POST OFFICE NOTICES.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume I, Issue 16, 1 November 1879, Page 2

POST OFFICE NOTICES.

Mails close at the Chief Post Office, Christchurch, for the following places (subject to the necessary alterations) as under ; Saturday, November 1. For Otago, per Rotomahana, at 3 p.m. For Northern Ports of New Zealand, per Hawea, at 7 p.ni. The next mail for the United Kingdom, Continents of Europe and America, &c, via San Francisco, will be closed at Christchurch on Saturday, Bth November. This mail is due in London on 23rd December. The next mails for the United Kingdom, &c, via Brindisi and Southampton (for correspondence addressed by either of these routes only) will be closed at Christchurch on November 19. The mail via Brindisi will be due in London on the 12th of January, 1880, and the mail via Southampton on 19th January, 1880. Mails leave the Ashburton Post Office, as follows : For Christchurch and North at io 20 a.m. 4 p.m., and 7.30 p.m.. daily. For Chertsey at 10.20 a.m daily. For Ralcaia at 10.20 a.m and 4 p.m daily. ■ For Dunedin, Tinwald Winslow, Hinds, Coldstream, Rangitata, Orari, Winchester, and Geraldine, at x 0.20 a.m, daily.

For Temuka, Timaru, and South at 10.20 a. in and 3 p.m daily. For Greenstreet, Ashburton Forks, Mount Somers, and Ashburton Gorge on Tuesdays and Fridays at 10.30 a. m For Ashton, Waterloo, and Longbeach. at .15 p.ni. daily. For Wakanni and Seafield, on Mondays and Thursdays, 7.30 p.m. Sydney J. Dick, Chief Postmaster.

UNCI-AIMED LETTERS. The following letteis from places beyond the colony were received at the Ashbuitcn Post Office during the month of August, and temained unclaimed on Ist October, Allinham, J. Charles, Richard Critchley, W. S. Deacon, William Devane, Patrick Fraher, John Criffin, Morgan Maclean (or Maclear) John Kennedy, William Kissane, Michael Larkin, Andrew Morrison, James Moriarty. Michael Quinlan Mary Ryan, Thomas B. Sharp, Sames Valpy, John N. Vincent, J. Walker, Archibald Woodman, W. D. Young, Lewis P. McAllister, Mrs Black, John Twiss, Michael W. St, G. Douglas, Postmaster.

On the first dat J each month a list is exhibited at each Pc ,t Office in the Colony of the addresses of all letters received from places beyond the Colony that have remaind unclaimed for one month <it such Post Office; and such of these letters as remain unclaimed at the end of a further period of two months are then forwarded to the Dead Letter Office, to be returned unopened to the countries where they originated. Unclaimed letters originating m the Colony are not advertised, but at the end of two months are forwarded to the Dead Letter Office, Wellington, there to be opened and returned to the writers.

A travelling Post Office having been established on the Southern line of railway, letters bearing a late fee of ad. may be posted at any station in the mail carriage attached to the expre=s train, and they will be included m the mails made up in transit for offices on the main line and branches. NOTICE. NEW POSTAL REGULATION. Letters posted within the colony having the names and addresses of the senders printed on the address side of the envelopes, accompanied by a request that the letters be returned if not claimed within a stated period, will be returned unopened. Provided, however, such letters shall have remained in the post office to which they may be addressed, at least ten days.