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Lyttelton Times, Volume V, Issue 568, 14 April 1858, Page 1

EUROPEAN AND AUSTRALIANROYAL MAIL COMPANY (Limited). REDUCTION OF FARES.—OVERLAND ROUTE. rjIHE Royal Mail Steam-ships will be -L despatched from Sydney for Suez, (carrying her Majesty's mails,) calling at intermediate ports, or, THE 11th of EACH MONTH, at 1 o'clock, p.m. Rates of Passage Money, including transit through Egypt, medical attendance, use of bedding and linen, steward's fees, and all other charges, except for hotel expenses in Egypt, wines, spirits, malt liquors, and mineral waters — £90, TO SOUTHAMPTON; £85, TO MARSEILLES j or, RETURN TICKETS, £135. European servants, half-fare; native servants, one-fourth fare. A reduction of one-sixth of the established rate will be. made in favour of families, but only in cases where the amount of passage money (if charged in full for the whole party) would be equal to the full charge for four adult passengers. Passengers may have their tickets endorsed to remain a month at any intermediate port. The mode of transit through Egypt is. as follows :— Between Suez and No. 12 station in desert, a distance of 25 miles, in carriages, and from thence the whole distance to Alexandria by railway. Rates of freight on specie, gold dust, &c, can be ascertained on application at the Company's Offices. CHAMPION WETTON, Superintendent. SCHOONER FRANCES, CAPT. BROWN, 120 TONS. finHE above fine schooner is daily expectJL ed from Sydney, and will proceed from this Port to Otago. should sufficient inducement offer. For freight'or passant-*, apply to COOKSON, BOVv'LER.. & CO.. » Ag-ents. Lyttelton, April o, ISSS. ENGLISH COALS, EX GLEXTAXXEB. ON Sale at the Ferry Wharf, and delivered in Cliristchiu'ch. Apply to J. C. AIKMAN. February 3rd, ISSS: NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS. fTIHE Provincial Government is pre_i- pared to receive tenders for the metalling of portions of the north and south roads. Specifications and conditions of contract may be seen on application at the office of PublicWorks, Christchurch. Tenders must be sent in on or before noon, on Saturday, May Sth, when parties tendering' must be in attendance. The Government will not be bound to accept the lowest or an}' tender. E. DOBSOX, Provincial Engineer. Office of Public Works, Christchurch, March 22, ISSS. nm x . D A R T. Black and gunpowder teas Raw and refined sugars Coffee, liquorice Can-away seeds, mixed spice Nutmegs, ground ginger Candles, soap. Grey calico, white sheeting, black alpaca and I French twill; drab coburgs, drab and black j moreen ; blue and white serge: men's grey | tweed trousers;. ladies' brown silk parasols, kid gloves, and black ribbon velvet; mens' Aberdeen knit sox, lambs' woul ditto ; womens' brown cotton stockings, childrens' sox, girls' white stockings, worsted braids, worsted and cotton laces, needles, thread, cotton, tapes. &c, &c. J. G. FYFE. London-street, April 5, ISSS. ON SALE BY THE UNDERSIGNED :— Thrashing machines, patented 1856, from Richard Pease's celebrated Excelsior Agricultural Works, New York. J. T. PEACOCK & CO.