MAIL NOTICES.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 2, Issue 222, 21 December 1880, Page 2

MAIL NOTICES.

Mails close at the Chief Post Office, Christchurch, for the following places (subject to necessary alterations) as under:—

Friday, December 24. For Northern Ports, per Penguin, at 7.30 p.m. ; guard's van, 8.30 p.m. train. A supplementary mail per Penguin for late fee letters only will be closed on Saturday, 25 th December (Christmas Day), at 7.30 p.m. ' Friday. December 31.

For the United Kingdom, via San Francisco, Ac., as under :— Money orders and registered letters, at 5 p.m.; books and newspapers, at 9 p.m.; ordinary letters, at 10 p.m. A supplementary mail will be closed at 7 p. in. on Saturday 7 , January, 1, 1881. Late fee letters may be posted in the guard’s van attached to the 8.30 p.m. train on Saturday, January 1. __ t On Saturday, Ist January Year s Day), all branches of the Post Office will be closed.

Mails close at the Ashburton Post Office, as follows :

For Cliristchurch and North at 5.30 a. m. 10 a. m., and sp. in., daily 7. For Chertsey Rakaia. &c., at 10 a. in. and 5 p. m. daily. For Dunedin, Tinwald, Winslow, Hinds, -jaldstreain, Rangitata, Orari, Winchester, and Geraldine, at 10 a.m. daily. For Temuka, at G a.m. and 10 a.m., daily. For Timaru and South, at G a.in., 10 a.m., and 4.20 p.m., daily. For Greenstreet, Ashburton Forks, Mount Somers, and Ashburton Gorge, on Tuesdays and Friday's, at 10.30 a m. For Ashton, Waterton and Longbeach, at 4. 30 p. m. daily. For Wakanui, Elgin, and Seafield, on Tuesdays and Fridays, at G a. in.

Mails arrive at the Ashburton Post Office — From Christchurch and Rakaia at 10.20 a.m., 4.35 p.m., and 7.50 p.m. From Chertsey, &c. at 10.25 a.m. daily. From Dunedin and intermediate places at 5.35 p.m. daily. Fv«m Teiu«h«i. ami Timaru at 10.15 min. off'? pnn:, arid 8.15 p. m.-'d-Hy-From Greenstreet, Ashburton Forks, Mount Somers, and Ashburton Gorge on Wednesday's and Saturday's at 3 p.m. From Ashton, Waterton, and Longbeach at 10 a. m. daily 7 . From Wakanui, Elgin, and Seafield on Tuesday's and Fridays at 2.30 p.m. W. St. G, Douglas, Postmaster.