MAILS.

Evening Post, Issue 9, 17 February 1865, Page 3

MAILS.

Mails are despatched- and received at Wellington per overland conveyances as follows :— For Pahautanili, Waikanae, Otaki, Manawatu, Turakina, Eangiiiki, Middle Kangitiki, and Wanganui, every Monday, at one p.m., and received from those places every Saturday at eleven a.m. "'' For the Lower Htitfct, Taita, and Upper Hutt —Daily "(Sundays execpted). Despatched "at three p.m, received at eleven a.m. For Karoi'i — Wednesdays and Saturdays, at three p.m. ; received at eleven a.m. For Porirua — Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, at half-past two p,m. Wairarapa. — For Featheraton, Greytown, Carterton, and Masterton, every Wednesday and Saturday, at eleven a.m. ; received every Tuesday and Friday, -at ten a.m. For Wharema, Castle Point, Porangahau, and Napier — Every alternate Wednesday, at halfpast eleven a.m. ; return mail received every alternate Tuesday, at ten a.m. For all the Post Towns in New Zealand, by vessels as opportunity offers, The Post Towns are Auckland, Ohristchurch, Dunedin, Invercargill, Lyttelton, Napier, Nelson, New Plymouth, Picton, Wanganui, Blenheim, Campbelltown, Havelock, Onehunga, Port Chalmers, Port Waikato, Raglan.— Boll's Almanac.

Mr. Bloom, the grocer, met with rather a serious accident whilst proceeding to the Fort yesterday morning in his spring cart. It appears that his horse shied at some straw lying by the side of the toad, precipitating the cart over the cliff and smashing it to pieces. Mr. Bloom, although much shaken, is not seriously hurt. The horse escaped with a severe bruising.— Canterbury Press. Only a few days agojthe papers announced the marriage of Captain the Hon. Earnest Cochrane, R.N., son of the late gallant Earl of Dundonald,.G.O.B., to Adelaide, daughter of His Excellency Major Blackall, Governor of Siena Leone, formerly well-known as M.P. for Longford. The sad announcement has since appeared of the Hon. Airs. Cochrane's death at Madeira, three weeks only after marriage. She was but 23 years old. The French Minister of Public Instruction has granted a pension of 800 fr. to the ifidow of the last of the Troubadours, M. Jasmin. What snows does summer never melt ?— The snows of age. An enormous piggery at Portesham, in Dorset, now contains a herd of swine nearly 4000 in number. The animals are chiefly fed on wheat and maize. Pig meat is 2s. a score dearer than it was at this time last year, owing to the scarcity of butchers meat in general. A duel took place tt few daj-s Jago in the forest of St. Germain, between M. G. Irrison and the Count de Komar. After some altero tim the weapon chosen was the sword. 111 1 a few minutes the latter gentleman received a wound in the arm, which put an end to the combat. The seconds of M. Irrison were the Duke deßivoli and M. de Loignes, and those of Count de Komar M. de Sfdhthel and Oonnt Tlikevitcb.