THE MAILS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10626, 15 December 1897, Page 4

THE MAILS.

CHIEF POST OFFICE, AUCKLANP, Mails will close as under: TillS DAY. For Te Puke, Tauranga, and Katikatl, pet train, (it FoMVaiw'era, Te Kapa, and Warkwortb, per Rose Casey, at 10 a.m. ... , „ .. For Oraapere, Rawene, Koliukohu, and Hokianga District, per Glenelg, at 11 a.m. For Gisborne, Napier, And Southern Ports, per "Anglian, at 12 noon. , ~nn „ _ For Turua and Paeroa, per Wsimane, at 2.30 p.m, Vox Tonga, Nine, Samoa, and Fiji, per Tavium, at i For Russell, Kawakawa, and Opua, per Taviuni, at 4 p.m. . . t For Cororaandel, per Muritai, at 5 p.rc. For Thames and raeroa, per Rotoinahana, at p.m. For Coromandel, par Akaroa, at 6.30 p.m. For Whltianpi, Qmntuwii. KuaoMuiii. Wliailgamata, ami Tairua, per Waitingi, at 7.45 run. For Kawau, Mangawai, llakani, Te Arai,|Kaiwaka, and North Albertlaml, per Kawau, at 7,4 a p.m. For Port Fitzroy, Trypbena, Obiipu, and ban ga parapara, per lona, at 7.45 p.m. For Wbangarei Heads, 3larsden_ Point, Wiipn, Parua Bay, Mangapai, Wbangarei, Kamo, KauriUoliore, Hiturangi, and Whakapara, per Wellington, at 7.45 p.m. THURSDAY. For Thames, per Wakatere, at 0.30 a.m. For Tauranga, Te Puke, Pongakawa, Matata, Ohiwa, upotiki, and Whakatane, via Botorua, per train, at 7 a.m. For New Plymouth and Southern Ports, per Maluuapua, at 11 a.m. For Turua, Paeroa, and Katikatl, per Ohinemuri, at 3 p.m. . _ For Whangarei, Kamo, and Dikurangi, per Douglas, at 4 p.m. For Coromandel, per Coromandel, at 6.30 p.m. For Thames, Paeroa, and Katikatl, per Jluritai, at 6.30 p.m. Monday. Per Mararoa, as follows : - . For Ceylon, India, China, Japau, Straits Settlements, Aden, Suez, Mediterranean Ports. Continent of Europe, and United Kingdom, via Suez, at 4 p.m. For Australian Colonies and Noumea, at 4 p.m. For money orders, registered letters, hooks, ami newspapers, at 3 p.m. , , Parcels for New South Wales and Queensland, at 3,85 p.m. . Correspondence for United Kingdom must be specially addressed via Suez. Mail will be dn» in London mi February 1, Friday, Deo. 24. Per Alameda, as follows For Samoa, Hawaiian Islands, United States of America, Canada, British Columbia, Central and South America, British and Foreign West Indies, United Kingdom, and Continent ol Europe, at 8 p.m. For money orders, at 5 p.m., Registered letters, at 6 p.m, and newspapers, at 8 p.m. Parcel mail for Samoa and Hawaiian Islands will close at 5 p.m. Late letters, bearing an extra fee of 2Jd in addition to the postage, may be posted In the late letter box on board the steamer up to the time of sailing. Mail will be doe in Trillion on January 26. Wednesday, Dec. 29. For Fiji, per Hauroto, at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 18. I For Barotonga and Tahiti, per Upolu, at i p.m.

For Puysegnr Point, Cromarty, and Te Onerna, per Itiyercargil], will close at InvercargiU on Thuns(lay, 18th, at i p.m. , For Chatham Islands, per Kaliu, close at Lyttelton on Friday, 31st, at 8 p.m. Saturday (Christmas Day), the 25th instant, being a Post Office holiday, the Post Office will he closed. Mails usually despatched on Saturday will close at 8 p.m. on Friday, the 21th. The Office will lie open Iroui 7 to 3 p.m. on Friday, the 24th, for delivery of letteis, including those usually delivered by letter C "tiers. • On Monday (Boxing Day), the 27th instant, the Post Office will be open from 0 to 10 a.m., in all its branches, and there will he one delivery by letter carriers, commencing at 8 a.m. Sei-horpe mails usually made up on that day after IP a.m. will be dosed at that hour. ' Special attention is drawn to the boors of closing the mails for despatch by the outward San Francisco uiail steamer, on Friday the 24th Instant 1 The malls for Russell and Northern Ports, usually closing on Monday, will not close until Tuesday, the ?3tl) instant, &t 5.30 pan. .. Xtf •*!••». .. B. Biss, Chief Postmaster. • TELEGRAMS BY MAIL.For ' Australia, Tasmania, Ceylon, India, China, Japan, and Straits Settlements, also South Africa, Continent of Europe, and United Kingdom, cjose at Wellington, per \Varriinoo, to day, ' 15b, at p.m." Correspondence for United Kingl i dom to be specially addressed, For Australia. Tasmania, Ceylon, India, China, it Japan, ■ and : Straits Settlements, • also i South Africa, Continent of Europe, and United King, dom, per Waikare, close at \) ehington on Friday, 1711) at i p.pi,' : Correspondence for United King- ¥• dom'must r be specially addressed. :■ Due inLondo(i February J, 1898. CEBV| officer-In-Cliarge. . * ' V. S.FOBBV, Officor-in-Charge,