POST OFFICE, NAPIER.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XX, Issue 3909, 27 April 1877, Page 2

POST OFFICE, NAPIER.

Mails Close at the Chief Post Office as follows :— For Thames and Auckland, per s.s. Star of the South, this day (Friday), at 11 a.m. For Wellington, Southern Provinces, and Australian Colonies, per s.s. Ilangativa, this day (Friday), at 3 ]>.m. For Wellington, Southern Provinces, and Australian Colonies, per s.s. Kiwi, this day (Friday), at 3 i>.ni. For the United Kingdom, Continent of Europe, &c, via Suez and Brindisi, ljy every opportunity to Wellington, where the mails close on the 4th May. For Fiji, Sandwich Islands, America, West Indies, United Kingdom, and Continent of Europe, &c. via San Francisco, per overland to Wellington, at 7 p.m. on Saturday, the sth May, purs.s. Hotoru.i. Money orders and registered letters will close at f> p.m. Newspapers and book packets will close at U ]>.m. on Saturday, the sth May. For the undermentioned places every Monday and Thursday at 5.30 a.m. : — Clive, Hastings, Hav'elock, Te Aute, Kaikora, Waipawa, Waipukurau, Danevirk, Jforsewood, Tahoarite, Woodville, Foxton, Palmeiston, Wanganui, Taranaki, Wellington and Southern Provinces, &c., Wallingford, Poraiigahau, Wainui, and Castle Point. On the other days of the week, mails close as usual at C.30 a.m. J. GRUBB, Chief Postmaster. Chief Post Office, Napier, April 27, 1877.

A young lawyer trembling with fear, rose to make his first speech before Lord Ellenborough, and began — " My lord, my unfortunate client — my lord, my unfortunate client — my lord — " "Go on, sir ; go on," said Lord E., "as far as you have proceeded the Court is entirely with you. " " The sacred heavens around him shine," wrote the poet. The compositor put it : " The scared hyenas around him whine.".