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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
RATES OF POSTAGE, ETC.—continued.

COUNTRIES, ETC.

STRAITS' SETTLEMENTS, including Malacca, Penang,
Singapore, Wellesley, &c.—
By direct mail via Galle or Torres Straits,—See Indian
Archipelago.
... 0 6 0 6 0 6 1 ... 0 2 0 1 0 2 0 3 0 6 0 3
SUEZ,—By direct mail
... 0 6 0 6 0 6 ... 0 2 0 1 0 2 0 3 0 6 0 3
via San Francisco
... 0 8 0 8 0 8 ... 0 2 0 1 0 2 0 3 0 6 0 3
SWEDEN,—See Norway.
SWITZERLAND,—
via San Francisco and England
via Suez and Southampton
By direct mail to Brindisi
} 0 8 0 8 0 8 ... 0 2 0 1 0 2 0 3 0 6 0 3a
... 0 9 0 9 0 6 ... 0 2 0 3 0 2 0 3 0 4 0 7 0 4a
SYRIA,—See Turkey.
TANGIERS AND TUNIS,—
via San Francisco and England
By direct mail to Alexandria
... 0 8 0 8 0 8 0 6c 0 2 0 1 0 2 0 3 0 6 0 3
... 0 8 0 8 0 8 ... 0 1d 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 4 0 2
TASMANIA,—See Sea Islands.
TUNIS,—See Tangiers.
TURKEY AND THE LEVANT, including Candia, Cyprus, ex-
cepting Beyrout,—
By direct mail to Suez
via San Francisco and England
... 0 7 0 7 0 7 None. ... 0 2 0 1 0 2 0 3 0 6 0 3a
... 0 8 0 8 0 8 None. ... 0 2 0 1 0 2 0 3 0 6 0 3a

TURKEY,—Including Levant—continued.
Beyrout, Constantinople, Dardanelles, Gallipoli, Larnica,
Mytelene, Rhodes, Salonica, Samsoun, Tchesme, Tenedos,
Trebizond, Tultschia, and Varna,—
via San Francisco and England
... 0 8 0 8 0 8 ... 0 2 0 1 0 2 0 3 0 6 0 3a
UNITED KINGDOM,—
via San Francisco
via Suez and Southampton
via Brindisi
} 0 6 0 6 0 6 1 ... 0 2 0 1 0 2 0 4 0 6 0 3
... 0 8 0 8 0 6 ... 0 3 0 1 0 2 0 4 0 6 0 3
VANCOUVER ISLAND,—See America.
VIENNA,—See Austria.
WEST INDIES (BRITISH), except British Honduras, Jamaica,
and Trinidad,—
via San Francisco
via Suez and Southampton
via Brindisi
— British Honduras, Jamaica, and Trinidad,—
via San Francisco
via Suez and Southampton
via Brindisi
} 0 10 0 10 0 10 ... 0 2 0 1 0 4 0 5 0 7 0 5
... 0 5 0 8 0 8 ... 0 2 0 1 0 3 0 6 0 3a
... 0 7 0 7 0 8 ... 0 3 0 2 0 4 0 6 0 9 0 4
... 0 10 0 10 0 10 ... 0 2 0 1 0 4 0 5 0 7 0 5
... 0 9 0 9 0 9 ... 0 2 0 1 0 3 0 5 0 7 0 5
... 0 11 0 11 0 8 ... 0 3 0 2 0 5 0 8 0 4

WEST INDIES (FOREIGN),—Cuba, Curacao, Porto Rico, St.
Croix, St. Thomas, St. Martin's, St. Eustatius, Guade-
loupe, Martinique, and the Republic of Honduras and
Salvador,—
via San Francisco
via Suez and Southampton
via Brindisi
— Hayti and St. Domingo,—
via San Francisco
via Suez and Southampton
via Brindisi
... 1 4 1 4 0 8 3 ... 0 3 0 5 0 10
... 0 9 0 9 0 8 ... 0 2 0 1 0 3 0 6 0 3a
... 0 11 0 11 0 8 ... 0 3 0 2 0 5 0 8 0 4a
... 1 4 1 4 0 8 None. 3 ... 0 3 0 5 0 10
... 1 5 1 5 0 8 None. ... 0 2 0 1 0 4 0 6 0 4
... 1 7 1 7 0 8 ... 0 3 0 2 0 4 0 6 0 5

a. Newspapers and book packets must not exceed 2 lb. in weight, and pattern parcels must not exceed 8 ounces in weight. Pattern parcels must not exceed 8 inches in
length, 4 inches in width, and 2 inches in depth. b. And an amount equal to the Foreign postage. c. And 3d. per quarter of an ounce additional. d. An
additional charge will be made on delivery.

Correspondence addressed to the Continent of Europe which may be forwarded via Southampton may also be forwarded via Brindisi, upon
payment of the following additional rates:—
Letters, not exceeding ½ oz., 2d.; and for every additional ½ oz., 2d. Book Packets, not exceeding 1 oz., 1d.; 1 oz. to 2 oz., 2d.; 2 oz. to
4 oz., 2d.; every additional 2 oz., 1d. Newspapers (each), not exceeding 4 oz., 1d.; every additional 4 oz., 1d.

NOTE.—No letter or other packet (whether registered or otherwise) containing either gold or silver money, jewels, or precious articles, or any
article liable to Customs duties, can pass through the post to any of the following countries comprised within the General Postal Union—viz.,
Austro-Hungary, Belgium, Brazil, Canary Islands, Ceylon, Denmark, Egypt, France, French Colonies, Germany, Gold Coast, Greece, Hongkong, India
Italy, Labuan, Lagos, Luxemburg, the Netherlands, Netherland Colonies, Norway, Portugal, Portuguese Colonies, Roumania, Russia, Senegal, Sierra
Leone, Servia, Straits Settlement, Spain, Spanish Colonies, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, and the United States, and also British India.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson, Knight Grand Cross
of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief
in and over Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same
and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this eighth
day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine.

J. T. FISHER.

Approved in Council.
FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!