2 MAY 1903, Page 3

In the Commons on Thursday Mr. Austen Chamberlain made some

interesting announcements in regard to his Depart- ment,—the Post Office. In future there will be a complete new set of postal orders, forty in number, ranging from six- pence by sixpenny increments to twenty shillings. Further- more, to prevent petty pilfering, it will be impossible to change stamps into money at a post office on less sums than a pound, and even then the money will not be paid over the counter, but remitted to an address given. The small postal orders will be a convenience if, as we presume, they are sold for their face value, and no fee is charged on them.