THE MAILS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10629, 18 December 1897, Page 4

THE MAILS.

CHIHF POST OFIfIOK. AUCKLAND, Mails will close an muter; Tims Day. For Wniwera, To Kapa, and Warkwortb, pet Boso Casey, at 8 a.m. For Thames, per Watetere, a 8 a.m. For Coruinandel, per « altanel, at 8.80 a.m. For OlsWne, Napier, ami Southern ports, per To Anan, at 11 a.m. .„„„ For Whakatane, per Cliolmsford, at 11 a.m. For Coots and Kuth's Island, per Ngunguru, at 1 For Tauranga, East Coast Ports, and Gisborne, per Omapero, at i in. For Thame!-, per Mliritai, at 7.30 p.m. For Turua and Paeroa, pet Ohinemuri, at 7.46 p.m. For Coromaiuiel, per Waitangi, at 7.40 p.m. For Tairua, Whakatane, and Opotiki, per Terranora, at 7.45 MONDAY For Tauranga, Te Puke, Pongakawa, Matatt, Ohiwa, opotiki, and Whakitauo, via Rotorua, per train, at 8.30 a.m. For Jlatakana, pur Maori, at 9.30 a.m. For Thames and Katikati, por Wakatere, at 9.46 For New Plymouth and Southern Ports, per Gairloch, at 11 a.m. , For Coroiuanilel, per Itotomabana, at 11.30 a.m. Per Tak'imma, as follows:For New Plymouth and Southern Ports, at s.iep.m. . „ „ , , For East and West Coasts of South America, United Kingdom, and Continent of Europe (connecting with Kaikoura leaving Wellington on December 23), at 3.16 p.m. • For parcels, at 2 46 p.m. Parcels for the United Kingdom can only be for. warded by this route. Correspondence for the United Kingdom will require io In- specially marked per Kaikoura. Mail will be due in Loudon on Fobmary 4, Per Mararoa, as follows:For Ceylon, India, China, Japan, Straits Nettlemenu, Aden, Suez, Mediterranean Porta, 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, books, and newspapers, at 3 p.m. Parcels for New, South Wales and Queensland, at 3.31 p.m. • . „. . . u Correspondence for United Kingdom must be specially addressed via Suez. Mail will lie due in London on February 1. For (lisbome, Napier, and Southern Ports, per Waihora, at 4 p.m. For Russell, Kawakawa, Bawene, Whangaroa, ami Mangomii, per Clansman, at 6,30 p.m. For Kennedy's Bay, Kuaotunu, Wbitlanga, and Oiinitown, per lona, at 6 p.m. For Turua, Paeroa, and Katikati, perNgungura, at 7.30 p.m. For Thames, per Muritai, at 7.46 p.m. For Whangarei Heads, Marsden Point, WsJpu, Paroaßay, Mangapai, Whangarei, Kamo, Kauriholiore, Hikurangl, Ngunguru, and Whakapara, per Wellington, at 7.45 p.m. 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 We« Indios, United Kingdom, and Continent oi Europe, at 8 p.m. For money orders, at 6 p.m., Registered letter", at 6 p.m, and newspapers, at 8 p.m. Parcel mail for Samoa and Hawaiian Islands w 1 close at 6 p.m. Late letters, bearing an extra fee of Md In ad I tion to the postage, may be posted in tho 11 letter box on board the steamer up to the n»of sailing, Mail will be line in London on January 26. Wednesday, Dec. 29. For Fiji, per llauroto.'at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 12, For Tonga, Samoa, and Fiji, per Ovalau, at i p.m, Tuesday, Jan. 18, For Rarotonga and Tahiti, por Upolu, at i p.m.

For Chatham Islands, pet Kahu, close at lyttelton on Friday, 31st, at 8 p.m.

Saturday (Christmas Day), the 26th instant, being a Post Office holiday, the Poit Office will he closed. Mails usually despatched on Saturday will close at 8 p.m. on Friday, the 2ith. The Office will be open from 7 to 8 p.m. on Friday, tin 24tb. for delivery of lettom, including those usually delivered by letter carriers. ■ On .Monday (Boxing Day), the 27th instant, the Post Office will be open from 9 to 10 a.m., In all its branches, and there will be one delivery by letter carriers, commencing at 8 a.m. Sea-borne malls 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 21th instant. The mails for Russell and Northern Ports, usually closing on Monday, will not close until Tuesday, the 28th instant, at 0.30 p.m. 11. Biss, Chief Postmaster. TELEGRAMS BY WAIT,. For Australia, Tasmania, Ceylon, India, China. Japan, and Straits Settlements, also, Continent of Europe and United Kingdom, will close at Bluff per Wakatlpu, on Monday, 20th, at 2 p.m. For United Kingdom and' Continent of Europe via Monte Video and Tenoriffe, per Matanra, will close at Wellington on Saturday, 13th, at 4 p.m. Also, per Kaikourn, on Thursday, 23rd, nt noon. Correspondence for the United Kingdom to be specially addressed. : : • i W. S. Forby, Officerrin-Oharge.