MAIL NOTICES.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 8659, 23 October 1896, Page 2

MAIL NOTICES.

Subject to any necessary alterations nails will close as under: — Saturday , 24th October. For Northern Ports of New' Zealand, per Penguin, at 4.30 p.m. ■Wednesday, 28th October. For the Australian Colonies (via Bluff), 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 2nd.)

OCEAN MAIL SERVICES

Via Brindisi and Naples to Loudon.

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 6th Nov. Mails for Raratonga and Tahiti will close at Auckland on Thursday, sth Nov., *l4 p.m. . Mail for New Hebrides closes at Sydney on 2nd Nov. The next direct mail for the United Kingdom and Europe will leave Wellington, per Ruahine, on 4th Nov.; due in London 14th Dec. Mails for Fiji close at Auckland on 6th Npy., per Upolu... .... ... : " R. J. Goodman, Chief Postmaster. Chief Post Office; Timaru, October 23rd, 1896.

Leave Melbourne. | Arr. London. Fia Naples Noy. 10th „ Brindisi „ 17th „ Naples „ 24th „ Brindisi Dec. 1st Dec. 16th ,, 22nd „ 30 th Jan. 5th, 1897