POST OFFICE NOTICES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10597, 18 February 1896, Page 5

POST OFFICE NOTICES.

Mallj Qlosa at the Chief Post Office, Dunlin abject to any necessary alterations), ac under i— For Northern Fortß, overland, daily, at 10.SO a.m., C.P.O. Latu letters, mail van, North trair, atlia.m; ' ■ • ■ This "Day (Tuesday), Februaiiy 18. For Northern Ports of New Zealand, pev Anglian, at 11.30 a.m. Late letters, guard's van, Port train, stt 12.10 p.m. For Northern Ports of New Zealand, per north express, »t 10.30 a.m. (to connect with tbe Flora at. Lyttelton). Late letters, mail van,' north express, at 11 a.m. For Southland and Australian colonies at 6 a.m. (overland to' Bluff, to connect, with the Chilka). Money orders at 3.30 p.m. Money orders, registered letters, and newspapers at 2 30 p.m. ■':: , DIRECT MAIL SERVICE. The direct steamer Tohgariro will leave Wellington for Plymouth, via Rio de Janeiro, on •Thursday, 20th February. Mails close here as *-iinder:— . . v - ■ ■ ' For United Kingdom and foreign countries, ic. on Tu»day, ISth, at 10.30 a.m. . j Parcels :for ths United Kingdom, Ac., per; Xongariro, will close at 9.30 a.m. Correspondence per this mail must be specially addressed. : ■ ' 'Sue in London on April 13. .■■'. Wednesday, February 19.' For Lyttelton, Christohurchi Northern Ports of New Zealand, and Australian colonies (except Tasmania;, per Jlararoa, at 4.30 p.m. Late letters, guard's van, Port train, at 5.15 p.m. SAN FRANCISCO MAIL SERVICE. For Northern Ports of New Zealand, Samoa, Sandwich Islands, United State* of America, Canada, South America, West Indies, United Kingdom, and Continent of Europe, at 10 a.m. Money orders at 9.15 a.m. on Wednesday, 19th. Registered correspondence at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, 18th. : '■■...'- Book packets < and newspapers at 9 a.m, on Wednesday, 19th. . Late letters, bearing an additional single rate of postage (!!Jd) as a late fee, can be posted in the mail van, attached to the north express leaving Dunedin railway station, at 11 a.m. on the 19tH The above mail will close at the branch post offices, North Dunedin and South Dunedin—for . money orders and. registered letters at 5 p.m. on the 18th, letters at 9.30 a.m., and newspapers at 5 a.m. on the 19th. At the Port Chalmers office at , 8.45 a.m. on the 19th; money orders at i p.m. and registered letters at 5 p.m. on the 18th. The above mail will be due in London on "the 25thMarch.-. •■ , . •. ■ ' Thursday, February 20. J'or Lyttelton, Christahnrch, and Northern Ports of New Zesland, per Talune, at 4.20 p.m. Late letters, C.P.0., at 4.30 p.m.

Maile for Tahiti and Rarotonga, per Richmond, will close- at Auckland on Wednesday, 19th inst., atiS p.m. r • Mails for Puysogur Point and Cromarty close at Invercareill on Thursday, 20th inst., at 2.30 p.m. Mail« for Fiji,- per Upolu, close at Auckland on Ihursday, 27th, at 4 p.m. Mails for Tonga, Samoa, and 'Fiji will close at Auckland on the 11th March.

■'.-.. ■ (Signed) - Kdm: Cook, Chief Postmaster. Chief Post Office, February 15,1896. ~A-

Where there's a will there's a way; smoke away at Indian Chief Cigarettes.

Japan and the Japanese have never so completely monopolised tha attention of the world as at the present time. The stories told of them—thepeopleandthe country—have hitherto beon of tho "pretty-pretty" type, and they have been indulgently considered as interesting though pitiful burlesques of Western civilisation; .'But,1 as the French proverb «aya, "We have changiid all that," and the determined character ol the Japanese has been foroibly illustrated in the. course of' the memorable struggle between tho great races of the Orient. So near and yet so different, and with all their difference, how absurdly alike. Japan has been aptly.,named th:> "land of oppoßites," and truly, iE we except the " mimicry of the Occident," one could hardly have gone astray (a few years back) in reversing in Japan the beet established codes of etiquette of England or France. Pierre Lotie, the French novelist, has given in his little book " Madame Crysanthfime," an insight into Japanese customs. This story of life ashore' during the visit of the French fleet is instructive as,well as interesting, especially in the light oi* later events, the Japanese war not being thought of at the time even of publication. Unfortunately the "opium habit" haa to & certain extent established itself in thia beautiful country. It is not so prevalent as in China, and it 'is more than likely that it will give place to a,ranch more healthful and enjoyable', pastime. Vanity Fair Cigarettes are establishing themselves firmly here, as indeed the world over, and. already promise to expel their predecessor. -