POST-OFFICE, SHORTLAND-STREET.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVI, Issue 3962, 4 May 1870, Page 4

POST-OFFICE, SHORTLAND-STREET.

Mails for the undermentioned places will close as follow : — For Thames and Coromandel, this day, at 9.30 a.m., 1.30 p.m. and 5.30 p.m. For Taranaki and the Southern Provinces, per s.s. Rangatira, this clay, May 4, at 9 a.m. Late letters and telegrams for transmission from the Nelson station will be received at this office till 9. 30 a.m., and at Onehunga till 10.30 a.m. For Taranaki and the Southern provinces of New Zealand, per s.s. Plicebe, tomorrow, at noon. Foi Tauranga, per s.s. Tauranga, this day, at 3.30 p.m. Mails per s.s. Hero will close this day, May 4, as under : — For India, China, Mediteranean ports, Continent of Europe, &.C., at 1 p.m. For the Australian colonies, at 2 p.m. For the United Kingdom, via Suez, for letters specially so addressed, at 2 p.m. Fer money orders, registered letters, and newspapers, at 12 noon. Mails via San Francisco, per s.s. City of Melbourne, will close this day, the 4th May, as under : — For Vancouver's Island, British North , , -America, United States, Central and South America, We3t Indies, and Continent of Europe, at noon. For Sandwich Islands, at noon. For the United Kingdom, at 1 p m. For money orders, registered letters, and newspapers, at 11 a.m. Late correspondence for the United Kingdom, bearing a fee of 6d. in addition to the postage, will be received till 1.30 p.m., and on board the s.s. City of Melbourne, by the mail agent, until time of sailing.

Note. — The rates of postage chargeable on letters sent via San JFrancisco are the same aa those on letters sent via Suez and Southampton. S. B. BISS, .*>-.*' . '- , Chief Postmaster.