MAIL NOTICE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXII, Issue 6849, 26 March 1897, Page 4

MAIL NOTICE.

Mails closß at the chief Post Office, Oamaru (subject to any necessary alterations) as under: — For Northern ports, overland daily, at •2.30 p.m. Lato letters mail van north express, at 3 p.m.

Saturday, 27th March.

For Wellington, per Penguin, at 2.30 p.in Monday, 29th Mabcii.

For Australian Colonies, United Kingdom, and Europe, also India, China, Hong Kong, and Japan, per Talune, (via BluS and Hobart), at 6 30 a.m. Correspondence for the United Kingdom need not be specially addressed. This mail is due at London on May 11th.;; The Tallins will connect with the Aberde?n Liner Thermopylae, leaving Melbourne about April sth, and conveying mails for Africa, and due Capetown about April 2Sth

Mails for Chatham Islands close at Christchurch on jSpril Ist. Mails for Norfolk Island and the New Hebrides leave Sydney on April 7th The rate of postage on papers to Queensland is now Id for the firs'i 4ozs and £d for each additional 2ozs. 'ihe nexD mail for South Africa will leave Melbourne about April sth. Due at Capetown about April 28ih.

The next direct steamer will be the Gothic, which leaves Wellington on Ist April, and is due in London on May 12. Mai's for r aratongi and Tahiti per Upolo, close at Auckland on 14th April, at 4 p.m.

Fk Duncdin, Fork Ciiiuaiars, i and inr.crmc'iir.te o.Tkxv, daily at 6.3 i a.rn and 4.4.3 p.m. For Chrbtchursh, daily at 2.30 and 4 p.»». For Wellington and northern p .as spu'jial'y no'For T maiv;, <*; d Watfc&k ; daily au 6.30 '.ni. and 9.50 and 4 p.m. Fcr Pukeuti, I'r.nakaie, Awamoko, Georgetown, Duni.rv.-n, Ui-a&e, Ki;row, and "dak!. adaily a! "•.40 p.m. For Livingstone and iiatuawhekiia, Mondays, Wednesdays. ai)d Fridays, at 3.40 For vv'iua- oka. daily at 4 p.m. For Vv Kjua Windsor, d dly u 6.30 a.m. and 4 p.rr;. For Ngapara, on Mondayp, T:.n days, Tiuirsidays and Saturdays, at 6.30 t-.m. and