POST OFFIOE NOTICES.

Wellington Independent, Volume XIX, Issue 2164, 7 February 1865, Page 2

POST OFFIOE NOTICES.

MAILS CLOSE. For Picton, Nelson, New Plymouth and Auckland, per s.s. Wellington, on Thursday, at 8 a.m. Registered letters and newspapers on Wednesday at 5 p.m. Por s.s. Lord Ashley — For Canterbury, Otago, and Southland, on Thursday, at 1 p.m. For tho Australian Colonies, India, England, &c., on Thureday, at 12 noon. Registered letters and newspapers on Thursday, at 11 am. For Canterbury, Otago, Southland, the Australian Colonies, India, England, &c, per s.s. Airedale, on Sunday, the ,12th instant, at 9 a.m. For Newspapers, Registered Letters and Money Orders, on Saturday, at 5 p in. John F. Hogoard, Chief Postmaster. Post Office, Wellington, February G, 18C4.

TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS.— THE NEW POSTAL LAW. %*The new Postal Law which places a postage of one penny on each newspaper passing through the Post-Offlce requires us to intimate that from and after the Ist of February an additional charge of 3s 3d per quarter will be made for the Wellington Independent to those subscribers who receive the paper through the post We do not anticipate that the tax will last long; but meantime, while it continues in operation, wo Bhall übo every possible opportunity of supplying our up-country subscribers without making use of the post-office, so as to save the impost As many of our country subscribers can judge better than we can of any available private means of conveying newspapers to them, we shall he glad to receive clear instructions on this head from all but-lying subscribers, whom the tax will otherwise affect The tax must be borne by newspapers sent to the neigh*boring colonies, to England, and other places abroad, as well as by those poated within tho colony. Oui* rates of subscription will be as follows while the tax continues operative : — Subscription per Quarter, in advance, 10s. Additional, if posted, 3s 3d. Monthly Summary, if posted to ordor— including pottage, 7s per annum. It will he seen that this postage rate will entail Btill farther preliminary outlay of money on our part, and wa therefore request all our subscribers who are in arrear to pay their accounts without delay, so as to save further trouble