MAIL NOTICES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1076, 15 March 1911, Page 9

MAIL NOTICES.

Subject to necessary alterations, mails will close at the Chief Post Office as under:—

THIS DAY, WEDNESDAY, MABCH 15. Wanganui, New ' Plymouth, also, Manawatu, Itangitikci, and Taranaki. districts, per Manawatu traiu (Thorndon Station), 6.30 a.m. . (.-■. .

Wanganui, also Manawatu and liangitikei districts, nor Manawatu train (Thorndon Station), 5 p.in.

Wairarapa district, per Wairarapa train (Lambton Station). 6.30 a.m. and 2.30 p.m.

Napier and liawkc's Hay district, per Manawatu train (Thorndon Station), 8 a.m. and 3 p.m.

Auckland and district, also New Plymouth and Wanganui, per Main. Trunk train (Thorndon Station), 11.15 a.m.

Picton, Blenheim, and Nelson, per Patecna, 11.50 a.m.

Havclock and Bays, per. Manaroa, 2.20 p.m.

Wcstport, per Komata, 2.20 p.m. Blenheim, per Opawa, 7.45 p.m. Nelson, Westport, lteeftou, Grcymouth, Hokitika, per Kennedy, 4.20 plm. Nelson, per Corinna, 5 p.m. ' ■Parcel, mail for...United Kingdom and Continent of Europe, per Maori. 5 p.m..

Southern offices of New Zealand, and Greymouth, Hokitika, and Keefton, also Maiden Island, • to connect ■ with barque Pleione at Timaru; also Uuitcd Kingdom and Continent of.Europe, via Monte Video and Teneriffe, duo London April 27 (for specially addressed correspondence only) to connect with s.s. Kimulaka at LvtteHou, per Maori, 6 p.m. THUHSDAY, MAKCH 16. ' Nelson, per Nikau. 4.20 p.m. Southern offices of New Zealand, per Mararoa, 6 p.m.

FRIDAY'. ■■ MAHOH 17. Kaikoura, per' Wakatu, 3.20 p.m. Ceylon, India.~-Ohina,'Straitß Settlements, South Africa, p,lsp,;Cc.r.tinent ,of. Europe, United Kingdom, Canada, and Eastern States of United' Slates of America, via Naples (duo London April 22), per Uliniaroa, i 3 p.m. Australian States and Now Guinea (due Sydney March 21), per Ulrmaroa, 3.30 p.m. (Money-orders must be obtained two hours before the advertised time of closing tho mails.)

Mails for Australian States and South Africa close ,at Auokland, por Moldavia, this day, at 3.45 ,p.ru'.

Maito for Canada, 'United States of America, West'lndlcSy United Kingdom, and Continent of E,uropc. ,via Fiji, Fanning Island, Honolulu, aud Vancouver, close at Auckland, pol'".Nilvua, this day, at 11.45 a.m. ';•—.: Mails for Continent of Europe and United Kingdom, via,.Monte Video and Teneriffe (for. specially .".ddressed correspondence only), close at Lyttclton, per liimutaka, Thursday, Fsbi;ua.ry 16, at 9 a.m.

Mails for Cromarty, Puysegur Point, and To Oneroa, close at tho Bluff, per Invcrcargill, on Thursday,, February 16, at 6 p.m. Mails for Maiden. Ijland.closo.at Timaru, Friday, March 17, at iioon, per barque Pleione. ■ .•,,,,,.-, /■; . , , All the principal mails 'by train and steamer closo. at.Te ■ Aro and Courtcnay Place Post Offices' at the' samo hour as at the Chief Post OfTlnd, with tho exception that there is no late-fee rloarancc.

Unless otherwise specified, registered letters and parcels-post packages must be handed in and money-orders obtained ouo hour before the ordinary mail closes, D. MILLEII. Chief Postmaster. Chief Post Office. Wellington, March'ils, 1911.

Japan has ordered five Wright biplanes. Fifty-one metal's'arc'known "to exist j four hitii(irod ,| j'«ai'S'iiso only seveir were known.

Hungarian twins who wore born inseparably joined together arrived at King's Cross recently from Edinburgh, and the person in whoso charge they were gave, up. a single ticket. The officials argued that they ought to have paid a doublo fare, but contented thomslvos with talcing tlio name and address of the man accompanying them. Tho object, of (ho sisters' visit to Loudon was to undergo an examination by members of tlio General Medical Council,

Reporting on the English poultry industry in 101(1, Mr. Edward Drown, 1'.1i.5., says that during the year the demand for eggs and poultry has grown rapidly, more especially for the better qualities of homo produce. Wholesale merchants and retailers, some of whom have heretofore dealt exclusively in foreign supplies, have found that they must provide finer and better qualities, and, therefore, have been compelled to look to native produce. For such higher qualities, except during tho season of scarcity, prices have advanced.