POST OFFICE NOTICES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 12600, 2 March 1903, Page 4

POST OFFICE NOTICES.

1 Mails close at the Chiot -Post Office, Dnntdm, subject to any necessary alterations, as under:— Overland, North, daily, 10,10 a.m. Late letters, 10.45; also on the mail van up to 11 a.m. Books ami newspapers, 10 a.tn. Late-fee letters must bear, in addition to the ordinary postage, id. TUESDAY, MARCH 3. FEDERAL SERVICE, For Australian States (via Hobart), Ceylon, India, China, Straits Settlements, Mauritius, South Africa, Mediterranean Ports, Continent of Europe, United Kingdom, etcper south express, at 8 a.m. Late letters, eolith express, at 9.5 a.m. Due in London Anril 12, Correspondence for the United Kingdom to be specially addressed via Melbourne. ' Money orders close at i p.m., parcels for the Australian States close at 3 p.m., raid registered letters at 5 p.m. on the 2nd. TUESDAY, MARCH ? SAN FRANCISCO Mail service. For Northern Ports of New Zealand, Samoa, Sandwich Islands, Japan, Philippine Islands, United States of America', Canada, South America, West Indies. United Kingdom, and Continent of Ejirope, at 9.50 a.m. Money orders close at 4 p.m. on the 2nd. Bool: packets and newspapers at 0 a.m. on the 3rd. The above mail will close at the branch Post, Offices, North Dunedin, South Dunedin. Caversham. and Eosiyn, for money orders and registered letters at 5 p.m. on the 2nd; letters at 9.30 a.m. on the 3rd; and newspapers at midnight on ilio 2nd. At the Port Chalmers office at 8.45 a.m. on the 3rd; money ordorß at 4 p.m., and registered letters at 5 p.m. ou the 2)1(1, The above mail will be due in London on the 4th April. For Northern Ports, per Waikaie, at 1.30 p.m. Late letters, Port train, 2.30. NOTE. On the Ist March a post office will be onened at Mr Minn's store, St. Leonards. Mails despatched and received twico daily. The nostago on letters for Australia has been reduced to one penny for each half-ounce or fraction thereof. Newspapers for the Australian States (except Queensland, which is id for every 2oz), one penny each. The public are reminded that the postage on newspapers for the United Kingdom, Queensland, and foreign countries is Id -for the first 4oz, and }d for each additional 2oz; and unless newspapers are fully prepaid the department cannot guarantee to forward then! th 6 quickest, routes. —— The Riiiaia will leave Lyttelton £91 London, via Monte Video and Teneriffe, on the 2nd March, at 4 p.m. Duo in London 10th April. Correspondence to be specially addressed. Mails for tlie Chatham Islands, per Toroa, will close at Lyttelton on the 2nd, at 8 p.m. From Melbourne for Albany, Durban, and Capetown, per Damascus, 4th. March. From Sydney for Natal and Capetown, per Yarrawonga, on March 4. Mails for Rarotonga, Tahiti, Tonga, Samoa, and Fiji close at Auckland on the 11th March at 4 p.m. E. Coos, Chief Postmaster.