MAIL NOTICES.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 11871, 19 April 1904, Page 9

MAIL NOTICES.

Mai]a cloee for the following place* at under, subject to the nece«*arv alterations: — Mails per express to Dunedin and South close daily at 10.30 a.m.; late fee (i.e., letters beering Id additional stamp), 10.40 a.m.; also on mail van, up to 11 a.m.; books and nevripafers, 10 ajn. TCESDAY, APRIL 19. For Greymouth,- per Pareora, et Z p.m.j late fee letter*, 3.15 p.m.; guard's van, A p.m.* train. For Port Bobineon and Kaikoura, per Kennedy, at 6.2S p.m.; late fee letters, 6.40 p.m.; guard's yon, 7.45 p.m. train. For Northern Ports and Weetport, pel Rotomahana, at 7.20 p.m.; late fee letters, 7.SS p.m.; guard's van, 8.35 p.m. train. •WEDNESDAY, APKIL 20. For Dunedin, per Tarawera, at 11.10 sun.; late fee letters, 11.20 a.m.; guard's van, 13.10 p.m. train. For Northern Porte end Westport, per Tβ .Aran and Zealandia, at 7.20 p.m.; late fee letters. - 7.86 p.m.; guard's van, 8.35 p.m. train.' ■ * • , FRIDAY, APRIL 22. For Australian States (due Sydney Aprijl 27th), and South Africa, efeo Northern Port* and Weetport, per Victoria, at 3 p.m.; late fee letters, 3.15 p.m.; guard's van, 4 p.m. train. ' I Mails for South Africa-dose at Melbourne on April 20th, 23rd, and May Brd. The next best despatch for the United < Kingdom is via San Francisco, leaving Christchurch on April 28th, and due London Mar 28th. Mails for Baratonga aad Tahiti, per T*vluni, doM st Auckland on April 19th, at 4 pjn. Moils lor Crouiarty, Puyeegur Point, And Te Onerau, per Invercargill, clone, at Invercorfrill on April 21st, at 3.20 p.m. " i Maile for Fiji, Canada. United States, - United Kingdom, etc., via 'Vancouver, pax Moura, close at Auckland on April 20th, at , 10 a.m. J. F. McBETH, Chief Postmaster. I vac surprised on glancing at a j*ge deroted to children's pastimes in & oailj nevepaper to find a game- highly recomm«nded, "because it enables the children to share in the search for gold which i» such a popular pastime just now with their elders." The particular alluded to us nothing more than a gamble. Honey » hidden in a decorated cardboard boat, and tiie child who gueases the exact spot where it Jβ concealed gets it J Eear-Ad»iral C. D. Lucas, whose nane ha* been mentioned in connection with the 48fch anniversaiT of the institution of the Victoria Croat, enjoys the "* distinction of having been the first recipient of -that much-ooveted honour. The act of (flanepicuoua bravery, on June 2lst, 1884, by * which he secured it, consisted in throwing ' overboard, during lite campaign in the Baltic, a live sliell wbfieh had fallen on board the Heela. The V.C. had to origin during the Crimean War, when Queen Victoria felt that come recognition of the personal daring and heroism of lier soldiers in that terrible struggle was needed; and it is said that the designs for the first Cross were made by no leas a person that the late Prince Consort. Both the Cross and its bar are made made from bronze which formerly formed part of Kuasian guns captured in the Crimea.