MAIL NOTICES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 378, 30 July 1869, Page 3

MAIL NOTICES.

Mails for the Northern Ports of New Zealand close at 1.30 p.m., on Monday, Aug. 2. Mails for the Fiji Islands, per Jeanie Duncan, close at 8 a.m., August 4. Letters muat be specially addressed. Mails for Callao, per Caroline Coventry close at 9.30 a.m., Friday, July 30. Letters must be specially addressed. Mails will close at the chief Post-office on Friday, Aug. 6, for the undermentioned places : — United Kingdom, via Suez and Marseilles, at 8.30 a.m. Continent of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, at 8 a.m. Australian colonies and Northern provinces of New Zealand, at 8.30 a.m. Newspapers at 7 a.m. Late letters for the United Kingdon, the Australian colonies, and Northern ports of New Zealand, can be posted until 9.25 a.m., by the addition of a sixpenny stamp. Money orders and registered letters at 5 p.m., on Thursday, the sth of August.

Pretty Hindoo Proverb. — Sweet is the music of the flute to him who has never heard the prattle of his own children. Some that hare heard the prattle, at times prefer the flute.

Sally having been absent for a day to visit her sister, who had got twins, was asked by her mistress, upon her return, " what she thought of the twins." She replied, " Well ma'am, the one's so like both, that you wouldn't know t'other from which." Poetic. — I clasped her tiny hand in mine ; I embraced her beauteous form ; I vowed to shield her from the wind, and from the world's cold storm. She set her beauteous eyes on me, the tears did wildly flow : and with her little lips she said — " Confound you, let me go ! "