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Westport Times, Volume II, Issue 223, 18 April 1868, Page 3

PANAMA, NEW ZEALAND, AND AUS TRALIAN ROYAL MAIL COMPANY (Limited). QTEAM TO ENGLAND. CALIFOENIA, AND NEW YORK, VIA PANAMA, n conjunction with the steamships of the of London, and Pacific Mail Steamship Company, of Now York The Screw Steamship M A T A U E A , 2000 tons register, 500 horse power, G. E. Bibd, R.N.R., Commander, Is a2}pointod To leave WELLINGTON for PANAMA, OK FRIDAY, Bth MAY, At Three, p.m., WITH HER MAJESTY'S MAILS.

Through Bills of Lading are issued at moderate rates, and shippers may rely on regular delivery, in good order, in schedule time. I This Company's Steamers leave Sydney on I the Ist, and Wellington on the Bth of each 1 Tfi lt n Ve du ° at Panama 0n fc he sth or 6th __ ..._„ — V^.UU) u,ijvx vriij. luriu regular connection there as follows : FOE SOUTHAMPTON: Leave COLON on 6th or 7th ; arriving at SOUTHAMPTON 29th of each month. FOR SAN FRANCISCO: Leave PANAMA on 9th; arriving a* SAN FRANCISCO 22nd of each month.' FOR NEW YORK: Leave COLON 12th or 13th ; arriving at NEW YORK 20th or 21st of each month. Passengers booked from all this Companv's agencies, at through rates, to Jamaica, St. Inomas, Havanna, Trinidad, Vera Cruz, and Demerara. First-class passengers are allowed 336 lbs or 20 cubic feet for luggage ; second class 168 lbs., or lo cubic feet, which must be delivered at the Company's office twenty-four hours be tore the departure of the steamer, when it will be labelled, manifested, weighed and measured.

All excess to be paid for as measurement goods, without primage. Second Class passengers are provided with excellent accommodation, and with bedding and all necessary utensils. The branch steamer Airedale will leave HOKITIKA, ON P RID AY, Ist MAY, to connect with the Mataura at Wellington. Intending passengers are hereby informed that the Koyal Mail Company have determined upon running their steamers direct from Aspmwall to Southampton, and vice versa thereby entirely avoiding the West India Islands, and the transhipment which calling at them involved. For full particulars, rates of freight, passage &c, apply to 6 John White, Agent, Gibson's Quay, Hokitika.

NELSON RACES!! CHEAP TRAVELLING 1 CHEAP TRAVELLING!! ■ opicuum ijbvv uarivaiiea > X twin screw Steam-Ship. "JOHN PENN," M. Caeet, (late of the s.s., Kennedy) Commander. Will be despatched for Nelson on Monday night, APRIL 20th, in time for the above races. All Tickets issued this month, will be good for the return journey, and will be for the— Saloon, ... £3 0 0 Steerage, ... 1 10 0 The Saloon accommodation of the John Penn is pronounced on all hands, superior to anything ever seen before on the West Coast. Eor freight or passage, apply to the Agent, Me J. KIRWON, Empire Hotel, Ur, to the Pttesee on Board. JOHN JOHNSON. Westport, April 18, 1868.

NOTICE. YATES' MEMOEIAL EUND. ALL COLLECTING CARDS for the above Fund are requested to be handed to the undersigned, with the sums collected on or before Monday, 20th inst. JAS. M'DOWELL, Hon. Treasurer.