MAIL NOTICES.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 9670, 8 March 1897, Page 6

MAIL NOTICES.

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

MONDAY, MARCH 8.

For Akaroa, per Brunnor, at 10 a.m. ; late fee letters, 10.15 a.m. ; guard's van, 10.55 a.m. train.

For Timaru, per Aotea, at 12.30 p.m.; late fee letters, 12.45 p.m.; guard's van, 1.25 p.m. train. For Northern Ports also South America, United Kingdom and Continent of Europe, for correspondence marked "via Rio de Janeiro,' per Maori from Wellington (due London April 28th), per Corinna, at 3 p.m.; late fee letters, 3.15 p.m.; guard's van, 4 p.m. train. For Port Robinson, Cheviot and Kaikoura, per Wakatu, at 6.25 p.m. ; late fee letters, 6.40 p.m. ; guard's van, 7.45 p.m. train.

TUESDAY, MARCH 9.

For Northern Ports, per Penguin, at 7.45 p.m.; late fee letters, 8 p.m.; guard's van, 9.15 p.m. era in.

Mails leave Sydney for Noumea on 11th March.

Mails for Australia, &c, per Tasmania, close at Auckland, on March Bth, at 4.30 p.m;

Mails for Tonga, Samoa and Fiji, per Taviuni, close at Auckland on March 11th, at 4 p.m.

Mails for Raratonea and Tahiti, per Upolu, close at Auckland on March 17th, at 4 p.m. Mails for Norfolk Island close at Auckland, per Southern Cross, on March 27th, at 11 a.m.

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 betweenJUhristchurch and Oamaru will be open to the public to poet letters bearing Id extra postage as late fee.

R. KIRTON, Chief Postmaster.