POST OFFICE NOTICES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11798, 30 July 1900, Page 4

POST OFFICE NOTICES.

Mails close at the Chief Pos6 Office, Dunedin, subject to any necessary alterations, aB under: — Overland, North, daily, 50.20 a.m. Late letters, 10.45,; also on the niail van up to 11 a.m. Bowles and newspapers, 10 a.m. Late-fee letters must bear, in addition to the ordinary postage—ld for inland letters, 2d for letters for Australia and the South Sea Islands.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 3. SAN FRANCISCO MAIL SERVICE.

_For Northern ports of New Zealand, Samoa, Sandwich Islands, United States of America, Canadfi, Japan, Philippine Islands, South America, West Indies, United Kingdom, and Continent of Europe, at 10 a.m.' Money orders at 4 p.m. on the 2nd. Registered letters .at 5 p.m. on the 2nd. Book packets and newspapers at 9 a.m. 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 2nd; letters at 9.30 a.m., and newspapers at 5 a.m. on the 3rd. At the Port Chalmers office at 8.45 a.m. on the 3rd; money orders at 4 p.m.; registered letters at 5 pirn, on the 2nd. Due in London on September 5.

Mails for Natal and Capetown, from Melbourne, per Woolloomooloo, on tho 30th Mails for Rarotonga and Tahiti close at Auckland on Tuesday, 31st, at 4 p.m. ' Mails for Tonga, Samoa, and Fiji close at Aiickland on Tuesday, 31st, at 4 p.m. Mails for Chatham Islands close at Lyttelton on Wednesday, the Ist of August, at 8 p.m. Mails for Capetown, from Melbourne, per Sala-mis, on the Bth.of August.

NOTICE. On and after Ist July, a Parcel Post Service will be established between New Zealand and the United States of America. To prevent the presence of rats in the post ifnr.e, the regulation regarding wedding cake -o be enclosed in tin boxes will be rigidly en.orced in future.

Jo ensure, prompt delivery, letters, etc., for dredging companies should have tho name of the secretary in the address.

As offices despatching mails for South Africa will m future mako up a special mail lor each of the New Zealand Contingents, the public are. advised to address letters clearly to i°' r'n. 3> 4> °r 5 Continsent as the case may lie. Kio postage upon soldiers' letters under half an ounce is Id.

Edmd. Cookb, Chief Postmaster.

The doctor may scoff, and likewise may sneer, When to his advice you lend him no car, But tell him bis fee is a little too dear For the good, that he does when you feel a bit

queer. He from you the secret may try to allure Tho cure for all coughs so cheap,and so sure, Suspense you'll not let him then too long endure, But explain that it's Woods' Great Peppermint Cure.