MAIL NOTICES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 179, 24 April 1908, Page 10

MAIL NOTICES.

Subject to necessary - alteration, mails will close at the Chief Post Office as under:— . THIS DAY. >; .... New 'Plymouth'' and Auckland, per Manawatu train, G. 30 aim. Blenheim, per Blenheim, 3.20 p.m. Blenheim, per Waihiy 4.20'■ p.m. ■ ■ • Nelson, Wcstport, G.roymouth, aiid Hokitika, pel' Charles Edward, 4.20 p.m. • , Picton, Blenheim, French Pass, and Nelson, per Pateena, 11.50 a.m. ; Ceylon, India, China, Straits. Settlements, South Africa, and Lord Howe, Norfolk, Now Hebrides, and Banks Islands,,,also .Continent of Europe, and United Kingdom, via Brindisi (due London, May 31), per Warrimoo, 2 p.m. Australian States (duo Sydney, ' April 28), •per .Warrimoo. 3 p.m. , • Southern Offices' of New" Zealand, per Victoria, 3.20 p.m. . ' Southern Offices of New Zealand, also Australian States, to 'connect witli Waikare at the Bluff, per Maori, .6 p.m.; ' SATURDAY, APRIL 25. . ■ Australian.; States, ,to connect with s.s. Manuka at Auckland,Y<per Mariawatu train, 6.30 a.m.. '. ' t ■ ' • Tonga, Samoa, and Fiji, to connect with s.s. Atua at Auckland, per Manawatu train, G. 30 a.m. Picton,' Blenheim, Nelson, Westport, Greymouth, and. Hokitika, per Arahura,-11.50 a.m. /Southern Offices of New Zealand,/per Katomahana, 7.45 p.m. \ . , : Nelson, per Rotoiti, 7.45 p.m. . , MONDAY, APRIL 20. Picton, Blenheim,' French Pass, Waikawa, Bay, and Nelson, per 'Pateena,' 11.50 a.m. , Kaikoura, per Wakatu, '3.20 p.nt. "Westport, Greymouth, and Hokitika, per. Ivoonya, 1 p.m. $ Southern Offices of New, Zealand,' per Maori, G p.m. • ' ; ilotueka, per Mauaroa, 2.20 p.m. The-.next-best despatch for Continent of Europe' 1 and United Kingdom will bo via Briudisi, .closing at Wellington, per Warrimoo, to-day, at 2 p.m, .Mails for the United Kingdom and Continent of Europe, per Whakarua, close at the Bluff to-morrow, at 7 p.m. (Correspondence must bo specially addressed.) . : All books and sample-packets and newsEapers for places within tliti" Dominion must e posted lialf-an-liour before the ordinary letter-mail closes. v . Unless otherwise specified, registered letters and parcels-post packages must be handed in and money-orders obtained one hour before the ordinary mail closes. ■ J A. BUTTON, . \ ' Chief Postmaster. ApVil 24, 100 S. MAILS TO ARRIVE.-. : The Inveric, which left San Francisco oh April 10 for Auckland, has 225 bags of. mail for New Zealand. Tho mail should reach Auckland about May 8. We can imagine Hindus .'dying for their country under special stress of feeling,-but to live and work sensibly and practically for their mother-land, as they are fond of calling it', seems far from tlj'o, thoughts' of tho modern Indian agitator.—"Pioneer Mail," Allahabad. \ At a conference on the Shop Horns Act hold at St. Pancras, Mv. Bird, the Mayor of Shorediteli, said; lie-had many', married assistants iii his shops who only sawthei rfamilies in daylight onco a. ,wcnk. " Such a thing is a scandal," ho declared, " but .1 have to kjßop my shops opon. because others do."