Royal ?|M§r|s Mail COACH TO LEVIN. J.R. STANSELL, ... Proprietor. rPHE ONLY SERVICE that has J kept up continuous intercourse with the outer world. Distance from Foxton to Levin Station about 14 miles, the road going through the prettiest scenery in the district. During the nearly four years' service over tho Wirokino Ferry, the mail has been delivered every day, in spite of floods. As showing THE ADVATAQE OF THIS ROUTE, 6Ven duriug 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 the passengers in fact like a picnic, and all who travelled expressqd themselves well pleased with the arrangements made. On the breakdown of the railway service on Easter Monday, occasioned by the heavy flood, this Levin route wl»s the only way open to passengers from Palmerston to Foxton, Five Foxton residents were driven in the Coach from Levin on Tuesday morning, lGth April, after having previously endeavoured to get over from ShannonOn Monday, the 15tb 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 Company and the Secretary of the Wellington Freezing Company as passengers, who failed to succeed in crossing at the Shannon Ferry in the uiorniug. Single Fares, 4s ; Eetub^ (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 Wellington at 8.0 a.m. The Coach leaves Levin Hotel at 10.15 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 returu. NO TOUTS OR AGENTS REQUIRED. W. B. RHODES, General Storekeeper. AGENT FOR— Anchor S.S. Company Standard Insurance Co. (risks taken at lowest rates) N.Z. Mail, N.Z. Times Evening Post C antertrary Press and Referee Sporting Review Auckland Weekly News Booth, Macdonald & Co., And for Anything Else You Want. Don't Cough ' . Ov if you Will Cough Take Hamer's Cough Elixir, AND YOU Won't Cough. Price, Is 6d. 1
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Manawatu Herald, 17 July 1897, Page 2
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366Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 Manawatu Herald, 17 July 1897, Page 2
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