THE MAILS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10320, 21 December 1896, Page 4

THE MAILS.

CHIEF POST OFFICE, AUCKLAND. Mails will close is under: this Day. Per Takapuna, as follows :— Fjr New Plymouth and Southern Porto, at 7.55 a.m. For East and West Coasts of South America, United Kingdom, and Continent of Europe (connectinc with Rimutaka leaving Wellington on December 24), at 7.55 a.m. Correspondence for the United Kingdom will require to he specially marked per Ruapehu. Mail will he .liid in Loudon on February 5. For Kawau, Mangawai, Hakatu, Kaiwaka, and Te Ami, per Kawau, at 10 a.m. For Wain-era, Te Kapa, and Warkwortb, per Rose Casey, at 10 a.m. For New Plymouth and Southern Ports, per (iairloch, at 11 a.m. For Wellington and Southern Ports, per Upolu, at 11 a.m. For Turua and Paeroa, per Waimarie, at 11.30 a.m. Tor Matiikaita, ner Mauri, at 1 p.m. For Coroinandel, tier Coroinandel, at 1.30 p.m. For Coromanilel, per Akaroa, at 2 p.m. for Thames and Katlkati, per Wakatere, at 3 p.m. For (lishurne, Napier, and Southern Ports, poi Rotomahana, at 3 p.m, For T&urangii and Opotiki, per Waijtahi,at 3 p.m. (■'or Russell, Kanrakawa, Rawem, VliaiiKiifu*, ami Mangonui, per Clansman, at 5.3" p.m. For Coromanilel, per Wakatere, . 17.45 p.m. For Tlames, Paeroa, and Katltati per Rotomahana, at 7.45 p.m. For Whangarei |Heads, Mawlen Point, Ruakaka, Walpu, i'arua (fay, Mauaapai, Whangarei, Kauio, Kauriholwre, and Hikurangi, per Wellington, at 7.45 p.m. (TorWiiitiaiigH.Gumtown, Kuaotunu, and Keunedy's Bay, pei lona, at 7.45 p.m. TUESDAY. For Cowcs and Putiki Bay, per Argyle, at 8 a.m. For Turua and Paeroa,'per Ngunguru, at 11 a.m. For Coroinandel and Kuaotunu, pet Coroinandel, at 3."0 p.m. For Thames, per Wakatere, at 3.30 p.m. For Timaru and Oamaru, per Pukaki, at 4 pan, Per Waihora, as follows :- For Ceylon, India, China, Japan, Straits Settlements, Aden, Suez, Mediterranean Ports, Continent of Europe, and United Kingdom, via Suez, at 4 p.m. For Capetown and South Afric.in States (per Aberdeen line), at 4 p.m. For Australian Colonies and Noumea, at 4 p.m. For money orders, registered letters, hooks, and newspapers, at 3 p.m. Parcels for New South Wales and Queensland, at 3.30 p.m. Correspondence tor United Kingdom must be specially addressed via Suez. Mail will be due in London on February 2, For Thames, per Terranora, at 7.45 p.m. For Turua and Paeroa, per Paeroa, at 7.45 p.m. For Thames, por Ohinemuri, at 7.45 p.m. Saturday, December % Per Monowai, as follows ;— For Samoa, Hawaiian Islands, United States of America, Canada, British Columbia, O-ntral and South America, British aud Foreign West Indies, United Kingdom, and Continent of Europe, at 1U a.m. For books and newspapers at 0 a.m. Parcel mail for Samoa and Hawaiian Islands will close at 0,30 a, in. For money orders and registered letters at 5 p.m. on Thursday. December 24. Late letters, bearing an extra fee of 2jd in addition to the postage, may bo posted in the late letter box on board the steamer tip to the time of sailing. Mail will bo due in London on January 27. Tuesday, Jan. 5. For Fiji, per PukaK*, at 4' p.m. Wednesday. Jan. 13. Foi Tonga, Samoa, and Fiji, per Tavluni, at i p.m, Wednesday, January 20. For Itarotonga and Tahiti, pec Taupo, at i p.m. For Chatham Islands, per Kahu, close at Lyttelton on January 2, at noon, Friday (Chriitmas Day), the 25th Instant, being a Post Office holiday, the Post Office will be closed. Mails usually despatched on Fridays will close at 7 p.m. on Thursdiy, the 24th. The office will bo open from 7 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, the 24th, for delivery of letters, including those usually delivered by letter-carrier. • On Saturday, 26th instant (Boxing Day), the office will be open from 9 to 10a.m. in all its branches, and there will be One delivery by letter-carrier, commencing at 8 a.m. Sea-borne mails usually made Up on that day after 10 a.m. will be closed at that hour. Special attention Is drawn to the hours of closing the malls fur do spatcta by the outward 'Frisco mail steamer on Saturday, the 26th instant. S, U. Diss, Chief Postmastor. TELEGRAMS lIY MAIL For United Kingdom and Continent of Europe, via Monte Video (due in London February 5), for specially marked correspondence only, per Rimutaka, close at Wellington on Thursday, 24th, at 10 a.m. For Australian Colonial (due in Sydney 31st Dec,), Tasmania, Ceylon, India, China, Japan, Straits Settlements, Msuritiui, and South Africa, also Continent of Europe and United Kingdom, via Naples (due In London 10th February) close at Wellington en Saturday, i:«ih inst., per Tarawera, at 9 a.m. W. S. FuiißY, Officer in Charge,