MAIL NOTICES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2697, 30 December 1909, Page 3

MAIL NOTICES.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31. For Auckland, per Mokoia, 7.30 For Australia (due in. Sydney 6th Januaiy), Tasmania, Ceylon, India, Straits'Settlements, China, Japan, and Philippine Islands, per Mokoia, 7.30 p.m. For South Africa (due in Capetown about Gth February), per s.s. Wilcnnnia, from Melbourne, per Mokoia, 7.30 p.m. SUNDAY, JANUARY 2. United States of Canada, West Indies,' Central America, West Coast of South America, via San 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. 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 Receivers and posting tuxes 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. A delivery will be made by letter carriers on the afternoon of the 31st inst;, and 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 Saturday (NewYear’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. A mail for Wellington and South, per Waimea, will close at 3.30 p.m. today. Mails for the United Kingdom_and Continent of Europe, via Monte Video and Teneriffe and Rio de Janeiro, per Athenic, close at Wellington on Thursday, 30th inst., at 10 a.m. Mails for Australia, Ceylon, India, China, Japan, Straits Settlements, South Africa, Europe and United Kingdom, close at Wellington on Friday, 31st inst., per s.s. Marama, at 2.30 p.m. . . Mails for Rarotonga, Tahiti, Penrlivn, 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 opportunity for Canada and United States and best opportunitv for United Kingdom and Continent of Europe after Friday despatch, 31st December. No special address required._ Extended Notice. —-'Mails for Chatham Islands, per Ripple, close at Lyttelton on Monday, 3rd January, at 4 p.m. Mails for Niue close at Auckland on 4th January at 8.35 a.m., per Atua, to connect .with s.s. Dawn leaving Apia. The Wellington-Brindisi despatch of the 19th November arrived at London on the 24th inst. Money orders for places be vend New Zealand close 1 hour 30 minutes before be 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 minntes before the ordinarv mail, v. " W FT. RENNER, . TTtoijaf - "Print,-m nut,nr