MAIL NOTICES

Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 101, 15 January 1923, Page 10

MAIL NOTICES

Subject to necessary alterations, malls will close at the Chief Post Office, as under - TjHg DAY (MONDAY). ! Picton, Blenheim, and Havelock, via Picton, per Wainui, 10.45 a.m. Australian States, per Makura at Auckland per Main Trunk train. 10.45 a.m. Parcel mail for United. Kingdom and Continent of Europe; also Montevideo ana Teneriffe, 3 p.m. , . Nelson, French Pass, and Havelock, also mails and express transit-paid parcels for Beefton, and Westport, per Nikau 5 P Southern offices of New Zealand: also mails and express transit-paid parcels for Westport, Greymouth, Hokitika, and Reefton, per Wahine, 6 p.m. TUESDAY, JANUARY 16. Westport, per Komata. 10.45 a.m. Mails for United Kingdom and Continent of Europe; also Montevideo and leneriffe, per Tairoa, 10 a.m. reach Loudon approximately February 28. Correspondence must be addressed per iair°Parcel mail for Australian States, via Melbourne, 11 a.m. Parcel mail for America, Rarotonga, and Tahiti, 11 a.m. , United States of America, Canada, Mexico. West Indies, via San Francisco: also United Kingdom and Continent of Europe, per Maunganui, 1 n.m. Cook Islands (including Raratonga, Altutaki, Mauke, Atiu, Manihiki, Penrhyn, Mangaia); also Tahiti, per Maunganui. 1 p.m. Mails due London about February 20. Money-orders must bt» obtained by States, via Melbourne, eel Moeraki, 3 p.m. Westport, Greymouth, Hokitika, anq Re.efton, per Regulus, 3.45 p.m. Nelson, Havelock and Blenheim, per Ngalo, 5 p.m. „ . Southern offices of New Zealand: also mails and express transit-paid parcels for Greymouth and Hokitika, per Maori, • p.m. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 17. Bulwer, Crail Bay, Elaine Bay, Homewood, Manaroa, Pohuenui. Okoha. WaM> tahuri, Waitata Bay; also private bags for Brightlands, Eli Bay, Hikoekoea. Hopaj. Port Ligar, Te Puru. Waihohonu. Forsyth Island, per Nikau, 4 p.m. MAILS CLOSE DAILY. Mails for southern offices, per ferry steamer, close at 6 p.m. „ Wanganui and Rangitikei district, 7.30 a.m., 11.20 a.m., and J p.m., 4.30 mm. New Plymouth and Taranaki district, 7.30 a.m., 11.20 a.m. Manawatu district, 7.30 a.m., and 3 p.m.. late fee 3.15 n.m. Wairarapa district, 3 a.m.. 6 a.m., 3 p.m., lata fee 3.15 p.m. Napier and Hawke’s Bay district. 1 a.m., 11.20 a.m.. and 3 p.m.. 4.30 p.m. Auckland and district, 11.20 a.m.: late toe. C.1’.0. 11.35 *i.m.. railway station 12.40 p.m. Parcel malls tor Auckland and district, 3 p.m. . OUTGOING OVERSEA MAILS. Mails, for Australian State*. South Africa, and the East, close at Wellington Thursday, January 18. at 10.45 a.m., connecting with Manuka gt Auckland, closing Friday, January 19. at 9 a.m. INCOMING OVERSEA MAILS. (Arrival dates approximate only.) R.M.S. Maunganui left Sydney for Wellington on January 11. She carries 53 bags Australian mail, 2 from beyuud Australia, arid 101- parcel-receptacles for Wellington; due here January 15. R.M.S. Makura left Suva for Auckland on January 12. She carries 170 bags mail tor Wellington; due here January 16. H. Q. GBOCOW, Chief Postmaster. Chief Post Office, Wellington, January 15. 1923.

Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., Palmerston North’, report having a moderate yarding of both sheep and cattle nt the Feilding sale on January 12. There was a keen demand for fshh-en and )the maiprity -of cfAtilei changed hands. Quotations: Cull b.f. lambs, Ils. Id.: medium b.f. lambs, 2()5.; b.f. lambs, to 21s. 6d. ; w.f. woolly lambs, to 21s. 6d.: small mixed 2-tooths, 245. 6d.; lisht fat cows, £3 15s. to £4; 3-year steers, to £4 18s.; weaner Jersey heifers, £2 135.: bulls, £4 to £5 ss. Tlio New Zealand Farmers’ Distributing Co., Ltd., report having held their weekly sale in their Colombo Road yards, when they offered 2300 sheep and 100 head of cattle to large attendance of buyers from all parts of the Wairarapa. A total clearance was made at- the following prices;—4-tooth wethers, on account of J. L. Murray, 275.; 2-tooth wethers, on account J. P. Perry, 245. 6(1. ; 4-toot-h wethers, 2Ss.; other prices were 2 and 4-tooth wethers, 245.; medium rape lambs, 19s. 3d.; smaller ditto, 13s. 7d.; fat. ewes, 235. 7d. ; forward ditto. 20s. ; cull 2-tooth wethers, 15s. ; black polled 15-month steers, £3 155.; others, £2 12s. 6d. to £3 25.; cows and calves. £2 17s. 6d. io £3: forward cows, £3 to £3 3s. ; fat cows, £4 Is., £4 25.. to £4 ss. ; fat, 2-yea,r steers, £4 7s. 6d. to £4 11s. to £4lss. : store niers. 21«.

Jackal fur, which cost 10s. a skin a few years ago, and was regarded by all furriers as “hideous,” has now become fasnionable, and the price has risen to £4 4s. a skin.