to the United States of America will be one penny per half ounce. Hitherto the rate has been 2|d per half-ounce. Postage from the United States to New Zealand will be 2H per half ounce as heretofore

It is officially notified that the direct steamer from Wellington for Sydney is now despatched every third Friday instead of every third Saturday, so as to make connection with the Suez mail leaving Sydney on Tuesday afternoon. The dates of despatch of mails can be arrived at by noting the fact that it will be the first Friday in every case after the San Francisco mail is due.