Mail Notices

Southland Times, Issue 19232, 19 December 1903, Page 2

Mail Notices

LETTER CARRIERS' DELIVERY: Deliveries by Letter Camera are made dailyTown delivery at 8 a.m and 1 p.m. Suburban delivery at S a.m.

Monday, 21st Phc. Federal Sbbvxce. For Natal and Cape Colony at 2.45 p.m. For the United Kiugdo a and the Continent of Europe (via Suez), India, China, Straits Settlements, Aden, Egywr, and the Au.3tra.lian States, per p.s. Victoria, at 2.45 p.m. Parcels for Australian States at 1.45 p.m. Money Orders and Registered Lebtera at 1.45 p.m. The English mail of this despatch will bo ue io L'»iid«n on 31st January. San Francisco Mail Seeyice. For the United States of America, Canada, West Indies, Central America, West Coast of South America, United Kingdom, and Continent of Europe via San Francisco (due in London on 23rd January), also Japan, Samoa and Hawaiian Islands at 3.15 p.m. Money orders and registered lettereat2. ls p. nil, aud parcola for United States at 3.15 p.m. W DNESDAY, 23& D BBC. Australia mates (except, Tasma ia), cod, ne ting with s.s. Warrimoo, at Wellington at 3.30 p.m. ' AI ney ■ ders aod Registered letters at 2.30 p. -. Par 1 for New South Wale« and Queens»ml only 3 15 , ,"■. Dv v Syd .'• y on 30th December.

Christmas Cards, Etc. The publiu are reminded that cards • n closed iv envelopes not entirely open at one end are liable to be charged deficient postage at letter ratea upon delivery, and lor places beyond the colony will be detained and sent to the Dead Letter Office, WeiliDgfc t. Ncze Mails close ai, M elbourne, for Capt • town, on 24th Lfeoembor. Mails close at Auckland on 26th December for Raratonga, Tahiti and Penrhyn islands, at 4 p.m. Mails close at Sydney for Natal and OapetoWD, per s.s Damascua, on 17th inst, and for Capetown on 23rd in6fc.

Note. — Christmas and New Year's Day being post office holidays, all mails advertised for despatch on these days will be closed at 8 p.m. on Thursday, the 24th and 31efc inßt. There will be no delivery by letter carriers on either (Christmas or New Year's Day, but instead a general delivery will be made over the counter at tbe'post office on Thursday, 24th and 31st iust., between the hours of 7 and 8 p.m. On the 26th (Boxing Day) the post office will be open in all its branches, except money order slid savings bank, from 9 to 10 a.m., and the usual despatch of mails will be tnadieiifrto 8 a.m. 'Xte suburban and »fnvu fe«*;v« ; s 'will bo cleared at 7 a.m. One QsttnA*'' *;■ dd v < r.y «"ii( f.e made by (own Mid tuburbun l<ner cwniors eta/iiijg at B»ra, On tin- 25" li (CiuißLiua- Oty}, ihe Telefe'»ph Ofik-e will bw open fioni 9.30 t<» 10 am., and 5 to 5.30 p.m., and on the 26ih | and Ist January, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and from 7 pm. to midnight. The telephone exchange will be open as usual. 0. A. TIPPING, ■ . •• . . Chief Postmaster.