EASTER HOLIDAYS

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7678, 11 April 1903, Page 6

EASTER HOLIDAYS

j Easter Monday.— The Post Office -will be open in all branches, except Money Order and Savings Bank, between 9 and 10 a.m. The u=ual despatch of mails will b<* made up to 8 I a.m. Mails for south express will close at 9 a.m. No delivery by letter carriers will be j made on Good Friday or Easter Monday, but a delivery of all letters wi.l be made over the publio counter on Thursday, April 9, and Saturday, April 11_. 7.30 and 8.30 p.m. Mails for Australian. State?, per Mceraki, ©lose at Bluff c-n Men-day, at 3.15 p.m. Mails for Sou ih Africa, close at Melbourne c-n April 15 -and 16. Mails for Barotonga, -and Tahiii, per Taviuni, close at Auckland on April 21, -»& 11 a.m. Mails for Fiji, per Mcura, olose at Auckland an April 22, at 11 a.m.-, The next mail from the United Kingdom is due in Christchurch on April It, via J lirindisi. " ! J. F. MoBETH, j Chief Postmaster. j

the saxophone has a great future. Tliis is the instrument that Lieutenant Morton wishes to introduce into the Christchurch Garrison Band. Wagner wrote some " bell " effects for the orchestra in his opera, " Parsifal," the pitch of which was far below any that ever were, or will be. heard in this world. Much fmirk-.-.s ingenuity has been expended in endeavouring to realise the composer's wish, but in vain, and the nearest to the pitch desired by Wagner that has been got is an octave higher.