MAIL NOTICES.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1631, 24 December 1912, Page 9

MAIL NOTICES.

Subject to necessary alterations, mails will cloao at the Chief Post Office, as under:— THIS DAY, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24. Wanganui and Kcw Plymouth, also Jlanawatu, liangitikci, and Taranalti districts, per. Jlanawatu train (Thorndo:: Station), 6.50 a.m. Wanganui and Jlanawatu, and' Eangitikei districts, per Jlanawatu train (Thorndon Station), 3.15 p.m. Wairarapa district, per Wairarapa train (Lambton Station), C.3U a.m. and 3.30 p.m. Napier and Ilawke's Bay district, per Jlanawatu train (Thorudon Station), 8 a.m. and 3.15 p.m. Auckland and district, oleo New Plymouth and Wansanni, per Main Trunk train (Thorndon Station), 10.50 a.m. Auckland and Auckland district, per fiecond Main Trunk train (Thorndon Station), 7.45 p.m. Picton and Blenheim, per \Te Anau,. 11 Pi'cton, Blenheim, Ncleon, West-port, Ecefton, Greymouth,. and Hokilika, per Jlapourika, 5 p.m. Greymouth.. Hokitika, and lteofton, per Ngahero, 4 p.m. Net-on. Westport, Eoefton, Greymouth, 'and Hokitika. per Alexander, 4.30 p.m. Blenheim, per Yv'airau, 7.45 p.m. Nelson and French Pass, pox Kdkau, 4,20 p.m. '

Southern offlces of Now Zealand, per Mokoia, Tarawera, and Mararoa, 6.15 p.m. Picton, Blenheim, and Nctean, per lo Anau, 7.45 p.m. West-port, pei- Katoa, 7.45 p.m. WEDNESDAY DEOEMBEE 25. Nelson, per Pateena, 6.30 a.m. (Steamer sails 11 p.m.) Napier and Gisborne, per Jfonowai, 6.30 a.m. (Steamer ceils 10 a.m.) Southern offices of New Zoaland, and Greymouth, Hokitika, and Jkefton, per Maori, 6.30 a.m. (Steamer Enils 8.20 p.m.) FEIDAY. DECEMBER 27. • Parcel mail for South America, via Monte Video, also Tencriffe, United Kingdom, and Continent of Europe, per lonic, 9 a.m. South America., via Monte Video, and TenoriSe, also United Kingdom and Continent of Europe (duo London February 81, per lonic, 10 .-v.m. Correspondence for United Kingdom and Continent of Europe must be specially addressed. Ceylon, India, China, .lopan, Straita SettlcmentG,. South Africa, also Continent of Europe and United Kingdom, via Brindisi (duo London January 31), per Maoinganui, 3.30 p.m. llonay-orclors 'must be obtained two hours before tho advertised time of closing tho mails. Australian States (due Sydney December 31), per Maunganui, 3.30 p.m. • must bo obtained two hours before the advertised time of cloeing tho mails. •Mails for Australian States close at tho Bluff, per Ulimaroa, this day at 3 p.m. The next best dispatch for United Kingdom and Continent of Europe wUI be via Brindisd, closing at Wellington, per s.e. Maunganui, on Friday, December 27, at 5.30 p.m. The next best dispatch for Canada, United Stat«3 .of America, Central America, and West Indies will be via Barotonga, Tahiti, and San Francisco, closing at Wellington, per Abrangl, on Friday, January 3, at 3 p.m. On Wednesday, December 25, and Wednesday, Jo.nua.ry 1, Christmas aoid New Year'a Days, tho Postal Department will be closed in all its branches. On tho above-named days mails dispatched by steamers will close at 6.30 a.m., alto mails by trains for tho - Wairarapa, Taranaki, Wanganui, Eangitikci, Manawatu, Hawke's Bay, and Auckland districts will c1oe« at 6.30 a.m. Thor? will not be any clearances of the city receivers or deliveries by lotter-carriera on tho abovc-n;vmed days. On Tuesdays, December 24 and 31, there will be deliveries by the letter-carriers in the letter-carriers-room, on the first-floor entrance, Featherston Street, from 8.30 to 9.30 p.m., and the Parcels Department will be open from 8.30 to 9.30 p.m.; also deliveries over the public counter at tho Chief Post Office from 8.30 to 9.30 p.m. of correspondence addressed to the Post Offlce only. On Tuesdays. December- 24 and 31, extra clearances will be mado as foUow: All city receivers will be cleared at 6 p.m.; Wellington South. Ki'.birnic, and Ha-taitai receivers at 5 p.m., and suburban ones at 4.30 p.m. On Thursday, December 26, -Boxing Day, tho Postal Department will be open in all its branches (except tho Money-order and Savings-bank Departments) from 9 to .10 a.m. Mails dispatched by steamers and mails for the Auckland district, per Main Trunk train, will clorc at 9.15 a.m.; mails by trains for the Wairarapa, Taranaki. Wanganui, P.o.ngitikci, Manawatu. and llawke'a Bay districts will close at 6.30 a.m. Tho letter-carriers will make one full deHvorv. closing at the Chiof Post Office at. 7 a.m. The city receivers will not be cleared during the day. All books and samnle-packcts ond newspapers for nlaccfi within the Dominion must bo posted half an houir before the ordinary letter-mail closes. . D. MILLEE. Chief Postmaster. Chief Post Office. Wellington, December 24, 1912. WIRELESS. P.adio Office, Wellington.—The steamers Mocraki (Sydney t.o Wellington), Victoria (Auckland to Gisborne), Navua (Wellington to Lyttelton), UHmaroa (Bluff to Hobart), Wimmera (Auckland to Sydney), A.tua (South Sea Islands to Auckland), and Ma-.unganui (Dunedin to Lyttelton) should be within wireless range this evening.