MAIL HOUSES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2469, 6 April 1909, Page 3

MAIL HOUSES.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7th. For Auckland, per* Monowai, 8.80 -a.m. For Napier, Wellington, and South, ,‘per Wimmera, 4 p.m. For Auckland (via the Main Trunk), j per Wimmera, 4 p.m. For Australia (due in Melbourne 14th. April), Tasmania, Ceylon, India, Straits . Settlements, China, Japan, and Philippine Islands; also, Continent of Europe and United Kingdom, via Suez (due in London May 16th), connecting with P. and 0. line at Wellington, per Wiminera, 4 p.m. For South Africa (due in Capetown about 10th May), per s.s. Arric, from Melbourne, per Wimmera, 4 p.m. THURSDAY, APRIL Bth.' - For Auckland, per Mokoia, 7.30 p.m. (supplementary mail 8 -a.ru., 9th). For Australia (due in Sydney April 16th), Tasmania, Ceylon, India-. Straits Settlements, China, Japan, and Philippine Islands, per Mokoia, 7.30 p.m. (supplementary mail 8 a.m., 9th.) For Vancouver and other parts of Canada, and United States of America, Hawaiian Islands, and Japan, also GontThent’ of Europe and United Kingdom, tTa Vanvouver (due in London 18th May), per s.s. Navua, from Auckland (for specially-addressed correspondence only), connecting with 6.3. Marama, at Fiji, per Mokoia, 7.30 n.m.-(supplemen-tary mail 8 a.m., 9th)„ • SUNDAY, APRIL 11th. For Napier, Wellington, and South, per Monowai, 4 p.m. For Auckland (via the Main Trunk), -*kl Monowai, 4 p.m. Mails for Wellington and south, per Whakarua, -close at 6 p.m. to-day. Mails for the United Kingdom and ‘Continent of Europe, via Monte Video, Rio Janiero, and Ten,eriffe. per Paparoa, close at Wellington on Thursday, Bth inst., at 9 p.m. The mails despatched from Wellington ? via Brindisi, on ,26ih February, arrived at London on the afternoon of :2nd inst. Mails for. Cromarty, Puysegur Point, and Te Oneroa, per Invercargill, close at Invercargill on Thursday, Bth inst., at- 12-30 p.m. Please Note.—Money orders for places rtieyond New Zealand close 1 hour 30 • minutes before closing of fire mails. Mails for the Commonwealth of Australia, Ceylon, India, China, Japan, Straits Settlements, also Sruth Afrits, of Europe, and 1 1 niterl KingMom, per Manuka, close at \Yelrngtou on Thursday, Bth April, at 8 p m. EASTER HOLIDAYS. Post Office.—On Good Friday, 9th April, a close holiday will be observed. On Easter Monday.. 12th April, all post offices will be open in all branches, ex--cept -money order and Savings Bank, from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. There will be' no delivery bv letter carriers. On Thursday, 'the Btli, and Saturday the 10th, a delivery of town letters will he made over the counter, aiid at -delivery wicket from 7 to 8 p.m. .Mails usually despatched on Friday wul close on 'Thursday, Bth inst., at 7.30 p.m. On Easter Monday the usual despatch oi mails up to B'a.m. will he made, private box lobby will be open at frt.vv-s. Good' Friday, 9.30 a.m. -o il p.m,; Easter Monday, 8 a.m. to ni dnigm. ' Telegraph Office.— The . Telegvopli •-"Office will observe the following Hours-: '’flood Friday, 9.30 to, 10 a..n., and o to ■5.39 p.m.; Easter Monday,--9 a.m. v o 4 p.m., and 7 p.m. to midirg’it. Telephone Exchange.—hi mrs on > .eou Friday and Easter Monday, 7 a.m. to ll filoney-orders and registered letters < close one hour, and parcel-post parcels ■• thirty minutes before the ordinary mail. Parcels for the United Kingdom _ and < Continent of Europe are- sent by direct ; steamers only. . W-. H. RENNER, Chief Postmaster.