Royal jgaSs? Mail COACH TO LEVIN. J. R. STANSELL .. .Proprietor. ; HE ONLY SERVICE that has I kept up continuous iut<-rcourse with tho outer world. Distance I from Foxton to Levin Station about 14 miles, the road going through the pr-ttiest sceneiy in tho district During the nearly four years' service over the Wiiokino Ferry, the mail has been delivered every day, in spite of floods. As showing TIIF, ADVATAOE OV THIS ItOTJTE, eVOn I during the week of the late heavy flood, the mails and 27 passengers were conveyed by boat and vehicles. Thp route by boat was both 8«fo aud an enjoyablo change to thepasserg^rs in fa-t like a picnic, and all who travelled expressed themselves well pleased with the arrangements made. On the brenkdown of the railway seivice on Easter Monday, occa sioned hy the heavy flood, this Levin mute was tin only way open to passengers from Palmerston to Fo» ton. Five Foxton residents were driven in tho Coach from Levin on Tuesday 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 Lovin as well as a vehicle in the afternoon to Ker^ru, with the Manager of the New Zealand Es> tates Company and the Secretary of tho Wellington Freezing Company as passengers, wtoo 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 the train to Wollington »t 8.0 a.m. ! Tho Coach leaves Levin Hotel at 1J.15 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-clay, and at a cost, of only 17s return. NO TOUTS OR AGENTS REQUIRED. [a card.] THOS. BTcfiUMP, p \RRIST liß & SOLICITOR, Palmerston Nobtu. Visits Foxton and Otaki Court. The Editor pf thp Man vwatu Herald. Foxton. Deau Sir, - 1 notice in your valns able columns that a gendeman, by nainw, E. S. Thynne (not unknown in Koxton), is advertising (SHEEP DlPf>r sale. Now, sir, will you kindly inform your lv.ukrs that I can sell fchem S'IEEP DIP, or ANYf BING ELSE, as cheaply as anybody. You might also tell them that I am AGENT FORThe Anchor B.S. Co *s steamers Kennedy, Charles Edward, Waver ley, Aorere, &c, N Z. Times and Mail, Evening Post, S2)orting Bev : ew, Auckland Weekly Knot, Christchurch Press and Rejeree, and Standard Insurance Coy., and nobody CAN BEAT THE RATE 3. Yours truly, W. B. RHODES.
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Manawatu Herald, 6 February 1896, Page 2
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