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Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 634, 19 March 1870, Page 2

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Mr John Munro reports having sold tho cargo of produce ex Mary June at fair prices, bran having fetched £7 lSs and oats 43 6d and 4s 7d. Good potatoes are reported as saleable at £G to JB6 10s, but large quantities of the Nelson potatoes are in the market unmarketablc owing to disease. POSTAL NOTICE. Correspondence for the United Kingdom and the Continent b of Europe and America will be forwarded in the mail which leaves Nelson on the 30th instant, via San Francisco, unless specially addressed via Suez. Owin« to the uncertainty of timely communication between this port and Nelson, letters and newspapers for tho Home Mails will be forwarded by every opportunity. LATE LETTERS. Late letters will be received at the Post Office after the time of closing the Mail until within twenty minutes of the hour of despatch, provided that such letters bear «ach in postage stamps an additional single rate, viz. : For places within the Province, 2d in addition to the postage. For other Provinces, 3d in addition to the postage. For places beyond the Colony, 6d in addition to the postage. In case any late letters are posted without the proper late fee, it will be detained until the next despatch. Letters posted on board of vessels are liable to the late fee as late letters. Should such late fee or postage, or any portion be unpaid, they will be taxed with the late fee, and double any deficient postage.