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Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8041, 8 December 1887, Page 2

MAIL'NOHOSa. Maiis will be closed at the Ohlet Post-office. Devon-street, as follows: — gg- For United Kingdom and Continent . of Europe, per direct steamer' Tainui, ' close to-morrow (Friday), December 9th, at. 6 a.m. Mail due at Plymouth January 21sr. Correspondence must be specially marked lor this boat. The 'Frisco mail, which missed, owing to the llawea passing on, will be forwarded by the Tainui. i &- For Auckland and North, per s.s. Gairloch, close to-morrow (Friday), 9th Decembpr, at 6 a.m. f^> For Australian Colonies, via Sydney, • close on Saturday, 10th December, at 10 a.m. O-^For South America, United Kingdom, and Europe, per direct contract steamer Buapehu, close on Tuesday, 13th December, at 330 p.m. Money orders and registered letters at 2 p.m. This mail is due in London on January 26th. Beceiviug-box for letters is now established at tte corner of Devon and Brougham streeti. Hours of clearing : 6 a.m and 3 p.m., and one hour before closing of seaborne mails, F. D, HOLD3WORTH, Ohiaf Postmaster. Chief Post-office, New Plymouth.

,To be Published in December. TWENTIETH YEAR OF PUBLICATION. Directory, Diary, and Year Book ™ 1888. 'I'^HlS^Almanac has the largest circulation | of any Year Book in the Taranaki District, and will, in addition to the information nsially found in a work of this n Mare, contain new features, which are calculated to keep up the reputation of this Almanac. Advertisements should be seat in at once. * TASANAKI ALMAttAC. Notice to Secretaries ot Societies. |" ISTB of Officers of Friendly and othsr JLJ Societies, Institutions, and Companies, intended for insertion in the TAUANAKI Almanac, 1868, should be sent in to this Office AT ONCE, addressed to the " Compiler of the Taranaki Almanac." t£§T Early attention to this matter is requested, as last year a quantity of matter was sent in too lule to secure insertion. * WOW PBIC3 ONE SHILLING, THE SUNKEN ISLAND, A NOVELETTE, Written by A. Hood, author of " Oronoa," &c, rpilE plot of this Sovolette is taken from _| a Maori Lcgaml, and conUins striking incidents in Nnuve life going on ere the doyo of Captain Cook, ihe style of writing is quite j.ew, and entirely different from any pieceding effofr a>, Maori delineation ; replete from begiuning ioeud with interest; abounding with a rumi-rkable diversity in incidents, depicting the ilfjly procieudi:gs of the Aborigines of New, Zealaudat a remote, bygoue period. In short, a collection of topics which are eminently calculated to stimulate all readers — bless them II — to provide themselves straightway with a copy. lEsT Copies may be obtained at tho tauanaki Hkbald Office, and from Mr. Gilmour, Duvon-strtet. PRICE—ONEiSHILLING