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Surveyor-General's Office,
29th August, 1843.

NOTICE is hereby given that an Officer of
this Department will be in attendance at
Wood's Hotel, Kororareka, between the 18th
September and 2nd October next, to survey the
boundaries of land at Kororareka, the claims to
which, under the Land Claims' Ordinance, have
been confirmed—when all parties concerned are
particularly requested to attend either personally
or by authorized agents.

C. W. LIGAR,
Surveyor General.

General Post Office,
Auckland, 1st September, 1843.

NOTICE is hereby given, that from and
after the 6th instant, or so soon thereafter
as this Notice shall be received at the following
Post Offices, respectively,

Wellington,
Nelson,
New Plymouth,
Petre,

Kororarika,
Hokianga,
Waimate,
Akaroa,

the several Regulations now in force for the
transmission of Letters and Newspapers, and
levying rates of Postage in New Zealand, will
cease and determine, and in accordance with the
directions of Her Majesty's Postmaster-General,
under the authority of a Warrant of the Lords
Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, dated
31st August, 1841, and pursuant to the provi-
sions of an Act of the Imperial Parliament, 3 &
4 Victoriæ, cap. 96, the following Rules and
Regulations for the conveyance of Letters and
Newspapers, and fixing rates of postage there-
on, will take effect, of which all persons con-
cerned are required to take notice.

1. The Colonial postage due on letters inten-
   ded to be sent out of the Island, must be paid
   when the letter is posted, as it cannot be col-
   lected either in the United Kingdom or in other
   British Colonies.

2. The rate of sea-postage to be taken at the
   port of departure in New Zealand, on all letters
   dispatched by ship, not intended to pass through
   the United Kingdom, is four-pence for a letter
   not exceeding half an ounce; and the following
   is the scale of rates to be charged on letters
   exceeding half an ounce, viz.

Above half an ounce and not exceeding one
ounce, two rates.
Above one ounce and not exceeding two ounces,
four rates.
Above two ounces and not exceeding three
ounces, six rates.
Above three ounces and not exceeding four
ounces, eight rates.

And for every ounce above four ounces two ad-
ditional rates are to be charged, and every frac-
tion of an ounce to be charged as one additional
ounce. Each rate to be estimated and charged
at four-pence.

3. In addition to the charges for sea postage,
   a further sum of four-pence per half ounce, and
   so on in proportion, according to the scale
   already laid down, must be charged for any
   inland conveyance of letters that have arrived,
   or which are intended to be dispatched by pri-
   vate ships, should any inland posts be estab-
   lished in New Zealand. This rate of four-pence
   having been fixed by the Treasury for the con-
   veyance of all letters within the Colony, whether
   by sea or land.

4. When letters or newspapers are re-directed
   from one part of the Colony to another, they
   will be chargeable with a new and distinct rate
   of postage for the re-direction, according to the
   scale herein laid down, over and above the
   postage previously due upon them.

5. A gratuity of two-pence per letter, and one
   penny for every newspaper, is payable to the
   commander of any private vessel conveying let-
   ters on account of the Post Office; but on
   letters or newspapers dispatched to the United
   Kingdom, or to any of the British Colonies
   named below, this gratuity is not to be paid, as
   the Captains will receive it on the delivery of
   the letters at their port of destination, and the
   Postmasters in those Colonies will be so in-
   formed:

Quebec,
Halifax,
Bermuda,
St. John's, (New-
foundland,)
Jamaica,
Barbadoes,
Dominica,
Antigua,
Nevis,
St. Kitts,
Tortola,

St. Lucia,
St. Vincents,
Tobago,
Greneda,
Trinidad,
Berbice,
Demerara,
Bahamas,
Carriacou,
Montserrat,
Malta,
Gibraltar.

6. With respect to letters or newspapers in-
   wards by private ships, no gratuity will be pay-
   able on those in a sealed mail from the United
   Kingdom, as it will have been already paid, but
   on all other letters arriving by ships at New
   Zealand, a gratuity of two-pence per letter will
   be paid.

7. Letters and Newspapers arriving from the
   United Kingdom, or from any of the British
   Colonies before named, in a sealed Post Office
   bag, must be delivered free of all sea postage,
   as it will have been previously paid when the
   letters or newspapers are posted. Letters how-
   ever from any other parts, or loose letters brought
   in any ship's bag, not having been forwarded
   through the Post Office at the place of depar-
   ture, will be subject on arrival in New Zealand,
   to the sea postage of four-pence the half ounce,
   and so on in proportion according to the scale
   already laid down; and in those cases also the
   gratuities to the commander will be paid in New
   Zealand.

8. All newspapers, whether British, Foreign,
   or Colonial, conveyed by the Post between places
   in New Zealand, will be chargeable with an
   internal rate of postage of one penny each.

9. All newspapers received at New Zealand,
   whether by packet-boat or private ship, from a
   foreign country, will be liable to a sea postage