POST OFFICE NOTICES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10998, 30 December 1897, Page 2

POST OFFICE NOTICES.

Mails clese at tie Chief Post Office, Dunedin fsufeject te any necessary alterationi), Ss under: ' ©verla'i.-, *-.._.. daily. 10.30 a.m. Books and newspapers, 10 a.m. Late letters, mail van,-11 a.n»

This __t (Thursday), December3o. For Y>_lli_gton direct, per Gothic, at2.-Up.m, Thursday, January 6-

:'■ .VANCOUVER SERVICE. _.. -^er "Nertherm Ports of New Zealand, .___!, Sa-dwieh Islands, United of America Ca»a_!a. S.uth America, West Indies. United Kin--B_i.'a_d Continent of Europe, at 10 a.m. ... Book packets and newspapers at 9 a.m., btn. iloaey erders at 4 p.m., registered corres»endenceatsp._>.on Wednesday, sth. Late letters, bearing an additional single rate -f sestage (2__.) as a late fee, can be posted in the W_\ van attached to tae North tram, leaving railway station at 11 a.m. on the otb- . The above mail will close at the branch .fost 9aces,N<.rt_i Dunedin and South DttnedlH-for Mtaey erders and. registered letters ato p.m. on tie sth; letters at 9.30 a.m., and newspapers at 5 aw ea the 6th. At the Port Chalmere office at S -So a.m. en the 6tb , money orders at 4 pj_.„ and resistered letters at 5 p.m. on the sth.

A mail ior the Chatham Islands, per Kahn, will close at Lyttelton ob the 31st. at 8 V-m. Mans: for, Noumea and Fiji leave Sydney on the sth January. _ , ~, The Aberdeen liner Nineveh will leave Melbourne for South Africa on the 6th January.; Mails for Norfolk Island will close at Auckland un the 6th January, at 11 a.m. _ Mails for Tons*. Samoa, and Fiji, per Ovalau. will close- at Auckland oa the 12th January at 4 p.m.

Saturday, January Ist, being a Post Office holiday, all mails usually despatched on that date will close at 8 p.m. on Friday, -Ist. A delivery ef letters, 4c, "will be made over the counter by letter carriers, _~ from 9to 10 p.m. on Friday, Slst. •""-.".-...■'■' ' o

CHRISTMAS CARDS.

The public are reminded that all cards enclosed in envelopes not entirely open at one end or laving the flap.of envelope turned in are liable to Ye charged letter rates on delivery.

"(Sig_cß) Kbw. Cook, Chief Tostmaster. Shief Peit Office, December 29,1897.

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