Page 2 Advertisements Column 3

Manawatu Herald, 21 March 1896, Page 2

Royal 2&|§s®s Mail COACH TO LEVIN. J. R STANSELL, ... Proprietor. _ | -rpHE.ONLY .SERVICE that has | I kept up continuous intercourse I with the outer world. Distance ' from Foxton to Lev'? Station about M miles, the road going through the pruttiest scenery in the district. During the nearly four years' service over tho Wirpkino i'erry, the mail ha.s o e6n every " a^i m gplto of floods. As showing THE ADVATAGE OF THIS ROTJXB, 6VGn during the week of the late heovy flood, tho mails and 27 passengers were conveyed by boat and vehicles. The route by boat was both safe and an enjoyable ch'unge to thepftssergm in fact 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 tho heavy flood, this Levin route was thj only way open to passengers from Palm6rston to Foxton. Five Foxton residents were driven i"n the Coach from Levin on Tuesday -morning, 16th April, after having previously endeavoured to get over from Shannon. On Monday, the 15th April, the usual dach 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 Company and the Secretary of tho 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), 6s. The Coach leaves Whyte's Hotel, Foxton, every week day at 5.30 a.m., for Levin, catching the * train to Wellington at 8.0 a.m. The 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-day, and • at a cost, of only 17s return. NO TOUT 3OR AGENTS RE» QUIRED. G. F. HAWKINS, BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, AND NOTARY, MAIN-STREET, FOXTON, & THE SQUARE, PALMERSTON NORTH. Money to Lend on Freehold, Leasehold and Chattel Securities. EVERY Wednesday and Thurs day Mr Hawkins may be consuited personally at Foxton, at MR ALF. FRASER'S, Main -street, Foxt-.nn. ON SALE, Sheep Dip, Bricks, Chaff, O.its, Fowl Feod. Grocerio^, Ironmongery, Crockery, Fancy Goods, &c. Any article not in stock procured at shortest possible notice. agentTtorTho Anchor S.S.Co.'s steamerg Kennedy, Charles Edward, Waverley, Aorere, &c, N Z. Times and Mail, Evening Post, Sporting Review, Auckland Weekly News, Christchurch Press and Rejcree, and Standard Insurance Coy., and nobody CAN BEAT THE RATES. Aleo Booth & Macdonald's Flax Machinery. W. B. RHODES.