POST OFFICE NOTICES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11598, 5 December 1899, Page 4

POST OFFICE NOTICES.

Mails cloße,at. the Chief Post Office, Dunedin, subject to any necea3ary alterations aa under:— ■ •'■," . . ,Ovorla»a,:North,, daily, 10.20 a.m. Late let- ' .ters> ?_?•.*?> also on the mail van up to 11 a.m. Bonks arid newspapers, 10 a.m. 'jate-fee.letters must bear, in'addition to tha oidinary pps-agi—ld for inland letters, 2d for letters for Australia and the South Sea Islands, '. '..;'•■ TUESDAY,. DECEMBER 5. . ■;.•::; DIRECT. MAIL SERVICE. The Gothic will ;leave Wellington foT London (via Rio do Janeiro and Teneriffe) on Thursday, 7th, at'lo'a.m.. . . ■ ' , Correspondence, specially addressed, 'will close at this office on Tuesday, sth, at 10.20 ,a.m. Parcels for the United Kingdom, etc.,' will .close at. 9.30 a.m. ■"'•.■ ' THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7. For Northern Ports of New Zealand and Australian C°'°nies (except Tasmania), per Talune at 1.90 p.m., '■■'.;■ Money, orders, registered letters, books, and newspapers; at 12.30. Late letters Port train, 2.30 p.m. '" ' FRIDAY, DECEMBER ,8. . For Lyttelton and Christchurch, per Tara.wera, at 3 p.m. 11 ' ' . ■ Mails .for.'" Norfolk Island will close at .Auckland on the sth December at 8 a.m. Mails for Australia; Ceylon, India-, China, Straits' Settlements/ -Europe, United Kingdom, '.etc., per Waikare, will close at the Bluff on the ;sth at. 2 p.m. Mails ' for Fiji, per Taviuni, will close at Auckland oh the sth December, at 11 a.m. Mails for Australia, Ceylon, India, China, Europe, United Kingdom, etc.,'per Mararoa, will close at Auokland on the 4th at 4.30 p.m. ■ also Noumea. .- Mails for South Africa, via Capetown, per Spithead, will'close at Lyttelton on the sth at A '.p.m. Due about 9th January. Mails for Tonga, Samoa, and Fiji, per Hauroto, will close at Auckland on the 13th December at 4 p.m. TJie Nineveh will- leave Melbourne for Capetown on the 20th December. NOTICE.-In future, Book Post Rates to -lasmama will be the same as to Queensland— viz., Id for 4oz -or ■ fraction thereof. - : . "SOLDIERS' LETTERS. Letters under 'half an ounce addressed to non-comnnssioned officers and men of tho New Zealand Contingent need only be prepaid one penny each, in accordance with the regulations re soldiers' letters.' Letters for the Contingent addressed, via-Wellington ,or Bluff, as °the ease, may be, will be .made un there m. special bags, addressed to the. officer commanding- the New Zealand Contingent, and arrangements will be made for sending on the lugs to. wherever the Contingent may be stationed from the first port of call of mail steamers. ■ .

_______L e_! " EdU" COOK> Cl"ef Postmaster.