routes, the use of the stamp would probably be small, and the fact that it was found upon newspapers alone would account for the disappearance of specimens. We shall see from the next notice I give that the provisional Three Penny stamp was in use down to the 1st November, 1865. This notice is taken from _The Gazette_ for October 21st, 1865, and runs as follows: “NOTICE. “GENERAL POST OFFICE, _28th September, 1865._ “It having been found necessary to issue a new postage stamp to meet the requirements of the Postal Ordinance, 1864, notice is hereby given that from and after the 1st November next the stamp at present in use will not be received by the Post Office Department. Persons in possession of the stamp at present in use may exchange the same on application at any of the Post-offices of British Columbia on or after the 1st November. “(Signed) WARNER R. SPALDING, _Postmaster-General_.” The new postage stamp mentioned in the above is obviously the Three Pence, blue, with large fancy letter “v” and Crown in the centre, which is catalogued by M. Moens as issued on the 20th June, 1861, the date, we have seen, the provisional Three Penny stamp came into use. Like that provisional, I think it is possible the Three Pence, blue, may also have been divided to prepay the one penny newspaper rate; but future research will, I hope, definitely determine in each instance whether or not such was the case. The following list of Post-offices, with the names of the Postmasters, was published in _The Gazette_, for April 14th, 1866. The list is chiefly interesting as showing upon what a small scale the Postal Service of the country then was, as at that time there were only sixteen Post-offices opened throughout the whole colony. LIST OF POST OFFICES IN BRITISH COLUMBIA. ----------------------------------+------------------------ PLACE. | POSTMASTER. ----------------------------------+------------------------ New Westminster | W. R. Spalding, P.M.G. Hope | A. S. Hall. Douglas | Richard White. Lillooet | T. H. Sharwood. Yale | L. Agassiz. Lytton | W. M. Cochran. Ashcroft[A] | C. F. Cornwall. Clinton | J. Champness. Lake La Hache | W. Anderson. Soda Creek | J. T. Sanay. Quesnelmouth | F. Mevor. Van Winkle | L. Cahn. William’s Creek | Fort Shepherd | John Jane. Columbia River, Big Bend District | Kootenay | ----------------------------------+-------------------------