MAIL NOTICES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2694, 27 December 1909, Page 3

MAIL NOTICES.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29. For Auckland, per Tarawera, 6 p.m. For Napier, "Wellington, and South, per Victoria, 4 p.m. _ For Australia (due in Sydney otn January). Tasmania, Ceylon, India, Straits Settlements, China, Japan, and Philippine Islands, also Continent of Europe and United Kingdom, via Sues? (due in London 4th February), connecting with P. and O. line at Wellington, per Victoria, 4 p.m. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31. For Auckland, per Mokoia, 7.30 p.m. ' > For Australia (due in. Sydney 6th January), Tasmania, Ceylon, India, Straits Settlements, China, Japan, and Philippine Islands, per Mokoia, 7.30 p.m. For South Africa (due in Capetown about 6th February), per s.s. Wileannia, from Melbourne, per Mokoia, 7.30 P ‘ in ' SUNDAY, JANUARY 2. United States of America, Canada, "West Indies, Central America, "West Coast of South America, via Sail Francisco (due in London 7th February); also Samoa, Hawaiian Islands, and Japan, connecting with the s.s. Hauroto at "Wellington, -per Tarawera, 4 p.m. r For Napier, Wellington, and South, per Tarawera, 4 p.m. For Auckland (via the Main Trunk), per Tarawera, 4 p.m. NEW YEAR HOLIDAYS. . Post Office —To-day (Boxing Day) the office will be open in all branches, except money order and savings bank, from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. Receivers and posting b*xes will be cleared on the evening of Friday, 31st inst. Saturday Ist January, 1910 (Now Year’s Day) will be observed as a close holiday. Mails usually despatched on Saturday will be closed on Friday night, the 31st inst, at 7.30 p.m. To-day the usual despatch of mails up to 8 a.to. will be made. Receivers and posting boxes cleared accordingly. A delivery will be made by letter carriers on the afternoon of the 31st inst. To-day one complete delivery, by letter carriers will be made, leaving the office at 7.30 a.m. On Friday evening, the 31st inst, a delivery of town letters will be made between 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. over the counter, and at parcels delivery wicket. Telegraph Office. —The following hours will >be observed on Monday (for Boxing Day), and Saturday (New Year’s Day), 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and 7 p.m. to midnight. Telephone Exchange.—Hours as usual—viz., 7 a.m. to 11 p.m.

Mails for the Commonwealth of Australia only, via Sydney, per Wimmera, close at Auckland on Monday, 2/tli December, at 8 n.m. < Mails for the Commonwealth of Australia only, via Hobart, per Manuka, clo.se at Bluff on Tuesday, 28th inst., at 6 n.m. . . _ Mails for Rarotonga, Tahiti, Penrliyn, Aitutaki, and Marquesas Islands, also Canada, United States of America, United Kingdom, and Continent of Europe, via San Francisco, close at. Wellington, per s.s. Hauroto, on Tuesday, January 4th, 1910, at 10 a.m. Best-op-portunity for Canada and United States and best opportunity for United Kingdom and Continent, of Europe after Friday despatch, 31st "Pecember. No special address required.- r v Mails for Chatham Islands, per Ripple, close at Lyttelton on Friday, 31st inst., at 4 ip.m. ' )

Money orders for places beyond New Zealand cloße 1 hour 30 minutes before ihi closing of the ordinary mail. In regard to'places within the colony, money orders and registered letters dose 1 hour, and parcel post parcels 30 minutes before the ordinary mail. ’*' W, H. RENNER, Chief Postmaster