CHIEF POST-OFFICE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 238, 7 October 1891, Page 8

CHIEF POST-OFFICE.

Mails will close as under :— Thursday, October 8. For Whangamata, per Douglas, at 7 a.m. JTor New Plymouth and Southern Ports, per Gairloch. at 7.40 a.m. For Waiwera, To Kapa, and Warkworth, per Rose Casey, at 10 a.m. For Cowes. per Te Aroha. at 11 a.m. For Gisbprne, Napier, and Southern Ports, per Wairarapa, at 11 a.m. For Thames, per Argyle, at &30 p.m. lor Whitiansra, Gum Town, Tairua, and Kuaotunu. per lona, at 5.30 p.m. For Turua. per R,uby, at 5.30 p.m. Friday, October 9. For Omapere, Rawene, and Hokianga District, via Onehunga, per Glenelg, at 11 a.m. For Te Matuku, and Coromandel, per Coromandel, at 11.30 a.m. For Thames, per Argyle, at 3.30 p.m. For Tauranga and Opotiki, per Clansman, at 5.30 p.m. For Wangarei Heads, Marsden Point, Farua. Waipu, Wangarei, Kamo, Mangapai, Waikikie. Kawakavva, Opua, and Russell, per Wellington, ats.3op.m. Saturday, October 1C Per Alaraeda as follows : For Samoa (2d 4-oz.), Sandwich Islands, United States of America. Canada, British Columbia, Central and South America, British and Foreign West Indies, United Kingdom, and Contient of Europe (for letters at at 2Ad per *-ounce) at 1 p.m. For Money orders, registered letters, and newspapers. 11.30 a.m. Late letters, bearing an extra fee of 2Jd, or one Bingle rate, for United Kingdom, and all other offices, in addition to the postage, may be posted in the late letter box on board the steamerupto the time of sailing. Mailwillbe due in London November 11. For Russell, Kawakawa, and Fiji, per Oralau, at 5.30 p.m. Wednesday, October 14. For London, United Kinsrdom. Continent of Europe, etc..' via Rio de Janeiro and Plymouth (per Tainui, from Lyttelton, October 17), per Mahinapua, at 1 p.m. For money orders, registered letters, parcels, and newspapers, at noon. Mail will be due in London Nov. 29. For New Plymouth and Southern Ports, per Mahinapua, immediately after arrival of Mariposa. For India, China, Japan. Mediterranean Ports, Continent cf Europe, and United Kingdom, via Suez, per Mariposa, immediately after her arrival from Honolulu. The registration fee ia now threepence to all places. The Waipara will leave Hokitikafor Southern Ports on Oct. 20. S. B. BISS, Chief Postmaster.

Mails for the Australian Colonies, United Kingdom, and Continent of Europe, via Hobart, per Tarawera, close at Bluff on Friday, the 9th inst., at 2 p.m.