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NEWSPAPERS.

Printed Newspapers shall be conveyed by the Post free of Postage, provided they be sent without a cover, or in a cover open at the sides, and there be no writing thereon, or upon the cover of the same, except the name and address of the person to whom sent, and that no paper or thing be enclosed in or with any such paper. And every paper or packet which shall be contrary in any respect to the conditions hereby required to be observed, shall be charged with the duty of Postage to which it would have been liable as a letter.

Printed Prices Current and Commercial Lists, not exceeding two ounces in weight, shall be forwarded through the Post under the same regulations and privileges as Newspapers.

ARMY AND NAVY LETTERS.

Non-Commissioned Officers, Captains, Stewards, Seamen, and Soldiers, may send and receive letters not exceeding half an ounce in weight by the Post, on their own private concerns only, while they are employed on her Majesty’s service, at the rate of one penny for each letter. And with respect to letters sent or received by any such privileged persons the following conditions shall be observed, that is to say,--the Postage of each letter (unless sent from parts beyond the seas) shall be paid on being put into the Post Office, and upon such letter shall be subscribed the name of the writer and his class or description in the vessel, regiment, corps, or detachment to which he belongs, and signed by the officer having at the time the command of the vessel, or of the regiment, corps, or detachment to which the privileged person belongs.

Whenever the letters sent or received by any such privileged persons shall be sent from parts beyond the seas, without the said Postage of one penny being prepaid, every such letter shall be charged to the party receiving the same with a rate of two pence, and any letters received by the Post, under this regulation, by any such privileged persons, which may have been redirected shall not be charged with any Postage for such redirection.

This Proclamation shall take effect from and after the day of the date hereof.

Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Islands of New Zealand, at Government House, at Wellington, in the Province of New Munster, in the Islands aforesaid, this eighteenth day of December, in the year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-two.

G. GREY,
Governor-in-Chief.

By His Excellency’s command,
ALFRED DOMETT,
Civil Secretary.

God Save the Queen!

NOTE.—It will be observed that the only amendments in the above regulations, are the exclusion of Deeds, Law Proceedings, and Law Papers, from the class of Documents passed through the Post Offices at reduced rates, and the reduction of the penalty on newspapers, papers, or packets not fulfilling the conditions required to be observed, from treble the rate they would have borne as letters, to a single such rate.

ALFRED DOMETT,
Civil Secretary.

PROCLAMATION.

By His Excellency Sir George Grey, a Knight Commander of the most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor & Commander-in-Chief, in and over the Islands of New Zealand, and Governor of the Provinces of New Ulster and New Munster, and Vice Admiral of the same, &c., &c., &c.

I, THE GOVERNOR of the Province of New Munster, Do hereby Proclaim, that at 12 o’clock, on Monday the twenty-fourth day of January, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-three, the Sub-Treasurer will put up to Auction, at the Land Office, Nelson, the undermentioned Allotments of Land, hereby declared to be within the limits of the Settlement.

Immediate payment in Cash to be an indispensable condition of Sale.