MAIL NOTICES.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 9815, 26 August 1897, Page 6

MAIL NOTICES.

Mails close for the following places as under, subject to the necessary alterations :— THURSDAY, AUGUST 26. For Australian colonies via Bluff, also South Africa (per Thermopylae, leaving Melbourne 2nd September), "per express (to connect with Wakatipu at Bluff), at 10.30 a.m. ; late fee letters, 10.40 a.m.; mail van, 11 a.m. train.

For Timaru, per Tongariro, at 3 p.m. ; late fee letters, 3.15 p.m. ; guard's van, 4 p.m. train.

For Northern Ports and Weetport, Australian colonies (via Wellington), Ceylon, India, China, &c, and specially addressed correspondence for United Kingdom and Continent of Europe, via Suez, per Waikare, at 6.25 p.m. ; late fee letters, 6.40 p.m. ; guard's van, 7.45 p.m. train. Due London October 12th.

For Northern Ports aui Westport, also United Kingdom and Continent ot Europe (for correspondence addressed per Tokamam), per Rotorua, at 7.45 p.m.; late fee letters, 8 p.m. ; guard's van, 9.15 p.m. train. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1. For Northern Ports, Samoa, Hawaiian Island?, United States, Canada, &c, United Kingdom, and Continent of Europe, via Kan Francisco (due London October 6th); also Sjuth America, United Kingdom, and Continent of Europe (per Tongariro via Monte Video due London October 14th), perTakapuna, at 7.45 p.m. ; lato fee letters at 8 p.m.; guard's van, 9.15 p.m. train ; money orders at 4 p.m. ; registered letters and parcels at 5 p.m. ; books and newspapers at 7.39 p.m.

Mails for South Africa leave Melbourne on 2nd and 10th September. Mails for Tonga, Niue, Samoa, and Fiji, per Taviuni, close at Auckland on 26th August, at 4 p.m. Mails for , Raratonga and Tahiti, per Upolu, close at Auckland on Ist September at 4 p.m. Mails for British New Guinea and Solomon Islands leave Sydney on 31st August. Mails for Noumea, Fiji and New Hebrides, leave Sydney on 9th September.

K. KlftTOW, Chief Postmaster.