THE MAILS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9241, 19 December 1888, Page 4

THE MAILS.

CHIEF POST OFFICE, AUCKLAND. Mails will close as under : Tins Day. For Putiki and Coromandel, per Enterprise, at 11.80 a.m. , , „ .., . For Katikati, Aongatote, Tauranga, and Opotiki, via Thames, per Rotomahana, at 2 p.m. For Thames, per Itotomahana, at 2.30 p.m. Thursday. For Port Fitzroy, Tryphena, and Okupu, per lona, at 7 a.m. , For Watwera, To Kapa, and Warkworth, per Ross Casev, at 10 a.m. For Oisborne, Napier, and Southern Porte, per Te Anau, at 11 a.m. For New Plymouth and Southern Ports, por Gairloch, at 11 a.m. For Thames, per Itotomahana, at 2.50 p.m. For Thames, per Enterprise, at 5.30 p.m. Fill DAY. For Taranaki and Southern Ports, per Wanaka, at 7.40 a.m. Monday, Deckmdkr 24. For Taranaki and Southern Ports, per Penguin, at 11 a.m. For London, via Rio de Janeiro and Plymouth (per Rimutaka, from Wellington, 27th instant), per Peuguifi, at 11 a.m., for correspondence specially so addressed only. Mail will be due at London on February 7. .Monday, December 31. Per Alameda, as follows : For Samoa, Sandwich Islands, United States of America, Canada, British Columbia, Central and South America, British and Foreign West Indies, at 1 p.m. For United Kingdom and Continent of Europe, at 1 p.m. For money orders, registered iettcrs, and newspapers, at 11.30 a.m. Late letters, bearing an extra feo of 6d in addition to tho postage, may be posted in the late letter box on board the steamer up to the time of sailing. This mail will bo duo at London February 4.

Tuesday, 25th instant (Christmas Day), being a postal holiday, mails that are usually made up on that day will bo closed the previous evening at 7 o'clock. A delivery of loiters will take place at delivery counter from 7 to S p.m., 24th instant. All mails for despatch on '20th instant will close not later than 0 a.m. The office will be closed at 10 a.m. N.B.—The line of mails from Ilelensville to Dargaville will close at this office at 3.30 p.m. 22nd inst., instead of at 0 a.m. 24th instant. The line of mails from Ilelensville to I'nhi, Matakohe, etc., will close at this oilice at 3.30 p.m. 22nd inst., instead of at 3.30 p.m. '24th inst S. B. Biss, Chief Postmaster.