MAILS CLOSE.
For Lyttelton, Port Chalmers, Bluff, Australia, India, and Europe, via Suez, per b.b, Alhambra, on Monday, 13th, at 11 a.m. In consequence of the Australian mails toeingnow conveyed by British packets between Brindiei and Alexandria, a reduction iv po&tage on letters sent via Briudisi has been effected. The rates of postage to be charged in Now Zealand on correspondence for the United Kingdom, via Brindisi, will therefore be charged aa follows : — Letteqs. 6. d. Not exceeding £oz • 0 9 Exceeding £ oz, and not exceeding loz, ... 1 6 And so on, 9d, for every additional £ oz or fraction of £ oz. Newspapers under 4 oz, each ... 0 4 For every additional 4oz ... 0 4 Book and Pattern Post. Not exceeding loz ... ... 0 2 Exceeding 1 ozand not exceeding 2oz 0 4 Exceeding 2oz and not exceeding4oz 0 7 Exceeding 4ozandnot exceeding Boz 1 2 And soon, Is2d for every additional 8 oz or fraction of 8 oz. Connubial Dialogue. — Fond mother — ' Do you not think, my dear, that our Adolphus has a great tulent for saying things which nobody else ever saysP' — Unfeeling father— 'Yes, and also for saying things which nobody ever ought to say.' It is said that the war costs Germany a million sterling a day.
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Wellington Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 3119, 9 February 1871, Page 2
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Wellington Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 3119, 9 February 1871, Page 2
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