POST OFFICE NOTICES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 12602, 4 March 1903, Page 4

POST OFFICE NOTICES.

■ » ' Hails close at the Chief Post Office, Dnn- ' ediu, subject to any. necessary alterations, as 1 under:— <. , Overland, North, daily, 10.10 a.m. Lnto 1 letters. 10.45; also on the mail van up to 11 a.m. Books and newspapers, 9.40 ft.ni. ' Late-fee letters must bear, * 11 addition *° the ■ ordinary postage, Id, THIS DAY (WEDNESDAY), MARCH 4. For Northern Ports, per Moltoia, at 1.30 p.m. Irate letters, Port train, 2.30 p.m. THURSDAY, MARCH 5. . FEDERAL SERVICE. For Australian States (via Sydney), Ceylon, India, China, Straits Settlements, ■ Mauritius, . South Africa, Mediterranean Ports. Continent 1 .of Europe, United Kingdom, etc., per north express (io connect with the llokoic. at .Wellington), at i 1.50 a.lll. Due in London 12tli April. Close n.t "Wellington on the Gth, at- 2 p.m. | Corresnondencs need not •ba specially addressed. Money orders closo at i p.m. and registered letters at 5 p.m. on tho 4th. NOTE'. On tho Ist March a nost office will be onened at Mr Mian's store, St. Leonards. Mails de- •. spatched and received twice daily, • Tho noslage 011 letters for Australia has been • reduced to one penny for each half-ounce or fraction- thereof. Newspapers for flio Aus- . tralian States (except Queensland, which is Jd for every 2oz), one penny each. The public are reminded that the postage 011 newspapers for the United Kingdom, Queensland, and foreign countries is Id for the first 4oz, and id for cacli additional 2oz; and unless newspapers are fully prepaid the department j cannot guarantee to forward them by the I quickest routes. I — From Melbourne for Albany, Durban, and ( Capetown, per Damascus, 4th March.. ! From Sydney for Natal and Capetown, per : Ynrrawonga, ou March •!. ' Mails for Tahiti, Tonga, Samoa, and Fiji close at Auckland on the 11th March I at i p.m. , I E. Cook, Chief Fonttnnster.