CHIEF POST-OFFICE.

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 436, 3 June 1871, Page 2

CHIEF POST-OFFICE.

Mails will close as under :—

For Thames, this day, at 4 p.m., and on Mon

day, at 1.30, 4 and 5.30 p.m. For KapanT". etc., per Lalla Boolth, on Mon-

day, at 10.30 a.m. For Wangaivi Heads, etc., per Duke of Edinburgh, on Monday, at 5 p.m. For tbe Australian Colonies, per Kate, on Tueoday, at 9 a.m. For Fiji, per James Paterson, on Tuesday, at 1.30 p.m.

Mails for the undermentioned places per Nebraska, will close at this office on Friday, 16th inst., as follows:—

For Sandwich Islands, British Columbia, United States of America, Biitish, Central and South America, British and Foreign West Indies, and Continent of Europe via England, at, 12.30 p m. Fo" United Kingdom via San Francisco, at 12.30 p.m. For money orders, registered letters and news-

papers, at 11 a.m. Late letters for United States of America an<l United Kingdom, bearing a late fee of 6d in addition to the postage will be received at this office till 1 p.m., and by the mail agent on board the steamer up till time of sailing. Note.—Eevised tables of rates of postage can now be obtained at this office; price, 6d. Note.—Mails for Port Albert via Helensville, Otamatea, Pahi, Paparoa and Matakohe, will in future close at this office at 10 a.m. on Wednesdays, instead of Mondays as heretofore. The return mails from the above offices will arrive on Friday evening, in place of Saturday. Mails for places on the Wairoa (Kaipara) river will continue to be despatched on Monday mornings, but will in future arrive in Auckland on Wednesdays, in place of Saturdays.

S. B. Biss, Chief Postmaster,