MAIL NOTICES.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 9668, 5 March 1897, Page 6

MAIL NOTICES.

Mails close for the following places as under, subject to the necessary altera, tions:—

FRIDAY, MARCH 5.

For Dunedin and Invercargill, per Tars, wera, at 1.45 p.m. ; late fee letters, 2 p.m.; guard's 2.45 p.m. train. For Northern Ports and Australian Colonies, via Wellington, also Souttb. America, United Kingdom and Continent df Europe, for correspondence addressed via Rio de Janeiro, per Maori, from Wellington (due London April 25th), per Wakatipu, at 3 p.m.; late fee letters, 3.15 p.m.; guard's van, 4 p.m. train.

SATURDAY, MARCH 6.

For Dunedin, Invercargill and Australian Colonies, via Bluff, Ceylon, India, China, <-c, also United Kingdom and Continent of Europe, for correspondence marked " Via Suez," per Waihora, to connect with Tarawera, at 12.30 p.m.; late fee letters, 12.45 p.m. ; mail van, 1.25 p.m. train. Due London April 21st. For Northern Ports per Te Anau,, at 4.20 p.m.; late fee letters, 4.35 f.m.; guard's van, 5.30 p.m. train. For Northern Ports, per Penguin, at 7.45 p.m. ; late fee letters, 8 p.m.; guard's van, 9.15 p.m. cram.

Mails leave Sydney for Noumea on 11th March. ■"'.'■• Mails for South Africa, per Nineveh, leave Melbourne on March sth..

Mails for Fiji, per Richmond, close at Auckland on March 6th, at 4 p.m. Mails for Norfolk I_land close at Auckland, per Southern Cross, on March 27th, at 11 a.m v

A Money Order and Savings Bank Office has been opened at Greendale. Note.—From Ist March the letter-boxes on guard's vans on slow trains running between Christchurch and Oamaru will he open to the public to post letters bearing Id extra postage as late fee. ' .„ • .

R. KIRTON, Chief Postmftster.