MAIL NOTICES.

Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 142, 18 December 1905, Page 6

MAIL NOTICES.

Subject to necessary alterations mails will close »t the Chief Post Olllce as under:— For New Plymouth and Auckland, per Maua- • w»tu train, daily, 6.30 a.m. MONDAY, 18th DECEMBER. For Southern Offices of New Zealand, per ilnraroa, 6 p.m. TUESDAY, 19th DECEMBER. For Picton, Blenheim, Nelson, Westport, Greymouth. and Hokitika, per Mapourika, 11.20 o.m. For Napier, GJsborne, and Auckland, per Talune, 1.20 p.m. For Southern Offices of New Zealand, per W»ikare, 3.20 p.m. For Southern Offices of New Zealand, per Rotomahattt, 6 p.m. For Picton, per Wainui, 7.45 p.m. WEDNESDAY, 20th DECEMBER. For Nelson, per I'ateena, 3.20 p.m. For New Plymouth and Auckland, per Talcapuna, 4.20 p.m. Parcel mail for United Kingdom, per Ritnuttka, 5 p.m. For Southern Offices of New Zealand, per Marnroa, 6 p.m. SATURDAY, 23rd DECEMBER. For Ceylon, India, China, Straita Settlements, South Africa, and Lord Howe, Norfolk, New Hebrides, and Banks Islands, also Continent of Europe and United Kingdom, via Naples (due London 4th February, 1606), for specially addressed correspondence only per Wurrimoo, 1 p.m. * For Australian States (due Sydney 27th inst.) per Warrimoo, 2 p.m. For Southern Offices of New Zealand, per Rotomahana, 7.45 p.m. Monday, 25th December (Ohrijtmas D«v). being a Post Office holiday, all branches of the Post Office will be dosed. A delivery of letters, usually delivered by letttr-csrriers, will take place over the publio counter, Chief Post ''Office, between the hours of 8.30 and 9.30 p m on Saturday, 23rd December. Mail* for despatch on Monday, 25th December, will close at 6 a.m. '■Tuesday, 26th December (Boxing Day), the >Post Office will he open in all Ua branches (except Money-order and Savings-bank), between ihe hours of 9 and 10 a.m. only. All country mails will be despatched by both the early trains as iiauul. The next best despatch for Continent of sEurope and United Kingdom will bp via Ban FrancUco, closing at the Chief Post Ofhce, Wellington, on Thursday, 28th inst., at 6.30 a.m. (due London 27th January, 1906). Money orders for despatch by this mail must be procured before 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Z7tli inst. All registered correspondence mid parcels for United States must be presented before 5 p.m. on Wednesday, 27th inst. Unlesi ofcherwi«e specified, registered letteri must be handed in »nd money orderi obtained one hour before, ond parcels-post mail! thirty minutes before, the ordinary mail cloiei J. A. HITTTON. Chief Poitma'iter.