MAIL NOTICES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 202, 20 May 1908, Page 10

MAIL NOTICES.

Subject'to necessary alteration, mails will close at the Chief Post Office as under:— ' . THIS DAY. 7 Now Plymouth'and Auckland, per Maiiawatu train, 6.30 a.m. Picton, Blenheim, Nelson, Westport, Grey■mouLh, and Hokitika, per Taieri, 11.20 a.m. , Picton, Blenheim, and- Nelson, per Pateena. 11.50 a.m. . ' Blenheim, per Blenheim, 3.20 p.m. i ' New Plymouth and Auckland, per Takauuna. 4.20 p.m. ' Parcel mail for United Kingdom, per lonic, 5 p.m. Southern Offices of New Zealand, per Maori, 6 p.m. Blenheim, per Opawa, 7.45 p.m. THURSDAY, MAY 21. United Kingdom, and Continent ol Europe, via Monte Video, Rio de Janeiro, and Tcnoriffo (due London July 3), for specially addressed correspondence only, per lonic, 10 a.m. Kaikoura, per Walcatu, 3.20 p.nu Napier, Gisborno, Auckland, also Australian States (due Syduey, May 29), per Moana, 4.20 p.m. Southern Offices of New Zealand, also Australian States (due Melbourne May 30), nor Moeraki, 4.20 p.m. Southern Offices of New Zealand,'per Mararoa, 6 p.m. FRIDAY, MAY 22. Picton, Blenheim, French Pass, and Nelson, per Pateena, 11.50 a.m. Ceylon, India, China, Straits Settlements, South Africa, and Lord Howe, Norfolk, New Hebrides, and Banks Islands, also Continent of Europe and United Kingdom, via Briiidisi (duo London June 28), per Maitai, 2 p.m. Australian States (due Sydney May 26), per Maitai, 3 p.m. ' ; Southern Offices of New Zealand, per Victoria, 3.20 p.m. • Southern Offices of New Zealand, also Australian States (to connect with s.s. Moeraki at the Bluff), per Maori, 6 p.m. SATURDAY, MAY 23. Australian States (to connect with s.s. Moana at Auckland), per Maiiawatu train, 6.30 a.m. Picton, Blenheim, Nelson, Westport. Greymouth, and Hokitika, per Arahura, 11.50 a.m. Southern offices of New Zealand, per Mararoa, 7.45 p.m. Nelson, per Rotoiti, 7.45 p.m. Mails for Chatham Islands, per Ripple, close at Lytteiton this day, at 3 p.m. The next best dispatch for Continent of Europe and United Kingdom will bo via Briiidisi, closing nt AVellington, per Maitai, on Friday, May 22, at 2 p.m. The. next best dispatch for Canada and Unjted States will bo via Vancouver, closing at Wellington, per Manawatu train, on Tuesday, Juno 9, at 6.30 a.m. All books and. sample-packets and newspapers for places within the Dominion must be posted half an hour before tho ordinary letter-mail closes. Unless otherwise specified, registered letters and parcols-post packages must be handed in and money-orders obtained one hour bofore tho ordinary mail closes. J. A. HUTTON, Chief Postmaster. May 20.

Messrs. Wiso and Knight advertise.a number of country properties for sale. District orders ,by the New Zealand Defence Forco are advertised to-day. Tho Otago Harbour Board, by advertisement, invites tenders for tho sum of .£20,000 in debentures of .£IOO each, having tw<nty-six years to run.

Tho farm of 103G acres, advortised by Messrs. Dalgoty and Company, Limited, for sale by auction on June 1, is attracting a considerable amount of attention. It is close to Wellington, and is stated to be suitablo for both dairying and sheep farming, besides providing sport of all classes. It is expcctod that competition will bo brisk. Mr. W. P. Hcaly's opening auction sale of drapery, furs, household linens, kitchcn. utensils, Manchester goods, crockcry, etc., is elsewhere advertised to take plaeo at his auction rooms, Cuba Street (opposite To Aro House), .commencing on Thursday, at 2 p,;n. The salo will bo continued on Friday and Saturday, commencing at tho same hour each day.