MAIL NOTICES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2386, 30 December 1908, Page 3

MAIL NOTICES.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30th. For Auckland, per Monowai, 8.30 a.m. - For Napier, Wellington, and South, per Victoria, 4 p.m. mf>- For Auckland, via New Plymouth, - per Victoria, 4 p.m. For Australia (due in Sydney Jan. sth). Tasmania,, -Ceylon, India, Straits Settlements, China, Japan, and Philippine Islands; also Continent of Europe and United Kingdom, via Suez (due in London sth February) connecting with P. and O. Line at Wellington, per Victoria, 4 p.m. For United States of America, Canada, West Indies, Central America, West Coast of South America, via

San Francisco (due in London February '7th), also Samoa, Hawaiian Islands and Japan, connecting with s.s. v " Manapouri at ’Wellington, per Victoria, 4 p.m. , For South Africa (due in Capetown about 30th January), per Salamic, from Melbourne, per Victoria, 4 p.m. SATURDAY. JANUARY 2nd. For Auckland, per Manuka, 9 a.m. For Australia (duo in Sydney Jan. 8tli), Tasmania, Ceylon, India, Straits Settlements, China, Japan, and Philippine Islands, per Manuka, 9 a.m. SUNDAY, JANUARY 3rd. For Napier, Wellington, and South, Ager Monowai, 4 p.m. Auckland, via New Plymouth, . w? per Monowai, 4 p.m. SATURDAY, JANUARY 16tli. For Vancouver and other parts of Canada, and United States of America, Hawaiian Islands, and Japan, also Continent of Europe and United Kingdom, via Vancouver (due in London 24th February, per Navua, from Auckland (for specially-address-.ed correspondence only), connecting until s.s. Moana at Fiji, per Mokoia, 9 a.m.

Mails for the Commonwealth of Ceylon, India, China, "a pin. Straits Settlements; also oouth Africa, Continent of Europe, and United Kingdom, per Ulimaroa close at Wellington,. Thursday 31st inst. at 1.45 p.m. Mails for tlic United Kingdom and Continent of Europe per Waiver a, close at "Wellington, Thursday 31st inst. at 10, a.m. Best dispatch for penny papers for United Kingdom. Extended Notice. —Mails for Cha-

tham Islands, per Ripple, close at Lyttelton on Saturday January 2nd, 8 p.m. ■I Mails for Tonga, Samoa, .and Fiji, Tofua, close at Auckland, Tuesday, January 4tli, at 6.45 p.m. Mails for" the Commonwealth of Australia, Ceylon, India, China, Japan, Straits Settlements, -also South Africa, Continent of Europe, and Kingdom, close at Auckland f£iv Manuka,- Monday, January 4th, Mails for Raratonga, Tahiti, Caro a da, United States of America, .also United Kingdom and Continent of Europe, via Frisco, due London about sth February, 1909,- per s.s. Manapouri close at Wellington, Saturday d, 2nd, 1909, .at 7.45 p.m. Best dispatch for United Kingdom and Continent of Europe after s.s. Ulimaroa on 31st inst.. The Wellington-Brindisi despatch of the twentieth November, arrived in London on the night or the twenty-fifth instant.

Aloney orders and registered letters close one hour, and parcel pos parcels 30 minutes, before the ordinary mail.

CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR Mk HOLIDAYS. POST AND TELEGRAPH DEPARTAIENT.

25th and 26th December, 1908, and Ist January, 1909. ,■ Postal Branch. —Fridays the 2oth December and Ist January (Christmas Day and New Year’s Day) will bo observed as close Un_baturday, tlie 26tli inst (Boxing Day), the Post Office will bo open in all branches excepting tlie Aloney Order and Savings Bank, from 9 a.m. to 10 Receivers and posting boxes will be cleared on they evenings of the 24th and 31st insts. Mails usually despatched on Fridays m will be closed on Thursday nights, r the 24th and 31st insts, at 7.30 p.m. On Boxing Day, the 26tli inst., the usual despatch of mails np to 8 a.m. will be' made, receivers and posting boxes cleared accordingly. On the 26tli inst. a complete delivery by letter carrier will be made. __On Thursday, the 24th and 31st insts, a clelivery of town letters (including registered) will bo made between 7 and 8 ■p.m. at tlie Post Office wicket. Telegraph Office'—On Friday(Clinstmas Day) Sunday hours will be observed, viz., 9.30 a.m. to 10 a.m. and 5 to 5.30 pirn. On Saturday (Boxing Pay) and Friday (New Year’s Day) the office will be open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m, and 7 p.m .to 10 p.m. Telephone Exchange.—Special hours will be observed on Christmas Day, viz., 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. only. On Boxing Day and New Year’s Day attendance as usual from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. W. H. RENNER, v . Chief Postmaster, W Gisborne.