Local Intelligence. 



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Amount of Postage received at the 

 General Post Office, Cape of Good 

 Hope, from 1st March, 1798, to 3Ut 

 December 1820. 



Years. 



Currency. 



1826 

 1827 



1828 

 1829 



£. 

 1884 

 2705 

 3232 

 3577 



sks. 

 6 

 3 

 6 

 6 

 1 

 5 

 2 

 3 



7 

 5 



7 

 4 

 2 

 4 

 1 

 o 

 1 

 2 

 1 

 5 

 5 

 2 

 6 

 7 



sts. 



s. 

 7 



18 



7 



2 

 2 



2 



4 



6f 



I 



In 1829, the amount of Postage for 

 the District of Beaufort is not included ; 

 it may he estimated at £ 45, making a 

 total of £3622: 7: 11 J. 



Present Rate of Postage. 



A single Letter from Cape Town to 

 Caledon 5d. Swellendam 7d. George 

 9d. Graham's Town and Graaff-Reinet 

 Is. Bathurst, Port Frances, Somerset, 

 and Beaufort, Kid. Clan William 8d. 

 Worcester 7d. and Simon's Town 3d. 



The Rates established on the 30th 

 November, 18UJ, and which existed till 

 the present ones, or those of October, 

 1826, were a very little lower. Pre- 

 vious to 1816, the charges were less 

 clearly defined. 



