THE MAILS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10627, 16 December 1897, Page 4

THE MAILS.

CHIBB* POST OFFICE, AUCKLAND,, Mails ulll close in under: This Day. For Thames, pet Wakatere, at 0.30 a.m. For ftiuranga, Te Puke, Pongakawa, Matata, Ohlwa, Opotiki, and Whakataue, via Rotorua, per train, at 7 a.m. Per Mahinapua, as follows:- „ , . For New Plymouth anil Southern Ports, at For United Kingdom and Continent of Europe, via Monte Video (fur specially juldrfnsea correspondent), pev Mataura, leaving \\ elliugton on 18th lust., at 11 a.m. ' Mall duo in London on February 14. For nisboroe, Napier, and Southern Potts, per Anglian, at noon. , , . For Tunis, Paeroa, and Katikati, per Ohlnemurl, at For'whangarei, Kamo, and Hikurangl, per Douglas, at 4 p.m. For Corouiandel, per Coromandol, at 6.80 p.m. For Thames, Paeroa, and ICatikati, per Murital, at 6.30 p.m. Friday, For Coromandel, per Ngunguru, at C.30 a.m. For Thames, per Wakatere, at 7.15 a.m. For Cower., lluth's Island, and Putiki Bay, per Coromandel, at 8 a.m. ... . For Waitara and Southern Ports, per Kanlen, at 11 a.'". , . For Tauranga, East Coast Ports, and Glsborne, per Omapere, at 4 p.m. ... For Turua and Paeroa, per Woimarie, nt i p.m. For Coromandel. per Akaroa, at 6.30 p.m. For Tauranga, Katikati, and Opotiki, per Clansman, at 0 p.m. , , For Coromandel, per Coromandel, at 0.30 p.m. For Thames, per Rotomnhana, nt 0.45 p.m. , . For Okupu, Kennedy's Bay, Kuaotunu, whltlanga, and Qumtown, per lona, at 7.45 p.m. For Whangarei Beads, Marsden Point, Waipu. I'arua Bay, Mangapal,Whangarei, Kaino, Kauri-, holiorc, Hikurangl, Ngunguru, Hukerenui. lowai, Pnhlpulii, Whakapara, and Kawakawa, per Wellington, at 7,15 p.ni. ' Monday. Per Mararoa, as follows:For Ceylon, India, China, Japan, Straits SeMJemenu, Aden, Suez, Mediterranean Porta, Continent of Europe, and United Kingdom, via Suez, at 4 p.m. . . >• i For Australian Colonies and Noumea, at 4 p.m. or money orders, registered letters, books, and newspapers, at 3 p.m. ■ , , Parcels for New South Wales and Queensland, nt 3.3'J p.m. , Correspondence for United Kingdom must be specially addressed via Suez. Mail will he dim in London on February 1, • Friday, dec. 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 01 Europe, at 8 p.m. _ ~ .... For money orders, at 6 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. . , , j,, I,ate letters, bearing an extri feo of 24a In addition to the postage, may be posted in toe late letter box on board the steamer up to the time of sailing. „ „„ Mail will be dun in London on January 20, Wednesday, Dec. 29, For Fiji, per Hauroto, at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 18. For Earotonga and Tahiti, per Upolu, at 4 p.m. For Puysegur Point, Cromarty, and Te Oneroa, pet Invercargill, will close at Invercargill to-day, 16th, at 4 p.m. , ...... For Chatham Islands, pet Kaliu, close at lyttelton to-morrow, 31st, at 8 p.m. Saturday (Christmas Day), the 26th Instant, being a Post Office holiday, the Post Office will be closed. Mails usually despatched on Saturday will close at 8 p.m. on Friday, the 2itli. The Office will be open Irom 7 to 8 p.m. on Friday, tho 24th, for delivery of letters, including those usually delivered by letter C On Monday (Boxing Day), the 27th instant, the Post Office will be open from 0 to 10 a.m., In all its branohes, and there will be one delivery by letter carriers, 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 mails for despatch by the outward San Francisco mail steamer, on Friday the 24tn instant. The mails for Russell and Northern Ports, usually closing on Monday, will not closo until Tuesday, the 28th instant, at 6.30 p.m. B. Biss. Chief Postmaster. TELEGRAMS BY MAIL. For Tonga, Samoa, and Fiji, close at Russell per Taviuni, to-day, 10th, at 1 p.m. . For Australia, Tasmania, Ceylon, India, China, Japan, and Straits Settlements, also South Africa, Continent of Europe, and United Kingdom, per Waikare, close at Wellington to-morrow, 17th, at 2 p.m. Correspondence for United Kingdom must be specially addressed, , Due in London February 1, 1898. , , ' For United Kingdom and Continent of Europe via Monte Video and Teneriffe, per Matanra, will close at Wellington on Saturday, 18th. at 4 p.m. Also, per Kaikoura, on Thursday, 23rd, at noon. . Correspondence for the United Kingdom to be specially addressed. • • • . ■-.v. For Australia, Tasmania, Ceylon, India, China,: Japan, arid Straits Settlements, also Continent of Europe and United Kingdom, will close at, Bluff per Wakatipu, on Monday, 20th, at 2 p.m,| W. S. OtHcor-in-Charge,