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POSTAL DIRECTORY— RATES.
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Letters posted unpaid (wholly oi- in part), addressed to the iinder-meutioned places, are charged
Is. each in addition to the ordinary postage : —
British West Indies.
Cape of Good Hope.
China.
Hong Kong
Labuan.
Natal.
Penang.
St Croix.
St Helena.
St Thomas
Singapore.
Letters for Ceylon and India are charged 9d. each additional ; and those sent to the following Gei-man
States i-id Belgium are charged 3d. per i oz., in addition to the deficient postage, per half-ounce, viz. : —
Austria.")
Baden.
Bavaria,
Bremen.
Brunswick.
Frankfort.
Hamburg.
Hanover.
Hesse, Electoral.
Hesse, Grand
Duchy of.
Hesse Homburg.
I Hohenzollern.
Lippe Detmold.
Lubeck.
Luxemburg.
Mecklenburg
Nassau.
Oldenbiu-g.
Prussia.
Eeuss.
Saxe CoburgGotha.
Sase Meiuingen.
Saxe "Weimar Eis-
nach.
Saxony.
Schaumburg Lippe.
Schleswig-Holstein.
Schwartzburg Eu-
dolstadt.
Schwartzburg Son-
derhausen.
"Wurtemburg.
Those sent to Greece, Portugal, Madeira, the' Majorca, Minorca, and Spain insufficiently pre-
Azores, and Cape de Verds, are charged 2d. per paid, are, provided one rate at least be paid,
rate in addition to the deficient postage. charged ■with double the deficiency ; and those
Letters posted wholly unpaid for Algeria and for Algeria, France, insufficiently prepaid, are
France, are charged 6d. per J oz. ; and those charged at the tmpaid rate less the value of the
posted wholly unpaid, or paid less than one stamps affixed.
rate of postage, for the Canary Islands, Ma- Those posted unpaid for the following places
jorca, Minorca, and Spain, are charged double sent by French packet, are charged with a postage
the prepaid rate. Letters for the Canary Islands, of 9d. per ^ oz. : —
Letters posted unpaid (wholly or in part) for
Belgium, Canada, Nova Scotia, Xew Brunswick,
the United States, or Holland rid Belgium, are
charged 3d. each in addition to the ordinary post-
age ; those sent to Holland via France are charged
Sd. per ^ oz., and those for Switzerland via Belgium
3d. per i oz.
The same rates are chargeable in this country
■upon letters posted unpaid wholly or in part from
the above places, except from Alexandria, Cau-o,
and Suez, i-id Southampton, China, and Holland
via France, which are charged the prepaid rate
only.
LETTEES FOE PASSENGERS ON BOARD
MATT. PACKETS.
Letters for passengers on board the Cunard
and Inman packets for America touching at
Queenstown, pro^vided they be addressed to the
care of the commander of the packet, and be
registered, may be posted in anj- part of the
United Kingdom up to the time at which ordinary
registered letters for America by the same packets
are received.
Lettei-s for passengers on board the Mediterranean
packets about to sail from Sotithamptou with the
mails for India, Australia, China, etc., or on board
the Canadian packets totiching at Londonderry,
may, under similar conditions, be posted up to tlie
same time as ordinary registered letters for India,
Australia, etc., or for Canada.
The letters shoitld be addressed thus : ' Mr.
, on board the mail packet at Queenstown
[Londonderry or Southampton]. Care of the Officer
in charge of the mails,' ' care of the commander of
the packet,' as the case may be.
Letters directed to the care of the Packet Agent
at Suez, and despatched by the mail i-id B?'i7idisi,
which follows the mail vid Southampton, will pro-
bably reach passengers for India, etc., who have
sailed in the packet from Southampton.
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