THE NEW POSTAGE RATES.

Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 670, 11 June 1870, 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 one ounce ...Twopence For every ounce or fraction of an ounce over one ounce Twopence. 11. Country Letters. Posted at any Post-office within the colony for delivery at or from any other Post-offic, within the same province— Not exceeding half-an-ounce ... Twopeuce Exceeding half-an-ounce but not exceeding one ounce Fourpence For every ounce or fraction of an ounce over one ounce ...Fourpence Hl.—lnterprovincial Letters. Posted at any Post-office within the colonj for delivery at or from any Post-office in ari other province within the colony— 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 Suei and Southampton, are chargeable w'oh a rate of one penny. Newspapers fox the United Kingdom, via Panama or Suez, one pennyj and Marseilles threepence each. ' In consequence of newspapers being fre, quently posted in packages of more than one number, the same are detained at the Chief Post-office, and attention is called to the fol. lowing postal regulation:— " Newspapers for transmission within th. colony shall be posted in single numbers so put up that the date of publication may bo readily seen. Packages of newspapers consist mg of more than one number shall be treated as bookpackages.