POST-OFFICE NOTICE.

Press, Volume XI, Issue 1370, 29 March 1867, Page 2

POST-OFFICE NOTICE.

Mails, per Panama, New Zealand and Australian Royal Mail Company's steamer, for Sydney. Brisbane, and the Northern ports of ( New Zealand, will close at Christchurch at Ha m., and at Lyttelton at 2 p.m., on Friday, the 29th inst. Mails per N.Z.S.N. Company's steamer, for Otago and Southland, will close at Christchurch at 8 a.m , and at Lyttelton at 11 a.m. on Friday, the sth proximo. Mails per P.N Z. and A.R.M. Company's steamer, for the United Kingdom, the Continent of Europe (via Panama), America, and the Northern Ports of New Zealand, will close at Christchurch at 10 a.m., and Lyttelton at 1 p.m., on Saturday, the 6th proximo. Registered letters at 5 p.m. on Friday, the sth. Money orders must be procured at Christchurch before 3 p.m., and at LytteHonbefore 1 p.m., on the sth proximo. Late letters for places beyond the colony by payment of an extra shilling stamp, and for places within the colony by payment of an extra sixpenny stamp upon each letter, can be posted at Christchurch till 1 p.m., and Lyttelton till 2.15 p.m., on Saturday, the 6th proximo. 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. I Eyreton —Mails will close at 8 a.m. every Tuesday and Saturday. Prebbleton —Mails will close at 11.15 a.m. every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. Clanricarde —Mails will close at 2.45 p.m. every Saturday. Mails for Addington will in future close at the Chief Post-office, Christchurch, at 10.30 am. 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 ot 5 p.m. as heretofore. On and after the Ist January, tho Oxford and Moeraki Downs mails will close at Christchurch at 8 a.m. every Tuesday and Friday, instead of Monday, Wednesday, and Friday ; and for Hurunui at 8 a.m. every Monday, instead of Mondays and Wednesdays, as heretofore. In consequence of newspapers being frequently posted in packages of more thao one number, the same are detained at the Chief Post-cfllce, andattention is called to the following postal regulation : — "Newspapers for transmission within the colony shall be posted in single numbers, so put up that the date of publication may be readily seen. Packages of newspapers consisting of more than one number, shall be treated as book packets." F. E. Weight, Chief-Postmaster. Chief Post-office, Christchurch, March 25, 1867.