POST-OFFICE NOTICES.
Mails, per Taranaki, for Otago and Southland, will close at Christchurch and Lyttelton at 5 p.m. on Suturd iy, the 9th inst. On and after January 1, 1867, late letters for Hokitika and Greymouth, by payment of an extra sixpenny stamp upon each letter, can be posted at the Chief Post-office, Christchurch, till 10 p m. every Monday and Thursday ; and for Timaru, till 10 p.m. every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. On and after the Ist January, the Oxford and Moeraki Downs mails will dose at Christchurch at 8 a.m. every Tuesday and Friday, instead of Monday, YVednesday, and Friday ; and for Hurunui at 8 a.m. every Monday, instead of Mondays and Wednesdays, as heretofore. Mails for Addington will in future close at the Chief Post-office, Christchurch, at 10.30 a.m. every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, and for St. Albans at 9.15 a.m. on the same day. On and after this date the South road mails will close at the Chief Post-office, Christchurch, at 6 p.m. every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, instead oi 5 p.m. as heretofore. Leeston—Mails will close at 11.15 a.m. every Tuesday and Saturday. Prebbleton—Mails will close at 11.15 a.m. every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. Post-offices will be established on the Ist January at the under-mentioned places :— Clanricarde—Mails will close at 2.45 p.m. every Saturday. Springston—Mails will close at 11.15 a.m. every Tuesday and Saturday. Eyreton—Mails will close at 8 a.m. every Tuesday and Saturday. The following alterations will take effect in the arrival and departuio of mail steamers at and from Lyttelton, for the month of February, 1867: — Arrive from North, sth, 9th, 16th, 24th. Arrive from South, 4<h, 16th, 21st, 2«th. f~r Vorth, 4th, 17th, 2lst, 27th. Depart for South, 6th, lOth, 16ib, 24tb. In consequence of newspapers being frequently posted in packages of more thaa one number, the same are detained at the Chief Post-cffice, andattention is called to the following postal regulation: — "Newspapers for transmission within the colony shall be posted in single numbers, so pu* up that the date of publication may be readily seen. Packages of newspapers consisting of more than one number, shall bo treated as book packets." F. E. Weight, Chief Postmaster. Chief Post-office, Christchurch, February 7, 3 867.
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Press, Volume XI, Issue 1329, 9 February 1867, Page 2
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