Page 2 Advertisements Column 4

Manawatu Herald, 15 February 1896, Page 2

I Royal Jlii^ Mail ' COACti TO LEVIN. !J. It. STANSELL . . Proprietor. I HE ONLY SERVICE that has i kept up continuous intercourse with the outer world. Distance from Fostou to Levin Station ab-ju 14 miles, the road going through the pr ttiest scenery in the district During the nearly four yeans' service over the Wirokino Ferry, the mail has been delivered every day, in spite of floods. As showing THE ADVATAQE OF THIS ROUTE, 6VeU during the week of the lute 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 thepasseDgers •n fact like a picnic, and all who travelled expressed themselves well pleased with the arrangements made. ] On the breakdown of the railway seivice on Easter Monday, oeca sioued by the heavy flood, this Levin route whs tha only way open to passengers from Palmerston to Foxton. Five Foxton residents were driven I in the Coach from Levin on Tuesday morning, 16th April, after having previously endeavoured to get ovei 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 Estates Compnny and the Secretary of the Wellington Freezing Company as passengers, who failed to succeed in crossing at the Shannon Ferry in the morning. Single Fares, 4s ; Return (avail able 1 month), Cs. The Coach leaves Whyte's Hotel, Foxton, every week day at 5.30 a.m., for Levin, catching ihe train to Wellington nt 8.0 a.m. The Coach leaves Levin Hotel at IJ. 15 a.m. on the arrival of ihn train from Wellington, reaching Foxton at 12.15 p.m. Passengers by this route will reach Wellington by mid-day, an<t at a cortt, of only 17s return. NO TOUTS OR KG E NTS JRE* QUIRED. [a card.] THOS. B. CRUMP, HARRISTUK & SOLICITOR D Palmerston North. Visits Foxton and Otaki Court. The Editor of thp Man 4. watu Herald, Foxton. Dear Sir, -I notice in your valus able columns that a gentleman, by name, E. S. Thynne (not unknown in Foxton), ia advertising SHEEP DIP for sale. Now, sir, will you kindly inform your readers that I can sell them SfIEEP 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 Jiev etc, Auckland Weekly Newn, Chiiatchurch Press and h'ejeree, and S andard Insurance Coy., and nobody CAN BEAT THE BATES. Yours truly, W. B. RHODES.

FOXTON STATE SCHOOL. Week ending February 14th, 1896. Average Attendance ... 211 „ Absentees ... 61 Number on 801 l ... 272 W. S. Stewart, Head Master.