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S POSTAL INFORiMATION.
The N'ewcastle Postoffice is open from
7 a.m. to 5 p.m daily.(Sunday excepted).
On Sunday froin 7 a.m. to 8 am.
There a·re~ 12 city iron letter-receivers,
viz.: in Blanc, Hunter and Watt, Hunter,
H? unter and Brown,.Blane.street West, Lake.
road, W6lfe and Tyrrell streets, The Terrace
and Bingle streets, Bull and Corlette streets,
Mary and Melville streets, and opposite
Wood' Brewery.
The city letter-carriers deliver three times
a, day.-lst. at 7.30 am.; 2nd..at 12 noon.
and 3rd at 4 p.m., the latter only as far as
the A. A. Co'e. bridge and upon the Hill.
Mails close half-an-hour previous to de.
liveries.
On holidays there is only one delivery; at
7.30 a.m On Sundays the office is open
from 7 a.m. to 8 a m. for delivery of letters.
Private boxes are open daily from 7 a.m.
unitil. 11 p.m., and on Sundays from.7 a.m.:
,to 12.30 p.m. - ....
There is one delivery in the suburbs daily.
(Sundays excepted) at 8.30 a.h. -
Miails close for Northern districts at 6 a.m.
Mails close for Sydney andi Southern dise:
,tricts at 9.,0 ppm. ' '
SPenny postage rates for letters' extend
within a 10:mile radius of Newcastle.
Town letters posted in town delivered
within a radius of ten miles from Newcestle,
not exceeding }oz, id; for every 'additional:
foz Id. Country letters, under ½oz, 2d;
every additional ½oz 2d.. Letters containing
gold transmitted withbin the colony, not
exceeding loz, 4d; every additional' ounce
or part 4d..
I .Intercblonial 'letters: New :. Zealand.
Queensland, South,. Australia,: Tasniania,
Victoria, and West Australia, not exceeding
boz, 2d ; every additional toz 2d.. :. ?'
United Kingdom: Via .California. and
Suez,'not exceeding .oz, 6d ; every additional
oz Gd. Via Colonibo and Brindisi, not ex
ceeding 5oz, 6d; every'?additional'oz Gd....
SLetters can be registered by affixini
stamps to the value' of 4d. Letters can be.
posted fifteeni minutesdafter the stated time
of closing, on payment of the late fee of 2d.
M oney orders may be obtained and made
payable at any Money Order Office in New.
South Wales, Victoria. South Australia,
Now Zealand, Queensland, Tasmania,
Weljtern, Australia, Great Britain, India,
Cape of Good Hope, Canada, United States_
'of Ainerica, 'Germany,' China, and'Japan..
Informition 'as to rates can be obtained from.
anriyf.the offices Telegraph money orders
mhay' -be transmitted 'from this colony to,
Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, and
Queensland, on payment of the usual tele.
graphic charge on a. message of teh words.
-Although:the letter-boxes in the pas;'
seuger steamers which ply between.Newcastle'
and., Sydney, are not under the control,
strictly.speaking, of the Postal Departrnent'
yet lit. is usual with business people ;ii'aid
others to take advantage of the boats' de.
parture by pdsting letters for Sydney up to
11 p.mfi. 4ightly (Sunda's included).: · .'
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