POST OFFICE NOTICES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 12854, 24 December 1903, Page 6

POST OFFICE NOTICES.

Uui'ls close at the Chief Post Office, Dimtdin, 3ubject 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 and newspapers, 9.40 a.m. Late-fee letters must bear, in ail.iition to Ihj. oulitiarv postage, Id. The Rimulaka will leave Wellington for London, via Rio do Janeiro and TeneritTe, on the Mth December at 10 a.m. Correspondence to lie specially addressed. Duo in London 4th February. Mails for Durban ar.d Capetown, per Suivic, from Melbourne, 24th December. Mails for Samoa, Honolulu, America, United Kingdom, and Europe, via San Francisco, close ■ at Auckland on the 25th at 10 a.ll). Mails for Raiotonga, Tahiti, and Pcnrhyr. Islands, per Rotokino, close at Auckland on tho2Btll. , ~ , L . Mails for Fiji will oloso at Auckland on tho stli January, par Rotokino, at -J p.m. Mails for Natal and South Africa, per tho Wnkool, from Melbourne, via Adelaide and Albany, January 15. THIS DAY (THURSDAY), DECEMBER 24. All mils close at 8 p.m. For Australian Slates, per Waipori, at 11 a.m. Late letters noon on board. For Australian Slates, per North Express, to connect with the Warrimoo at 10 a.m. Late letters North Express 11 a.m. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26. From Northern Ports, per To Anau, at 2 p.m. Lale letters 3 p.m. on board. MONDAY, DECEMBER 28. FEDERAL SERVICE. For Australian States (via Hobart and Melbourne), Ceylon, India, China, Straits Settlements, Mauritius, South Africa, Mediterranean Porls, Continent of Europe, United ICir.gdom, etc., per South Express at 8 a.m. Late letters South Express .at 9.5 a.m. Due in London 7th February. Correspondence for the United Kingdom need not be specially addressed via Melbourne. Mails close at the Bluff .on the 28th December at 3.45 p,m, Money orders close at i p.m., parcels for Australian States close at 3 p.m. on the 2.lth, and registered letters at 10 a.m. on the 2Gth, MAIL ARRANGEMENTS FOR CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR HOLIDAYS. Friday, 25th December, and Friday, Ist Jannavy, being postal holidays, all mails usually despatched on those days will close on Tiiursrlny, 24th, and Thursday, 31st, at 8 p.m. A delivery will also be given over the counior each Thursday evening from 7 to 8 o'clock. Sunday hours will be observed for the private box lobby. Ob Saturday (Boxing Day) the office will bo open in all branches except money order and savings bank from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. The usual despatch of mails will be made up to 8 a.m., and ono complete delivery will b'o mado by tho lcttcr-carriors at 8 a.m. Private box lobby open as usual. NOTE. Tho public are again reminded that Christmas caids should be poaled in covers entirely open at ono or both ends, or in open envelopes with the flap turned inside. If the covers are not sufficiently open the articles, if addressed to places within Hew Zealand, are taxed the deficiencv at letter rates of postage and forwarded "to destination; but if addressed to places beyond tho colony they are detained and s»nt to the Dead Letter Office, Wellington. "Letters for the United States of America should be paid 2kl per half ounce. W. St. R. Douulas,