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Evening Star, Issue 10395, 17 August 1897, Page 3

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The amount of revenue collected at the Custom* bouse on (mods cleared'for consumption to-day was JEBB7 3Ss MINING NOTES. The Dunedin dredge washed up for last week 40oz Idwt. - • The Upper Waipori Alluvial Gold Dredging Company, Limited, obtained last week from No. 1 dredge, 16oz 3dvvt of gold.for 137 hours’ dredging : and from No. 2 dredge, lOoz lOdwt of gold for 135 hours’ dredging. The Dunedin Stock Exchange report the following dredging returns for last week ‘.—Golden Treasure, 440z; Golden Gate, 230z; Otago, SBoz Bdwt. , 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, mail van, II s.tn. Wednesday, August 18. For Northern Ports.—At 10.30 a.m. (overland to Lyttelton, to connect with Westralia). Late letters. North express, 11 a.m, . Friday, August 20. • For Lyttelton and Christchurch. Per Te Anau, at 2.20 p.m. Late letters, 0.P.0., at 2.30 p.m, . ■ ~ DIRECT MAIL SERVICE. Wednesday, August 18. The direct steamer Gothic will leave Lyttelton for Plymouth via Rio "de Janeiro oh Thursday, 19th. Mails close here as under:— For the United Kingdom and foreign countries, etc., on Wednesday, at 10 a.m. Money orders at 9.15 a.m., books and newspapers at 9 a.m. - Late letters, bearing an additional single rate of postage (2Jd) ns. a late fee, can be posted in the mail van attached to. the North train, leaving Dunedin railway station at 11 a.m. on the 18th. The above mail will close at the branch Post Offices, North Dunedin and South Dunedin—for letters at 9.30 a;m., and newspapers at 5 a.m. on the 18th. At the Port Chalmers Office at 8.45 a.m on the 18th. Parcels mail for the United Kingdom, etc., will close at 9.30 a.m. , - VANCOUVER SERVICE, Thursday, August 19. The Warrimoo will leave Wellington for Vancouver on Saturday, August 21. . Mails for Canada, United States of Honolulu, Fiji, West Indies, United Kingdom, Continent of Europe, etc., will close at this office on Thursday, 19th August, atTO a.m. Late letters, mail van, North express; at 11 a.m. Correspondence for the United Kingdom must be specially addressed.

Mails for Cromarty, Puysegur, and Tuanaroa will close at Invercargill on the 19th 1 inst., at 3 p.m. Mails for Noumea close at Sydney on the 20th inst. Mails for South Africa close at Melbourne on ttys2oth. ,; - , (Signed) Edm. Cook, Chief Postmaster. Ch\e! Post Office, August 17,1897.