THE NEW POSTAGE RATES.

Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 659, 17 May 1870, Page 4

THE NEW POSTAGE RATES.

I.—Town Lettjbs. 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 one ounce ...Twopence For every ounce or fraction of an ounce 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. For every ounce or fraction of an ounce over one ounce ... Fourpence HI-—lnterprovincial Letteks. Posted at any Post-office within the colonj for delivery at or from any Post-office in ary other province within the cjlony— Not exceeding half an ounce, Threepence. Exceeding half-an-ounce but not exceeding one ounce Sixpence For every ounce or fraction of an' ounce over one ounce Sixpence NEWSPAPERS. Forplaces within the colony, the Australian Colonies, and the United Kingdom, v"a Suez and Southampton, are chargeable nr'th a rate of 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 Chiei Post-office, and attention is called to the foil lowing postal regulation:— " Newspapers for transmission within the colony shall be posted in single numbers, so put up that the date of publicatfon may ba readily seen. Packages of newspapers consist mg of more than one number shall be treated j as bookpackages.