MAIL NOTICES.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 2, Issue 350, 21 May 1881, Page 2

MAIL NOTICES.

’ Mails close at the Chief Post Office for the following places (subject to the necessary alterations) as under : - Wednesday, May 25. f For the United Kingdom, via Brindisi (lor' specially addressed correspondence only). Continent of Europe, Point de GaUe, India, the East, China, Japan, Aden, Mauritius, Natal, Cape of Good Hope, Suez, the Mediterranean Ports, and Australian Colonies, &c., per express train (to connect with s. s. Rotorua at the Bind), as follows Ordinary letters, at 7'S.m. ; books and newspapers at 6 a.m. ; registered letters at 5 p.m. on Tuesday I2th'; money orders at 4p.m. on Tuesday 12th. Late lee letters may be posted in the travelling Post-office van attached to the express train on Wednesday, May 25th. „ For Northern Ports, per Hawea, at 1,40; p.m. ; fee letters at 2 p.m.; guard’s van, 2.30 p.m. train. ' 'Malls close at the Ashburton Post Office, as follows; For Christchurch and North at 5.30 a. m. 1,0-a. m., and 5 p.m., daily. For Chertsey Rakaia, &c., at 10a.m. and 6 p.m. daily. ■ For Dunedin, Tinwald, Winslow, Hinds, Coldstream, Rangitata, Orari, Winchester, and Geraldine, at 10 a.m. daily. For Temuka, at 6 a.m. and 10 a.m., daily.,. For Timaru and South, at 6 a.m., 10 4,tn., and 420 p.m., daily. .For Greenstreet, Ashburton Forks, Mount Somers, and Ashburton Gorge, on Tuesdays and Fridays, at 10.30 a. m. /For, Ashton, Waterton and Longbeach, at 430 p.m. daily. For Wakanui, Elgin, .Seafield, Newland, and Kyle, on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, at 6 Am. Mails arrive at the Ashburton Post Office— From Christchurch and Rakaia at 10.25 From Ohertsey, &c. at 10.25 a.m. and 435 p.m. daily. • From Dunedin and intermediate places at 5,35 p.m. daily. From Temuka and Timaru at 10.15 a. m. 5.35 p.m., and 8.15 p.m. daily. ■ From Greenstreet, Ashburton Forks, Mount Somers, and Ashburton Gorge on Wednesdays and Saturdays at 3 p.m. From Ashton, Waterton, and Longbeach at 10 a. m. daily. From Elgin, Wakanui, Seafield, Newland, and Kyle, on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, at 4 p.m. W. St. G. Douglas, Postmaster.