MAIL NOTICES.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2223, 12 April 1881, Page 2

MAIL NOTICES.

Mails close at the Chief Post Office for the following places (subject to the necessary alterations) as under : WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13.

For the United Kingdom, via Brindisi (for specially addressed correspondence only), Continent of Europe, Point de Galle, India, China, Japan, the East, Aden, Mauritius, Natal, Cape of Good Hope, Suez, the Mediterranean Ports, Australian Colonies, &0., per express train (to connect with s.s. Botomabana at Bluff), as follows:—Ordinary letters, at 7 a.m.; books and newspapers at 6 a.m ; registered letters at 5 pm. on Tuesday, 12th ; money orders at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, 12tb. Late fee letters may be posted in the travelling Post-office van attached to the express train on Wednesday, April 13th. Note —The rate of postage for the United Kingdom by this route is 8d per half ounce. For Northern Ports, per Hawea, at 3.20 p.m.; late fee letters, at 3.30 p.m.; guard’s van, 4 p.m. train.

The next mail for the United Kingdom, &c. (via San Francisco), will leave on April 23rd. Friday, April 15th (Good Friday), being a Post Office holiday, all branches of the department will be closed. The office will open from 9 to 10 p.m. on Thursday night to deliver to applicants letters addressed within the lettercarriers’ deliveries. The mails of Friday will close on Thursday, at 8 p.m. BYPNEt J. DICK, Chief Postmaster.