Page 2 Advertisements Column 4

Manawatu Herald, 24 December 1895, Page 2

Royal 2qHk& Mail COACH TO LEVIN. J. R. STANSELL . . Proprietor. THE ONLY SERVICE that has 1 kept up continuous intercourse with the outer world. Distance from Foxton to Levm Station about 14 miles, the road going through the pivttiest scenery in the district. During the nearly four years' service over the Wirokino Ferry, the mail has been delivered every day, in spite of floods. As showing THE ADVATAQE O* 1 THIS ROUTE, even during the week of the late heavy ! flood, the mails and 27 passengers I were conveyed by boat and vehicles. The route by boat was both safe and an enjoyable change to thepasser>gers in fact like a pienic, atod all who j travelled expressed themselves well pleased with the arrangements made. •On the breakdown of the railway service on Easter Monday, occasioned by the heavy flood, this Levin route was tho only way open to pas- : sengers from Palmerston to Foxton. Five Foxton residents were driven in the Coach from Levin on Tuesday i morning, 16th April, after having ! previously endeavoured to get over from Shannon. On Monday, the 15th April, the usual C.ach was run through the flood to Levin as well as a vehicle in the afternoon to Kereru, with the Manager of the New Zealand Es^ I tates Company and the Secretary of the Wellington Freezing Company 1 as passengers, who failed to succeed in crossing at the Shannon Ferry in the morning. Single F.^res, 4s ; Return (available 1 month), 6s. The Coach leaves Whyte's Hotel, Foxton, every week day at 5.30 a.m.", for Levin, catching the train to Wellington at 8.0 a.m. The Coach leaves Levin Hotel at U.lo a.m. on the arrival of the train from Wellington, reaching Foxton at 12.15 p.m. Passengers by this route will reach Wellington by mid-day, and at a cost, of only 17s return. NO TOUTS OR AGENTS REQUIRED. [a card.] THOS. B. CRUMP, BARRISTER & SOLICITOR, Palmerston North. Visits Foxton and Otaki Court. " A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL." W. B. RHODES, Grocer, Ironmonger & General Commission Agent, Main-street, Foxton. Desert Fruits—Muscatels, Figs, Prunes and Preserved Ginger, also Jordan and Shell Almonds, Barcelona and Brazil Nuts, Chocolate Creams in Boxes and Fancy Baskets. Variety of Lollies. W. B. RHODES. CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. 'pHE MANAWATU HERALD will not be published NEXT THURSDAY, Boxing Day.