POST OFFICE NOTICES.

Evening Star, Issue 3692, 22 December 1874, Page 2

POST OFFICE NOTICES.

MAILS CLOSE. Per s.s. Tararua, on Wednesday, December 23, as under : Direct mails for India, China, Japan, Penan?, Singapore, Manilla, Aden, Mauritius, the British, French, and Austrian Post Offices at Alexandria, Malta, Gibraltar, Brindisi, France, &c., at 12 noon. lor New South Wales, South Australia, i western Australia, Queensland, and Tasmania, at 1 p.m. ’ For Southland, Victoria, London via Southampton, and via Brindisi, and for correspondence for the Continent of Europe, &c., sent in London mails, at 1 3d p.m. For issue of money orders and posting of registered letters and newspapers, at 11.30 a.m. Late letters, with one additional single rate per letter, may be posted as follows : For New South Wales, South Australia, western Australia, Queensland, and Tasmania, at 1.00 p.m. For Southland, Victoria, London, via Southampton and via Brindisi, and for correspondence for the Continent of Europe, &c., sent in London mails, at 2 p.m. . N.B. Letters, &c., intended for transmission by this mail, must be specially addressed via Suez. Northern Ports ®f New Zealand.—Per Wellington, on Thursday, December 24, at 9.30 a.m. Southland. Per Express, on Saturday, December 2d, at 3.30 p.m. There will be a mail despatched from this office for Martin’s Bay on Monday, 28th inst. at 6 a.m. The steamer Wonga Wonga is expected to leave Auckland at 10 a.m. to-morrow, the 23rd mst. felegrams for the Australian Colonies or Europe, via Java cable, will be received at the Telegraph Office, Dunedin, for transmission to Auckland, up till 8.15 o'clock a.m. Friday, 25th inst. (Christmas Day), being a Post Office holiday, all mails for despatch that day will close at 8 p.m. on Thursday, 24th instant. ARCH. BARR. , , Chief Postmaster, Chief I‘osr rum« ( (in t December 22,1874.