MAIL NOTICES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 10305, 9 November 1911, Page 2

MAIL NOTICES.

4. Letter mails close for tho following places aa tinder, subject to the necessary alteration h : Mails per expresß to Dunedin and South closo daily at 7 a.m. and ]l. a.m.; late fee (i.e.. letters bearing 3d additional stamp), 11.15 a.m.; also mail van up to 8 a.m., and guard's ran, 11.55 a.m. train. Books and newspapers, 7 a.m. and 10.10 a.m. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 0. For Northern Forts, also for Australia a States, etc. (duo Sydney November 14), India. China.. Ceylon, Hong Kong, Straits Settlements. South Africa, etc.; also Continent of Europe and United Kingdom, via Naples, due London December 16, per s.s. Maori, to connect with Manuka, at (>.15 p.m.; late feo letters, 6.45 p.m.; guard's van, 7.40 p.m. train. Money orders •1 p.m., registered articles and parcels 5 p.m., books and newspapers ">.'45 p.m. Fi'dDAY, NOVEMBER 9. For ])«gr3in and Invercargill, per Moann, at 12.(S(f f«.Yn.; Jnto teo letters, 12.45 p.m.; guard's van, L 25 p.m. train. For "Northern Ports, and also for Now South SVules and Queensland, per Mararoa, to connect with Victoria, at 4.15 p.m.; lato foo letters, 4.:iU p.m.; guard's van, 5.'25 p.m. train. Mails from the United Kingdom, etc., via Naples, that leit London on October G, are due in Cliristchurch on November 14, as follows: Letter*, via Auckland, at 8 a.m.; newspapers, 5..'i0 p.m., via Bluff. The next mail for Canada, United States of America, etc.. via San Francisco, will ciose at Cliristchurch on November 16. The next mail irom the United Kingdom, etc. (despatched from London on October 4), via San Francisco, is duo in Cliristchurch on November 10. Mails for tho United Kingdom, etc-, despatched from Cliristchurch on September '27, '.in, Naples, arrived in London on November 5, one day late. Xote.—November 10 (Show Day)— The usual letVr carriers' town delivery will be made up to ll.no a.m., and in the suburbs only one delivery will be made. Alphon.se Fougcroux, a workman in tho Kochefort Arsenal, has invented a clever apparatus for saving the officers and men in a wrecked .submarine. It is a .simple apparatus, consisting of a kind of box, which is fixed to the bridge of he submarine, but. in case of accident, can be entered by the men on board, be released ami Hoat with them to the surface. Fougeroux has already invented an apparatus for raising submarines after wrecking.