Royal Jg|||fe Mail COACH TO LEVIN. J. R. STANSELL . . Proprietor. TTIE ONLY SERVICE that has 1 kept up continuous intercourse with the outer world. Distance from Foxtou to Levin Station about 14 miles, the road going through the ur ttk :£i scenery in the district During tlio uewrlje i'our years' service over tho Wirokino Ferry, the mail has been delivered every day, in spite of floods. As showing THE ADVATAOE OP THIS ROUTE, 6Ven during the week of the late heavy flood, the mails and 27 passengers were conveyed by boat and vehicles. The route by boat was both safe aud an enjoyable chunge to thepassepgers in fact like a picnic, and nil who travelled expressed themselves well pleased with the arrangements made. On the breakdown of the railway service on Easter Monday, occa sioned by the heavy flood, this Levin route was tha only way open to passengers from Palmerston to Foxton. Five Foxton residents were driven in the Coach from Levin on Tuesday morning, 16th April, after having previously endeavoured to get over from Shannon. On Monday, the 16th April, the usual C ach was run through the flood to Levin us well as a vehicle in the afternoon to Kereru, with the Manager of the New Zealand Es> tates Company and the Secretary of tho Wellington Freeaing Company as passengers, who failed to succeed in crossing at the Shannon Ferry in the morning. Single Fares, 4s ; Return (available 1 month), 6s. The Coach leaves Whyte's "Hotel, Foxton, every week 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 train from Wellington, reaching Foxton at 12.15 \,.m. Passengers by this route will reach Wellington by mid-day, and at a cost, of only 17s return. NO TOUTS OR AGENTS BEQUIRED. [a card.] THOS. B. CRUMP, HARRISTER & SOLICITOR, D Palmerston North. Visits Foxton and Otaki Court. The Editor of the Manawatu Herald, Foxton. Dear Sir,— l notica in your valus able columns that a gentleman, by name, E. S. Thynne (not unknown in Foxton), is advertising SHEEP DIP for sale. Now, sir, will you kindly inform your midnrs that I can sell them BHEEP DIP, or ANYTHING ELSE, as cheaply as anybody. You might also tell them j that I ana AGENT FORThe Anchor S.S. Co.'a steamers Kennedy, Charles Edward, Waverley, Aorere, &0., N Z. Times and Mail, Evening Post, Sporting Jiev'ew, Auckland Weekly A T eios, Christchurch Press and Rejcree, and Standard Insurance Coy., and nobody CAN BEAT THE RATES. Yours truly, W. B. RHODES.
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Manawatu Herald, 4 February 1896, Page 2
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435Page 2 Advertisements Column 4 Manawatu Herald, 4 February 1896, Page 2
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