MAIL NOTICES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6647, 20 November 1899, Page 2

MAIL NOTICES.

Mails close for the following places asunder, subject to the necessary alterations:— TUESDAY, NOV. 21. For Northern Ports and Westport, per Rotomahana, at 7.45 p.m. ; late feo letters, 8 p.m. ; guard's van, 9.15 p.m. train. WEDNESDAY, NOV. 22. For Northern Ports t per Elingamite, at 4.20 p.m.; late fee letters, 4.35 p.m. •_ guard's van, 5.30 p.m. train. FRIDAY, NOV. 24. For Northern Ports, Westport, and Australian Colonies, Samoa, Hawaii, Japan, also United States, Canada, etc., United. ' Kingdom and Continent of Europe, via San Francisco, per Mokoia, as under: — For money-orders, at 4 p.m.; registered letters, 5 p.m.; books and newspapers, 7.30 p.m. ; ordinary letters, 7.45 p.m. ; late fee letters, 8 p.m. ; guard's van, 9.15 p.m. train. Due Sydney Nov. 30, London Dec. 27. SATURDAY, JTOV. 25. For Australian Colonies (via Bluff), South Africa, Ceylon, India, China, etc., also United Kingdom and Continent oi Europe, via Suez, per express, to connect with Monowai, at 10.30 a.m. ; lale feo letters, 10,40 a.m. ; mail van, 11 a.m. Due Melbourne Dec. 3, London Jan. 7. Mails for South Africa leave Melbourne *oa Nov. 29 and Dec. 20. Mails for Raratonga and Tahiti, per Ovalau, close at Auckland on Isbv. 21, at 4 p.m. Mails for Noumea and Fiji leave Sydney on Nov. 29. - < J Maite for Australia, etc., per Waihora, close at Auckland on Nov. 20, at 4.30 p.m. Mails for Cromarty, Puysegur .foint and Te Oneroa close at Invercargill on Nov 23 at 3.30 p.m. ' R. KIRTON, Chief Postmaster.

i ' particular conditions, and the body he raised in Burma did admirable and most effective work. Symons's war services were continued in Burma and beyond. He was a brigadiergeneral with the Chin field force ; he commanded the column from Burma in the Cliin Lushai' expedition; he was in the Waziristan expedition, and quite recently, he was actively engaged in the last hard-fought, tedious campaign on the north-west frontier of India, at first with a brigade in the Tochi •field force, and then with a division in the Tirah expedition. He had been fighting almost continuously for the last fifteen years. He has made a close study of the drill and tactics of the various arms, artillery, cavalry, and infantry. Symons was before everything else a firstclass sportsman. He cpiUid hunt a pack of hounds as well as he could command troops. When serving in Madras he was the Master of the Ootacamund Hunt, and was famed for showing splendid sport. His cheery 1 musical " Halloa !" and the many merry gallops he gave the field will long be -remembered by comrades of both services, civil and military. No trained huntsman could be on better terms with his hounds, no master more indefatigable, less discouraged by difficulties in the.jßeld. He was a fine horseman, ever in the first flight across a country, and not less capable of holding his own between the flags. He loved a good horse.