Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-08-11
new GERMAN
POSTAL RATES
Regulations Changed Between Aus.
tria, Denmark and the United
States-Foreign Countries Fall.
ing in Line on Standard Rates.

According to new postal orders re.
ceiyed by Postmaster Pratt today
from Washington, the rate Of postage
IRON here to Germany has been reduced
to two cents. The rate between Den.
mark and the United States has been
changed on parcel post mail from $50
for four pounds, six ounces, to $50 for
eleven pounds. and the rate on pack.
ages will be twelve cents pound. I'm.
called for mail from Austria In the
future will not be returned but will be
held for two months TO ascertain name
of sender. Postmaster General Hitch.
cocks orders read as follows:
1t Is hereby ordered, The Postal Ad.
ministration OF Germany having con-
Cured therein. that, commencing on
the LIST of August. 1909, the rate OF
postage applicable to letters mailed in
Hawaii addressed for delivery in Ger.
many shall be two t2) cents an ounce
or fraction of an ounce.
Notice Is given hereby that com.
mencing on the same date. the postage
rate applicable to letters mailed in
Germany addressed for delivery in
Hawaii will be ten (10) pfennigs for
each twenty t20) grams or fraction OF
twenty grams.
Letters unpaid or shortpaid will be
dispatched to destination, but double
the amount OF the deficient postage.
calculated at the rates above indicat.
ed. will he collectible of addresses up.
On the delivery of unpaid or shortpaid
letters.
The Postal Administration Of Den.
mark and this Department having
agreed thereto. the limit OF weight
and value applicable to parcels admis.
sible on and after the LIST of August,
1909, to the parcelpost mails ex
changed between Denmark and the
United States will be eleven pounds
and eighty dollars. instead of -four
pounds six ounces and fifty dollars, re
spectively. as at present.
The postage rate applicable In the
United States to parcel.post packages
for Denmark will be twelve cents 70,
each pound or fraction OF pound. ful
prepayment being compulsory.
BY virtue of the authority conferred
by Article XII of the Parcel-Post Con
vention between the United States and
, Austria, Article TX Of that Convention
has been modified by agreement be
tween this department and the Posta
Administration OF Austria, so as to
provide that II a parcel cannot be de
livered to or is refused by the adj
dressee, the sender shall be consulted
respecting its disposal. provided tina,
II the sender OF the parcel Is not heard
from within two months from the dat,
Of the inquiry addressed to him, the
parcel shall be treated as abandoned
h Pursuant to the above
II Is hereby ordered That on and
after the first OF August. 1909, par
GELS received from Austria which fol
any cause cannot be delivered, shall
no longer be returned to Austria n
the expiration Of thirty 1901 days from
the date OF receipt at destination, as
is the present practice, but shall b,
held for a period of two months. unit
the sender can be communicated will
In the manner prescribed In paragraph
2. OF section 705 Of the Postal Law,
and Regulations, Edition Of 1909, ant
section l27, on page ia of the Posta
Guide for July, 1899.
BOSTON RESTAURANT.
GOOD MEALS FOR Is CENTS.