Foreign Mail Fees Table




197 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Colony or Foreign Country. Registration Fee from United Kingdom. s. d. Observations.
Hong Kong, Gibraltar, Malta, Antigua, Ba
hamas, Berbice, Demerara, Dominica, Gre
nada, Honduras, Jamaica, Montserrat,
Nevis, St. Vincent, St. Lucia, St. Kitts,
Tortola, and Tobago
0 6 (A) Alexandria, Jaffa, Beyrout,
Tripoli in Syria, Latakia,
Alexandretta, Messina, Rhodes
Smyrna, Myteline, Darda
nelles, Gallipoli, and Con
stantinople, including Scu
tari.
France and Algeria, or the following countries,
the correspondence of which is forwarded,
as a rule, through France, viz: the places in
Turkey (A), Syria, or Egypt at which
France maintains Post Offices, Luxembourg,
Baden, Bavaria, Würtemburg, Sardinia,
Switzerland, Salonica, Tunis and Tangiers,
Tuscany, Parma, and Modena, Papal States,
Two Sicilies and Greece.
An additional amount exactly equal to the
amount of Postage British and Foreign.
Any of the following countries, if specially
addressed via France, viz.: the Netherlands,
Prussia (B), German States, Hanover,
Saxony, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Mecklen
burg-Strelitz, Brunswick, Oldenburg (the
Principality of Berkenfeld excepted), An
halt, Austrian Dominions, Servia, Denmark,
Moldavia, Wallachia, Turkey in Europe (the
places at which France maintains Post
Offices excepted), via Austria, Sweden,
Norway, Poland, and Rrussia......
0 9 (B) Hohenzollern, Birkenfeld,
Hesse Homburg, Lippe-Det
mold, Schwartzburg-Rudol
stadt, Reuss, Nassau, Saxe
Coburg-Gotha, Saxe Meinin
gen-Hildburghausen, Hesse
Electoral, Hesse Darmstadt,
Saxe - Weimar - Eisenach,
Frankfort on the Maine,
Hamburg, Bremen, and Lü
beck.
Prussia, or any of the following countries,
when not addressed via France (C), Ger
man States, Hanover, Saxony, Mecklen
burg - Schwerin, Mecklenburg - Strelitz,
Brunswick, Oldenburg (the Principality of
Birkenfeldt excepted), Anhalt, the Austrian
Dominions, Servia, the Ionian Islands, Den
mark, Moldavia, Wallachia, Turkey in Eu
rope (the places at which France maintains
Post Offices excepted), via Austria, Swe
den, and Norway
0 9 (C) Hohenzollern, Birkenfeldt,
Hesse-Homburg, Lippe-Det
mold, Schwartzburg-Rudol
stadt, Reuss, Nassau, Saxe
Coburg-Gotha, Saxe-Mein
ingen-Hildburghausen, Hesse
Electoral, Hesse Darmstadt,
Saxe Weimar - Eisenach,
Frankfort on the - Maine,
Hamburg, Bremen, and Lü
beck.
Any of the following countries, if specially
addressed via Prussia, viz.: Luxembourg,
Baden, Bavaria, Würtemburg, Sardinia,
Switzerland, Papal States, and Greece
0 9
Belgium and the Netherlands 0 6
Russia and Poland (D) 1 0½ (D) A Registered Letter for
Russia and Poland is liable to
three Fees, viz.:
British ............ 6d.
Prussian ........ 3d.
Russian....... 3½d.
but this last (the Russian fee)
increases according to the
weight of the letter, 3½d. be
ing charged when the letter
does not exceed half-an-ounce;
7d. when it weighs more than
half-an-ounce, but does not
exceed one ounce; and so on;
according to the British
scale.
United States 0 6

NOTE.—This Table is only applicable to Letters addressed to the several places specified
when sent through the United Kingdom.



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10 December 1858
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