MAIL NOTICES.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 8658, 22 October 1896, Page 2

MAIL NOTICES.

Subject to any necessary alterations mails will close as under : Satubday, 24th Octobbb. For Northern Ports of New Zealand, per Penguin, at 4.30 p.m. Wednesday, 28th Octobbb. For the Australian Colonies (via Blufl), per Hauroto, at 4 p.m. For the United Kingdom, Continent of Europe, United States of America, Canada, West Indies, etc. (via San Francisco), Hawaiian Islands, Samoa, and Northern Ports of New Zealand, per Takapuna, as follows:—Ordinary letters 4 p.m., registered letters, money orders, book packets and newspapers at 3.30 p.m., late fee letters at C.P.O. till 4.45 p.m., and at mail van, north express, till 5.7 p.m. [This mail will'be due in London on December 2hd.l

OCEAN M AIL SERVICES.

Via Brindisi and Naples to London.

Mails for above services will be announced at Timaru Post Office as connecting steamers offer. The next German mail packet leaves Melbourne 9th Nov. Due at Berlin 19th December. , . The next French map packet leaves Melbourne 7th Nov. Due at Marseilles on Bth December. Mails for South Africa close at Melbourne, per Thermopylae, about sth Nov. Mails for Cromarty and Puysegux , Point close at Invercargill on Thursday, 22nd inst., at 11 a.m. Mails for Earatonga and Tahiti will close at A uckland on Thursday, sth N ov., al 4 p.m. ; ' R. J. Goodman, Chief Postmaster. Chief Post Office, Timaru, October 22nd, 1898,

Leave Melbourne. | Arr. London. Via Naples Nov. lOtb „ Brindisi „ 17th „ Naples „ 24th „ Brindisi Dec. 1st Dec. 16th „ 22nd „ 30th Jan. 5th, 1897