Royal &m®sh 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 Levin Station about 14 miles, the road going through the pivttiest scenery in the district During the nearly four years' service over iho Wirokino Ferry, tho mail has been delivered every day, in spite of floods. As showing THE ADVATAGE OF THIS ROUTE, even during tho week of the lnte heavy flood, the mails and 27 passengers wore conveyed by boat and vehicles. The route by boat was both safe and an enjoyable change to tnepassengers in faut like a picnic, and all who 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 w«i6 the only way open to passengers from Palmerston to Foxton. Five Foxton residents were driven in the Coach from Levin on Tuesday morning, lGlh April, after having previously endeavoured to get over from Shannon. On Monday, the 15th April, the usual C' ach wa3 run through the flood to Levin as well as a vehicle in the afternoon to Ker«*ru, with the Manager of the New ISaalaiul Es-« tates Company and the Secretary of tho Wellington Freezing Company as passengers, who failed to succeed in crossing at tho Shannon Ferry in the morning." Single Fares, 4s ; Return (available 1 monih), Gs. The Coach leaves Whyte's Hotel, Foxton, every woek day at 5.30 a.m., for Levin, catching iho train to Wellington at 8.0 a.m. The Coach leaves Levin Hotel at 13.15 a.m. on the arrival of the traiu from Wellington, reaching Foxton at 12.15 p.m. Passengers by this route will reach Wellington by mid-dny, and at a cost, of only 17s return. NO TOUTS OR AGENTS EEQUIRED. [a card.] THOS. B. CBUMP, DARRISTEII & SOLICITOR, Palmerston North. Visits Foxton and Otald Court. The Editor of the Manawatu Herald, Foxton. Dear Sir,— l notioS in your valus able columns that a gentleman, by name, E. S. Thynne (not unknown in Foxton), is advertising SHEEP DIP fjr sale. Now, sh\ will you kindly inform yonr rearkrs that I can sell them SHEEP DIP, or ANYTHING ELSE, as cheaply as anybody. You might also toll them that I am * AGENT FORThe Anchor S.S. Co.'s steamers Ken- • nedy, Charles Edward, Waver- - ley, Aorere, &c, N Z. Times and Mail, Evening Post, Sporting Review, Auckland Weekly Neivs, Christchurch Press and JRcjeree, and Standard Insurance Coy., and nobody CAN BEAT THE RATES. Yours truly, W. B. RHODES.
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Manawatu Herald, 25 January 1896, Page 2
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429Page 2 Advertisements Column 4 Manawatu Herald, 25 January 1896, Page 2
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