NOTICE OF MAILS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 251, 25 October 1867, Page 2

NOTICE OF MAILS.

For Blenheim, per Lyttelton, to-day, at 5 p.m. For New Plymouth and Auckland, per Phoebe, this evening, at 5. For Grey mouth, .Hokitika, and Australian Colonies, per Rangiioto, this evening, at 5. For Havelock, Picton, and Blenheim—close on the 13thand 28th of every month, at o p.m.; arrive on the 2nd and 17th. For Stoke, Richmond, Hope, Spring Grove, Wake- ' field, and Foxhill—Close at Chief Post Office daily at 2.30, p.m.; arrive at Chief Post Office daily, at 11 o'clock, a.m. •For Tadmor —Close every alternate Saturday, at 2.30, p.m.; arrive every alternate Saturday, at 11 a.m. .- For Waimea-west, Appleby, Upper and Lower Moutere, Motueka, and Riwaka —Close every Monday and Thursday, at 8.30, a.m.; arrive every Tuesday and Friday, at 4 p.m. . For Wakapuaka —Close every Wednesday and Saturday, at 2.30, p.m.; arrive every Wcdnes day and Saturday, at 11 a.m. For Collingwood, Motupipi. and Takaka —By every opportunity, per steamer or sailing boat. SYDNEY J. DICK, Chief Postmaster.

The little Princess Beatrice has always been noted for her thoroughly Euglish proclivites, and not a few sparkling 'mots'ofhers have been whispered about from time to time. Not long ago she is reported to have expressed a decided antipathy to the recurrence of German alliances, and proposed a healthy change in the way of a Japanese match! But a still better story of her is now going ahout. The other day our Princess Royal of Prussia -wrote to her little sister, and asked what she would like for a birthday present. The answer was pithy aud to the point : —' Send me Bismarck's head ■on a charger !' —Echoes from the Clubs. The effect of advertising is thus related iv the Vicksburg Times: —'A lady advertised in the Times some time ago for a stray cow, and the cow came home next day, pulled down the cow-pen fence, bellowed till the milkmaid came, and then kept off her own calf till she was milked.' A Frenchman soliciting relief of a lady, said gravely to his fair hearer, 'Madame, I nevaire beg. but dat I have von vife vid several small family dat is growing very large and nossinir to make dere bread out of, but de perspiration of my own eyebrow.' Wanted —An umbrella for the reign of peace ; a comb from the horns of a dilemma ; a collar for the cat-o'-nine tails ; a door for the press of business ; a spoke from the wheel of fortune ; a flower from the Bank of England; a plant from the overland route; a bucket for the well of truth ; a coffin for the body of a church ; a lace for the boot of a stage-coach ; an ewer for the basin of a canal; diamonds .. for a wreath of smoke ; snores fiom a railway sleeper ; whisky from the still of •&s evening ; fragments from the break ■of day ; and a *laugh from the smiling 'morii. ... . .