Royal J|i|^ Mail COACH TO LEVIN* J.R STAN SELL, ... Proprietor. THE ONLY SERVICE that has kept up continuous intercourse with the outer world. Distance from Foxtou to Levin St&tftn About 14 miles, the road going through the plvitioSt scenery in the district. During the nearly four years' service over the Wirokino Ferry, the mail has been delivered every day, in spite of floods. As showing THK ADVATAOE Otf THIS ROUTE, 6V6n during the week of the lute heßVy flood, the mails and 2? passengers were couveyed by boat and vehicles. The route by boat was both safe and aufnpypblp chMngo'o t hi? parser e^rs in fact like a picnic, and nil who travelled exprn&ibd themselves well pleased with tho arrangements made. On the breakdown of the railway service on Easter Monday, occasioned \>y the heavy flood, this Levin route wtfs tha only way open to passengers from Palmerston to Fo^ton. Five F.oxton. residents wera driven in the V oach from Levin on Tuesday morning, 16th April, after having previously endeavoured to get over from Shannoa. On Monday, the 15th April, the usual Ci 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 Es-. tates 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 Fates, 4s ; Return (available 1 month), 6a. The Coach leave? 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 coatt of only 17s return. * NO TOUTS OR AGENTS RE. QUIRED. G. F. HAWKINS, BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, AND NOTARY, MAW-STREET, FOXTON, & THE SQUARE, FALMERSTON NORTH. Money to Lend on Freehold, Leasehold and Chattel Securities. EVERY .Wednesday and Thursday Mr Hawkins may be con* suited personally at Foxton, at MR ALF. FRASER'S, Main-street, Foxton. Shooting Season. ON SALE— Breaob-loadlng Guns at halfprice Cartridges, loaded by Eley Smokeless Cartridges (Curtis' and Harvey's loading) Powder • Shot Caps Wads Shot Belts Powder Flasks Cartridge-fillers GAPE BARLEY. W. B, RHODES, GROCER, ifSQjmONGER AND GMERAJj STOREKEEPER. AGENT FOR— The Anchor BJB. Co.'s stearaerrßen. Qedyi Charles Eldwtfrd, Waverley, Aorere, &c, N Z. Times and Mail, EfeTtfog Pctt> Sporting Itevitw, Auckland Weekly Ifinos, Christchurch Prett and Sejeree, and Standard Insurance Coy.
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Manawatu Herald, 19 May 1896, Page 2
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