POST OFFICE NOTICES.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume I, Issue 40, 27 December 1879, Page 2

POST OFFICE NOTICES.

I; 7 *-' Mails leave the Ashburton Post Office, s ‘'' -aa follows• ■ , ' _ _ - For Christchurch and North at 10.20 a.m. : '‘4 p.m., and 7.30 p.m., daily. • . For Chertsey at 10.20 a.m daily. - For Rakaia at 10,20 a.m and 4 p.m daily. For Ouneclin, Tinwald Winslow, Hinds, V. Coldstream, Rangitata, Orari, Winchester, and GenOdine, at 10.20 a.m, daily. .. ForTemuka, Timaru, and South at 10.20 ;:i a.m and 3 p.m daily. For Greenstreet, Ashburton Forks, Mount Somers, and Ashburton Gorge on Tuesdays and Fridaysat X 0.30 a.m • ‘ : For Ashton, Waterton, and Longbeach, at i i p.m. daily. . • Fo#'; Wafeanui .and .Seafield, on Mondays , and Thursdays,'7.3b. p.m, . _ ■ - - r Sydney J- Dick, r H t Chief Postmaster. NEW POSTAL REGULATION* ■' Letters'posted- within the colony having the ’ Sanies and addresses of the senders printed on address-side of tijc envelopes, accompanied ' by«r«fluest that the letters lie returned if not claimed within a stated period, will be return--Iw...d»n©perie.d< Provided,-hovvever, such letters snail have Remained in the post office to which '' they may be addressed at least tea days. • ' notice.. - -a-travelling Post Office having been establiShed on the Southern line of railway, letters ‘ bearing a latetfee of 2d. may be posted at any station in the mail carriage attached to the - express train, and they wall be included in the mails'made up in transit for offices on the main , line and branches. ! "■: 1 ■ ’ UNCLAIMED LETTERS. The following letteis from places beyond ■the' colony were received at the Ashburton ■' Post Office during the month of October, --- and remained .unclaimed on the Ist Decern - . , her, 1879 ’ ' flehifctt,'Frank Bunton, W. Clucas, E. , . ' Hill, Walter (Z) • ’■ tockey. John Hampton . ■ jil‘. CartJjy, Jeremiah Murraif, William •; {: ;A. Shepjmerd, Elizabeth •Slush, John . Sbmssen, T.-, ■ *'■ •. ; ; Valpy, fohn N. • “ Williams, John w Vohhg,' L. TV , On-the first da; A each month a list is ex- . ffibited at each P< .t Office in the Colony of the addresses of all letters received from places be--7 'ybnd the Colony that,have rcmaind unclaimed - for one month at such Post Office; and such of 3 A these letters as remain unclaimed at the end ’ of a further period of two months are then for- ' ’ " warded to rt«e Dead Letter Office, to be returned unopened to the countries where they originated, Unclaimed letters originating in the Colony are not advertised, but at the end o. two mom lis are forwarded to the Dead Letter office, Wellington, there to be opened and rev rngd tht writers,