Royal SsWs& Mail ■COACH TO LEVIN. J. R. STA3SELL .. Proprietor, 1 THE ONLY SERVICE that has I kept up continuous intercourse with tho outer world. Distance from Foxtou to Levin Station about 14 miles, the road going through tiho pr. ttiest scenery in the district During the nearly four years' service over tho Wirokino Ferry, the mail has been delivared every day, in spite of floods. As showing THE ADVATAOE OF THIS ROUTE, 6VGn duriug tho week of the late heavy flood, the mails and 27 passengers were conveyed by boat and vehicles. The route by boat was both safe and an enjoyable change to the passengers in fact like a picnic, and all who travelled expressed themselve3 well pleased with the arrangements made. On the breakdown of the railway service on Easter Monday, occa sioned by the heavy flood, (his Levin route wt>s tho Only way open to passengers from Palmorston to Foxton. Five Foxton residents were driven in the Coach from Levin on Tuesday morning, lGth April, after having previously endeavoured to get over from Shannon. On Monday, the 15th April, the u^ual C. ach was run through (he flood to Levin as well as a vehicle in the afternoon to Kenru, with the Manager of the New Zealand Estates Company and the Secretary of the Wellington Freezing Company J as passengers, who failed to succeed [ in crossing at the Shannon Ferry in tho morning. Single Fares, 4s ; Return (avail able 1 monih), 6s. The Coach leaves Whyte's Hotel, | Foxton, every week day at» 5.30 a.m., for Levin, 1 catching the trainto Wellington at 8.0 a.m. The Coach leaves Levin Hotel at 10.15 a.m. on the arrival of the train ■ from Wollington, reaching Foxton at 12.15 p.m. Passengers by this route will reach Wellington by mid-clay, and at a cost, of only 17s return. NO TOUTS OR AGENTS BEQUIRED. ' [a card.] THOS. bTcRUMP, DARRISTEB & SOLICITOR, D Palmerston North. Visits Foxton and Otald Court. The Editor of the Max a. watu Herald, Foxton. Dear Sir,— l notica in your valus able columns that a' gentleman, by name.E. S. Thynue (not unknown in Foxton), is advertising SHEEP DIP for sale. Now, sir, will you kindly inform your readers that I can sell them SHEEP DIP, or ANYTHING ELSE, as cheaply as anybody. You might also tell them that I am AGENT FOR— The Anchor S.S. Co.'s steamers Kennedy, Charles Edward, Waverley, Aorere, &c, N Z. Times and Mail, Evening Post, Sporting Rev : ew, Auckland Weekly iVewn, Christchurch Press and liejeree, and Standard Insurance Coy., and nobody CAN BEAT THE RATES. Yours truly, W. B. RHODES.
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Manawatu Herald, 23 January 1896, Page 2
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