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Evening Star, Issue 10213, 15 January 1897, Page 3

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< The amount of revenue oolleoted at the Customhouse otr roods cleared to-day for consumption Was £1,266125. POST OFFICE NOTICES. ■ Mails close at the Chief Post Office, Dunedin (subject to any necessary alterations), as under;--Overland, North, daily, 10.30 a.m. Late letters, guard’s van, II a.m. Monday, January 18. For Southland, Australian Oolonles(via Hobart), t, China, Japan. Mediterranean ports, Straits mienta. Continent of Europe, United King* -Per Talune, at 2.50 p.m. . (Money orders, registered letters, books, and newspapers, at 1.50 p.m. ' . ' Parcel post mails for the Australian Colonies will close at 3;30 p.m. on the 16tb. Late letters, 3.35 p.m. Port train. Supplementary mails for the above offices will close at 3.30 p.m., per 4.20 p.m. train (to connect with the Talune at the Bluff). SAN FRANCISCO MAIL SERVICE. , Wednesday, January 20. For Northern Ports, Samoa, Sandwich Islands, United States of America, Canada, South America. West Indies, United Kingdom, and Continent of Europe, at II) a.m. Money orders at 9-15 a.m.; book packets and newspapers, 9 a.m. 20th. Registered correspondence at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, 19th. Late letters, beating an additional single rate of postage (2Jd) os a late fee, can be posted in the mail van attached to the North train, leaving Dunedin railway station at 11 a.m.,oa the 20ttn The above mail will close at the branch Post Offices, - North Dunedm aftd South Dunedin—for money orders and registered letters at 5 p.m. on the 19th; letters at 9.30 aim., and newspapers at 5 a.m. on the 20th. At the Port Chalmers Office at 8.45 a.m. on the 20th; money orders at 4 p.m. and registered letters at 5 p.m. on the 19th, Mails for Karatonga and Tahiti will dose at Auckland, per Richmond, on Wednesday, January 20, at 4 p.m. ' Al&ilr for Australian Colonics* Gsyloni India, China, Japan, and Straits Settlements, Continent of Europe, United Kingdom (via Brindisi), for specially addressed correspondence only, close at Wellington, per Wakatipu, on Saturday, 1 p.m. From the Ist January. 1897, parcel post rates of postage to the United Kingdom are reduced to Is for the first pound and Bd for each subsequent pound. (Signed) Edm. Cook, Chief Postmaster. Chief Post Office, January 15,1897.