MAIL NOTICES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 283, 24 August 1908, Page 10

MAIL NOTICES.

Subject to necessary alteration, mails will close at the General Post Office as under:— THIS DAT.- * i" New Plymouth and Auckland, per Manawatu train, 6.30 a.m. Motueka, via Waikawa and Admiralty Bays, per Manaroa, 2.20 p.m. Nelson, Westport, Greymouth, and Hokitika, per Alexander, 4.20 p.m. , Blenheim, per Blenheim, 6 p.m. Blenheim, per Opawa, 7.45 p.m. Picton, Blenheim, French Pass, and Nelson, also Havelock v and Bays, to connect with s.s. Elsie at Picton, per Penguin, 11.50 a.m.' • Napier, Gisborne, and Auckland, per Monowai, 3.20 p.m. Southern offices of New Zealand, per Maori, G p.m. TUESDAY, AUGUST 25. : Picton, Westport, Greymouth, and Hokitika, per Koonya,- 11.20 a.m. Southern offices of New Zealand, per Wai kare, 4.20 p.m. Nelson, Westport, Greymouth, and Hokitika, per Mapourika, 4.20 p.m. [ Blouheim, per Waihi, 5 p.m. | Southern offices of New Zealand, per Pateena, 6 p.m. ' • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26. Picton, Blenheim, and Nelson, per Penguin', 11.50 a.m. Havelock, per Manaroa, 2.20 p.m. Kaitpura, per Wakatu, 3.20 p.m. New Plymouth and Auckland, per Takapuna, 4.20 p.m. Southern offices of New Zealand, per Maori, C p.m. THURSDAY, AUGUST 27. Parcel mail for United Kingdom, per Rimutaka, 5 p.m. , ' FRIDAY, AUGUST 28. Coylon, India, China, Straits Settlements, South Africa, Lord Howe, Norfolk, and New Hebrides Islands, also Continent of Europe and United Kingdom, via Brindisi (due London, Ootober 4), per Maheno, 2 p.m. Australian States (due Sydney September 1), per Maheno, 3 p.m. United Kingdom and Continent of Europe, via Monte Video and TencrifTe (due London October 11), for specially addressed correspondence only, per Rimutpka, 5 p.m.

Mails for Australian States, per Warrimoo, close at Bluff, on Monday, August 2i, at 3 p.m. , The next .best dispatch for United Kingdom and_ Continent of Europe, will be via, Brindisi, closing at Wellington, per Maheno, on Friday, Aiigurt 28, at 2 p.m. The next best dispatch for Canada and United States of Amcrica will be via Vancouver, closing at Wellington, per Manawatu train, on Tuesday. September 1, at 6.30 a.m. All books and md newspapers for placcs within the Dominion must be posted half an hour before the'ordinary letter mail closes. Unless otherwise specified, registered letters and parcels post packages must" bo handed in and money orders obtained one hour before th« ordinary mail closes. Mails for Australian States. Norfolk, lord Howe, and Xsew Hebrides Islands, per Vio> fcona, closp at Auckland, to-day, at 4.15 p.m. Extended Notice.—Mails for Fiji close at Westport, per Den of Ruthven, to-dar, at G.SO p.m. •T. A. m T TTON, . Cli'ef I'ostmastor. Chief Post Office, Wellington, August 2i, 190 S. ' .

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