MAIL NOTICES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19236, 25 November 1930, Page 2

MAIL NOTICES.

C.#WH9li«d by the Postal Department.) Matte close as under:— Tester (ToMdey), November 25. Por northern ports, at 5.25 p.m.; late fee letters, 5.55 p.m.; guard’s van, 7.10 p.m. train. Parcels 4 p.m. Mails for Great Britain, Ireland avwA Continent of Europe (specially addressed correspondence only), also Central America, British, French and 3>atch Guiana.. Venezuela, Republic Of < 'olombia, Peru, Ecuador, Chile and Bolivia, via Panama Canal (per Mahana, from Wellington), close at 5.25 p.m4 late letters 5.55 p.m., guard’s van 7.3 0 p.m. train. Parcels at noon. Due London January 5. Wednesday, November 2d. .For northern ports at *5.25 p.m.; late fee letters, 5.55 p.m.; guard’s van, 7.10 p.m. train. Parcels 4 p.m. Outgoing Overseas Mails. Mails for Australian States, Egypt, Japan, China, Straits Settlements, Ceylon. India, and South Africa (per Uliinarca from Wellington) close on Thursday, November 27, at 5.25 p.m. Connects with Karachi-I.ondon air mail due London December 31. Correspondence will also be accepted for dispatch by air-mail services in Australia. Parcel mail for New South Wales, Queensland, China, Japan, and Straits Settlements (per Ulimaroa, from Wellington >. closes on Thursday, November 27. at 4 p.m. _ Mails for Fiji. Tonga, Apia and Page Pago (per Tofua. at Auckland), close Thursday, November 27, nt 5.25 p.m. Mails for Great Britain. Ireland and Continent of Europe, United States of America, Canada. West Indies, Mexico, Argentine. Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Falkland Islands, via San Fran-r-isco, also Cook Islands and Tahiti (per Monowai, from Wellington), close on Monday, December 1. at 5.25 p.m. Due J.ondon January 1, 1931. Correspondence will also be accepted for by rir-mail services in Canada and United States of America. Incoming OrtrMM Kails. Australian mail, per Mahia, from Sydney, due November 25. Australian mail, per S.S. Ulimaroa from Sydney, due November 26. Australian mail, per Maunganui from Sydney, due December 2. English mail. from London, per S.S. Remuera. due December 2. English and American mail, per R M.M.S. Aorangi, from Vancouver, due December 2. F. J. SHANKS. Chief Postmaster.

The long-familiar coloured globes in chemists’ windows were first displayed bjr the Moorish druggists of Arabia and Spain. Owing to the curvature of the earth’s surface, the distance between a spectator on the sea-shore and the dip of the horizon becomes greatr according to the height of the spectator above the level of the sea. The rule for measuring the distance is as follows: To the height of the eye in feet, add halt the i.eight, and extract the square root of Ihe sum, the result being the distance in statute miles. Hence, if the spectator’s eye were six feet above the level of the sea, the distance would be three mile#; if his eye were ten feet above the level of the «ea. the distance would be nearly four miles.