POST OFFICE NOTICES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11302, 21 December 1898, Page 2

POST OFFICE NOTICES.

• •Mails close at th. Chief Post Offies, DunOba) aubjecfto.any necessary alterations, U| ™<w7nd, North, daily, WM a.m. .Late Mr ters; 10.46-, also an the mail van up to 11 ».m Jj-aka and auwapj-pon, 10 a.m. .. Late-fe. Utters must bear, m add tion to tha oidinar? postage—ld for inland letter., 2d lor .SteSta -A-wtoli. and the South Sea Wanda, '•wid 2id for all other places. ' CHRISTMAS CARDS. The public are reminded that all cards enclosed "in envelopes not entirely open at one end, or having the flap of the envelope turned in, are liable to be charged letter rates on dell^l7' WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21. For Lyttelton and Christchu-ch, per Taiave_»,'aW.3o„p.m. /.Lato letters, Port tram, at *yfiß" FRANCISCO MAIL SERVICE. For northern ports 'of l«w Zealand, Samoa, sAd-vioh Islands, Dnited States of America, Canada, South America,. West Indies United Jungdom, and Continent of Europe, at 10 a.m. 7_Lo__i_ order, at 4 p.m. on the 20th; bool--pickets and newspapers, 9 a.m., 21st. - Registered conespondence al 6 p.m. on luei ' mail will clos. at the branch Post OEc*-, .North Dunedin and South Dunedin, lor •^onay orders and registered letter, at 5 p.m. in'the 20th; letters at 9.80 a.m. and «»]?«» at S a.m.' on the 21st." At the Port Chalmers office at'B.4s a.m. on the 21st, money' ordere at i p.m., registered letters at 6 p.m. on the 20^ .The above mail will be due in London on «th *[»~ SDAY _ DE c E MBER 22. . For Northern Ports, at 10.20 a.m. . Australian Colonies, at 10 a.m., to connect ■With the Tarawera at 'Wellington. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23. ■' • For Lyttelton and Christchurch, per le : 'Anau, at 2 p.m.

Commencing 25th November, a mad is despatched from London, via Naples, containing Sl conespondence for New Zealand, whetner specially addressed or not, posted during the 3£ after the departure of the San Francisco mail1 from London; Fust mail under this arrangement due in New Zealand early in Janu- - "The direct steamer Ruahine will leave Wellington for Plymouth, via Monte Video, on Thursday, December 22. . • S.ftom Sydney for Noumea and Fiji on 1 'lor South Africa will close at Md, * -bourne, per .Yarrawonga. on the 30th. -' -Mails for the Chatham Islands per Kahu, will close- at Lyttelton . p.m. on the 31st. ■ "Mail for Fiji, per Upolu, will close at Auck- ' Und on the 4th January at 4 p.m. , ' ...-Mails tor Tonga, Samoa, and Fiji, per ■Tavinui, will close at Auckland on llth Janu-•Ml-a'ilß foyßarotonga and Tahiti will close at Auckland on the 17th January at 1.4 p.m. Mails, for South Africa, per Aberdeen liner will leave Melbourne on the 25th January. (Signed) Emr. Coox, Chief Postmaster..