THE NEW POSTAGE RATES.

Westport Times, Volume 1, Issue 135, 6 January 1868, Page 4

THE NEW POSTAGE RATES.

I. —Town Lettes. Posted at any Post-office within the colony from delivery at or from such Post-office— Not exceeding half-an-ounce ... Onepenny Exceeding half-an-ounce but not' exceeding ohe ounce ... Twopence For every ounce or fraction of ati ounce over one ounce ... • ... Twopence For every ounce fraction of an sunce over one ounce ... ... Twopence. ll.—Country Letters. Posted at any Post-office within the colony for delivery at or from any other Post-office within the same province— Not exceeding half-an-ounce Twopeuce Exceeding half-an-ounee but not exceeding one ounce ... ... Fourpence. tor every ounce or fraction of an ounce over one ounce ... Fourpence. Lil - Letters Posted at any Post-office within the colony for delivery at or from any Post-office in any other province within the colony— Exceeding half-an-ounce but not exceeding one ounce ... ... Sixpence.L< or every ounce or fraction of an ounoe over one ounce ... ... Sixpence; NEWSPAPERS For places within the colony, the Australian Colonies and the United Kingdom, via Suez and Southampton, are chargeable with a rate ol one penny. Newspapers for the United Kingdom, via Panama or Suez, one penny; and Marseilles, threepence each. In consequence of newspapers being frequently posted in packages of more than one number, the same are detained at the Chief I ost-ofllce, and attention is called to the following postal regulation:— " Newspapers for transmission within the colony shall bn posted in single numbers' so put up that the date of publication may bo readily seen. Packages of newspapers consistingot more than one number shall be treated as bookpackages.