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My Lords have every reason to believe that similar satisfactory results would attend an augmentation in the rate of postage on letters to the Australian Colonies and New Zealand, and they therefore request that the Duke of Newcastle will inform the Governments of those Colonies that, on 1st July next, the Postage on all letters despatched from this country to those Colonies, via Southampton, will be raised to one shilling the half-ounce letter, and the Postage on letters sent via Marseilles will be raised to one shilling and fourpence the half-ounce letter, but that at the same time, with a view to relief being afforded to the correspondence of the poorer class of emigrants, the Postage on letters conveyed by private ship will be reduced to 4d. the half-ounce letter:

My Lords further request that the Duke of Newcastle will in making communication to the Governments of the respective Colonies, observe to them that each Colony will be at liberty to alter to such extent as it may think proper the Postage on letters despatched to or through the United Kingdom.

I am to state farther that my Lords propose that simultaneously with the raising of the Postage on letters to the Australian Colonies and New Zealand the scale of weight should be modified and made to correspond with the scale recently adopted in respect of letters exchanged with the British West Indies, Cape of Good Hope, &c. Under this amended scale one rate of Postage will be charged for each half ounce that a letter may weigh, so that a letter weighing more than an ounce but not more than 1½ ounces, will be charged three rates of Postage, a letter weighing more than two ounces but not more than 2½ ounces, four rates of Postage, instead of five and six rates respectively as under the existing scale of progression.

It will, however, be for the Colonial Post Offices to decide whether they will adopt these changes with regard to letters despatched to or through the United Kingdom or not, as they may feel disposed.

I have, &c.,

Sir F. Rogers, Bart. F. Peel.

In the Supreme Court of New Zealand, Otago and Southland District.

In the matter of the Petition of MATTHEW PRICE, of Invercargill, in the Province of Southland, a Debtor and a Creditor of the said MATTHEW PRICE, and in the matter of the "Debtor and Creditors Act, 1862."

NOTICE is hereby given that his Honor the Judge has appointed Monday, the nineteenth day of September, 1864, at 10 o’clock in the morning, at the Court House, Dunedin, for hearing the above Petition Dated at Invercargill, this twenty-sixth day of August, 1864.

S. M. South,
Solicitor for the Petitioner.

INVERCARGILL TOWN BOARD.

ELECTION OF THREE MEMBERS.

IN pursuance of the provisions of the "Town Board Ordinance, 1863," I, the Superintendent of the Province of Southland, do hereby appoint the Electors entitled to vote for Members for the Town of Invercargill, in the Provincial Council of Southland, to assemble upon Friday, the sixteenth day of September, in the office of the said Board, for the purpose of electing three legally qualified persons who shall be Members of the Town Board under the provisions of the Ordinance aforesaid, in the room of

G. M. K. Clarke, Esq.,
W. H. Calder, Esq.,
K. M’Ivor, Esq.,

whose seats are vacant under the provisions of the Ordinance aforesaid: And I hereby appoint J. C. Hunter, Esq., of Invercargill, Returning Officer, to preside at the said meeting; and in the event of a Poll being demanded, I hereby appoint the polling to take place in the office of the said Board, on Saturday, the Seventeenth day of September, 1864.

J. A. R. Menzies,
Superintendent.

Superintendent’s Office,
Southland, September 2nd, 1864.

WALLACETOWN PUBLIC POUND

August 23rd, 1864.

IMPOUNDED this day, 1 Dark bay gelding, branded MO off shoulder. S (within circle).

1 Bay gelding, white tip on nose, white hind fetlocks, branded like B near shoulder.

If not claimed to be sold at the pound here on the twenty-sixth inst, at 12 o’clock noon.

F. Pelling,
Poundkeeper.