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Manawatu Herald, 2 January 1897, Page 2

Royal J^iyi Mail j COAOE TO LEVIN, :J. R STANSELL, ... Proprietor. i r PHE ONLY SERVICE that haa j 1 kept up coutinuous intercourse i with the outer world. Distance from Foxtou to Levin Station about . 14 miles, the road goiug through ! the prtttiest scenery in the district. { During the nearly four years' , service over the Wirokino Ferry, the mail has been delivared every day, in spite of floods. As showing THE ADVATAGE OF THIS ROUTE, 6V6n during the week of the late heavy . flood, the mails and 27 passengers • were conveyed by boat and vehicles. ■ The routeby boat was both safe and . an onjoyablo change to thepassepgers i in fact like a picnic, and all who < travelled oxpressod themselves well > pleased with the arrangements made. | On the breakdown of the railway seivico on Easter Monday, occasioned by the heavy flood, this Levin route was the only way open to pas- , sengers from Palmerstori to Foxton. ( Five Foxton residents were driven s iv the Coach from Levin on Tuesday ' morning, 16th April, after having 1 previously endeavoured to get over from Shannon. On Monday, the 15th April, the i usual Coach was run through the ' flood to Levin as well as a vehicle in the afternoon to Kereru, with the Manager of the New Zealand Es« tates Company and the Secretary of the Wellington Freezing Company as passengers, who failed to succeed in crossing at the Shannon Ferry in the morning. Single Fares, 4s ; Return (available I month), 6s. The Coach leaves Whyte's Hotel, Foxton, every week day at 5.30 a.m., for Levin, catching the train to Wellington at 8.0 a.m. The Coach leaves Levin Hotel at 10.15 a.m. on the arrival of the train from Wellington, reaching Foxton at 12.15 p.m. Passengers by this route will reach Wellington by mid-day, and at a cost, of only 17s return. NO TOUTS OR AGENTS % REQUIRED. * W. B. RHODES, General Storekeeper. AGENT FOR— Anchor S.S. Company Standard Insurance Co. (risks taken at lowest rates) N.Z. Mail, N.Z. Times Evening Post Canterbury Press and Referee Sporting Review Auckland Weekly News Booth, Macdonald & Co., And for Anything Else You Want. $500,000 Beatty's Organs at Bargains. For particulars, cata* logue, address Daniel F. Beatty Washington, New Jersey. TN CALLING ATTENTION to X the approaching 'Xmas Trade, I have to thank my Customers for tbe honor they have conferred upon mo in placing me at the head of the Tailoring Trade in Foxton. Amongst the New Patterns will \ib found some of the latest designs, and as all work is guaranteed, a steady business is assured. 1 Customers will do we'l to order | early, before the 'Xmas Trade com* | mences. ! A. R. OSBORNE, I Tailor, Foxton. '