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King George’s Sound is the first and last Australian port of call of the large 
ocean-going mail steamers, but the day is probably not very far distant when the 
mail steamers will call at Fremantle (a point nearer to England than Albany) and 
land their mails, which will then be despatched by train to Adelaide. Proposals 
have already been made to the Government to construct a railway, upon the Land 
Grant System, from the Eastern Districts of the Colony to Eucla. When this 
work is accomplished, and South Australia has extended her railways to the same 
point, Perth will be connected with the capitals of all the other Australian 
Colonies. 
European Mails. 
The Outward Mails are due at King George’s Sound on Saturdays, and the 
letters should reach Perth on the following Monday; this necessarily, however, is 
often changed, owing generally to the early arrival of the mail steamers, which are 
frequently four days in advance of their contract time. The time of their prob¬ 
able arrival is therefore always cabled from Colombo, and the closing of the 
mails for the colonies at the General Post Office, Perth, is time, so as just to leave 
time to catch the steamer. They only remain as a rule about six hours in King 
George’s Sound before proceeding on their voyage. 
The Homeward Mails close at Perth on Fridays, and are forwarded by special 
train to Albany, arriving the following morning in time to catch the mail steamer, 
which is due iu King George’s Sound every Saturday. 
The mails to and fro between Beverley and Albany are conveyed by the Great 
Southern Railway, by special trains, once a week, each way. 
A Travelling Post Office has been established on the Railway between Fre¬ 
mantle and Albany, by means of which foreign mails arriving at Albany are 
sorted before reaching Perth, thus enabling the General Post Office at Perth to 
make a delivery of the correspondence received from abroad within lialf-an-hour 
alter the receipt of the mail. 
Postage Rates. 
Letters posted at any Post Office for persons residing within the limits of the 
delivery of such office:—| oz., Id.; 1 oz., 2d.; 2oz., 4d. Then 2d. per j oz., or 
traction of an ounce. 
Letters beyond such limits, but within the Colony: \ oz., 2d.; 1 oz., 4d. 
then 2d. per | oz. or fraction of ^ oz. 
Intercolonial Letters. . 
2 oz., 2d.; 1 oz., 4d. Then 2d. per § oz. Registration fee, 4d. 
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United Kingdom. 
j oz., 2fd.; 1 oz., 5d. Then 2id. per ± oz., or fraction thereof. Registration 
fee, 3d. r 
Post Cards. 
2 *L Post Cards are delivered within town where jiosted • Id. ones elsewhere 
in the Colony, and Eastern Colonies, Queensland excepted; 2d. Post Cards for 
United Kingdom, via Brindisi or Naples. 
