MAIL NOTICES.
For Northern Porta of New Zealand, per Eotorna, on Saturday, 21th May, at 4.30 p.m. For United Kingdom, East and West Coast of South America, per lonic on Tuesday, May 28th, as follows : Books, newspapers, and registered letters and money orders at 3.30 p.m.; ordinary letters at p.m.; late fee letters (6d extra) at Chief Post Office till 4.45 p.m., and at railway mail van North Express, till 5.5 p.m. , The parcel post mail for United Kingdom by the above boat will close at 4 p.m. on the same day. On and after Monday, 13th inst,, mails by trains will close at Timaru, as follows : —For South (per express) daily at 2.30 p.m., and by other trains as at present. For North (by express) daily at 4.45 p.m. ; for Christchurch and intermediate offices, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. at 6 a.m-, and on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, at 11.30 a.m. ; for local pfficos, as far as Ashburton, daily, at G a.m. NOTICE. Friday, the 24th (Queen’s Birthday), the Post-office will be closed. Mails usually despatched on Friday will be made up they previous night (Thursday) at 8 p.m , at which time a delivery will be made over the counter, from 8 to 9 p.m. The Telegraph Office will be open from 9 to 10 a.m. and 7 to 8 p.m. only. The Telephone Exchange will be open as usual. (Signed) Ed. Cook, Chief Postmaster. Chief Post Office, Timaru, May 23rd, 1889.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 5014, 23 May 1889, Page 2
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242MAIL NOTICES. South Canterbury Times, Issue 5014, 23 May 1889, Page 2
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