This probably has something to do with the unsatisfactory receipt of our mails. At any rate, something is wrong; very little letter mail has been received since the close of navigation—almost none from the U, S.—and incomplete paper mails, 'The new ''Imperial" mail service is not meeting all expectations, since its stamps are not forthcoming, and as it refuses to receive the old stamps of the Customs' service which it absorbs, there is no end of trouble to all interested parties, clerks, and customers in keeping registries and making payments in cash, We are in continual receipt of letters from other offices north and south carried on the old stamps, and it seems a litle inconsistent that this office should have instructions not to receive the same stomps at least until the new ones arrive. We hope there is 'a good time coming" when all this will be rectified, but that does not help the present inconvenience perceptibly.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.