THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 341
markers (whether of paper or otherwise), in the case
of books, and, in short, whatever is necessary for the
safe transmission of literary or artistic matter, or
usually appertains thereto.
Patterns or samples of merchandise may also in
future be sent to Belgium at the same rates of
postage as book packets, and subject to the following
regulations :-

1. The patterns or samples must not be of in-
   trinsic value. This rule excludes all articles
   of a saleable nature, and indeed whatever may
   have a value of its own apart from its mere
   use as a pattern or sample; and the quantity
   of any material sent ostensibly as a pattern
   or sample must not be so great that it can
   fairly be considered as having on this ground
   an intrinsic value.
2. There must be no writing or printing in addi-
   tion to the address of the person for whom
   the packet is intended, and the address of the
   sender, other than a trade mark and numbers,
   and the prices of the articles; and these parti-
   culars must in all cases be given, not on loose
   pieces of paper, but on small labels attached
   to the samples or the bags containing them.
3. The patterns or samples must be sent in covers
   open at the ends, so as to be easy of examina-
   tion. Samples, however, of seeds, drugs, and
   so forth, which cannot be sent in open covers,
   may be enclosed in bags of linen or other
   material, tied at the neck; or the bags may be
   entirely closed provided that they be trans-
   parent, so that the officers of the Post Office
   may be able to satisfy themselves as to the
   nature of the contents.
4. No article likely to injure the contents of the
   mail bags, or the person of any officer of the
   Post Office, may be sent through the Post as
   a pattern.
   If either of the foregoing rules be infringed the
   packet must not be forwarded.
   I am, &c.,
   F. J. SCUDAMORE.
   The Postmaster-General, Wellington.

POSTAL.
Patterns of Merchandise may be transmitted by Post
to and from Germany, through the United King-
dom, under the same regulations as printed papers.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 1st November, 1865.

THE following Despatch respecting the transmis-
sion of Patterns of Merchandise to and from
Germany by post through the United Kingdom, is
published for general information.

E. W. STAFFORD,
Postmaster-General.

General Post Office, London,
12th July, 1865.

SIR,—Referring to my letter of the 13th February
last, I am directed by the Postmaster-General to
inform you, that arrangements, similar to those
recently made with the Italian Post Office, have been
concluded between this Department and the Post
Office of Prussia, under which patterns and samples
of merchandise may be forwarded by the Post
through the United Kingdom from Germany, to any
of the British Colonies between which, and the
United Kingdom, patterns can be sent, at the same
reduced rates of charge as books.
These arrangements will apply to patterns from
Germany addressed to New Zealand.
The German and British postage will, in all cases,
be paid in advance, and the packets of patterns will
be delivered over to your office as book packets from
Germany are delivered over, that is, without any
claim, and, consequently, they will be liable, on
delivery, to the Colonial Inland rate only.
The Postmaster-General hopes that the Colonial
postal regulations in New Zealand will admit of such
patterns from Germany being charged with no higher
rate of postage than is charged on books having the
same origin.
I am directed, at the same time, to state that, if
the Government of New Zealand should consider it
desirable to forward patterns and samples, through
the United Kingdom to Germany, such an arrange-
ment can be adopted. In this case, the postage to
be collected in advance and accounted for to this
office for patterns addressed to Germany, will be the
same as is collected and accounted for on books
addressed to Germany.
The following are the States of Germany to which
the new arrangements referred to apply, viz.—
Prussia, Austria, Bavaria, Saxony, Hanover, Wur-
temburg, Baden, Luxemburg, Brunswick, Mecklen-
burg-Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Oldenburg,
Hamburg, Bremen, Lubeck, and the countries which
are included in the postal district of the Principality
of Tour and Taxis, viz.—Frankfort on the Maine,
Grand Duchy of Hesse, Hesse (Electoral,) Hesse-
Homburg, Schaumburg - Lippe, Lippe - Detmold,
Nassau, Reuss, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Saxe-Meiningen,
Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Hohenzollern, Schwartzburg-
Rudoldstadt, and Schwartzburg-Sonderhausen.
I am, &c.,
F. HILL.
The Postmaster-General, Wellington.

POSTAL.
Money Order Branch.
General Post Office,
Wellington, 2nd November, 1865.

THE following Notice issued from the Treasury,
New South Wales, is published for general
information.

E. W. STAFFORD,
Postmaster-General.

The Treasury, New South Wales,
4th August, 1865.

Post Office Money Orders.

WITH reference to Treasury Notice of the 10th
December, 1862, published in Government Gazette,
No. 231, it is hereby notified that on and after the
1st September, 1865, the Post Office Money Order
System will be extended to the following place,
VIZ.:—

MORPETH.
T. W. SMART.

POSTAL.
Post Office at Greymouth to be Post Office of the
Second Class.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 14th November, 1865.

IT is notified for general information that on and
after the 1st December next, the Post Office at
GREYMOUTH,
in the Province of Canterbury, will be constituted a
Post Office of the Second Class, for the exchange of
separate Mails, and other purposes within the
meaning of the fourth clause of the Postal Regula-
tions of 1st April, 1862.

E. W. STAFFORD,
Postmaster-General.