NOTICE OF MAILS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 101, 30 April 1868, Page 2

NOTICE OF MAILS.

Local Mails.

For Appleby, Upper and Lower Montere, Motueka, and Eiwaka — Close every Monday and Thursday, at 8.30, a.m.; arrive every Tuesday and Friday, at 4 p.m. Also, for Motueka, per steamer as opportunity offers. For Oollingwood, Motupipi, Takaka, and Slateford — By every opportunity, per steamer or sailing boat.

For Stoke, Richmond, Hope, Spring Grove, Wakefield, and Foxhill— Close at Chief Post Office daily at 2.30, p.m. ; arrive at Chief Post Office daily, at ] I o'clock, a.m.

F«r Tadmor — Close every Friday, at 2.30, p.m.; arrive every Monday, at 11 a.m. For Waimea-west — Close every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, at 2.- J 0 p.m. ; arrive every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at li a.ni. For Wakapuaka — Close every Wednesday and Saturday, at 2.30, p.m.; arrive every Wednes day and Saturday, at It a.m.

SYDNEY J. DICK,

Chief Po9t master,

An abstract return of the liabilities and assets of the Bat.k of N.Z. at the close of December quarter shows its highly healthy and prosueious condition. The assets wre £2,576,018 against £1,663.416 liabilities*. The rate of lust dividend was 17 per cent., amounting to £42.500, and the reserv. d pr »fits an.ounfr to £208.618.

Labartw's fonch was stopped about, three miles from Gimpie, Queensland, wheu a«ceiulin» '; hill, by ihive armed tn< n, w'io came out of the l>usb on /oot. Tee w«re 13 piisseu^ers in the each, all unarmed. Ttie robbers took £200 in notes, 30 sovereigns, and 15 ounces of gold. The faces of the bushrangers were concealed by han'ikert'hinfs, and they seemed new at the lousiness, as the searcher was very nervous **n I trembled a good deal, and a quantity < f cash escaped his notice. On leaving the cotch they went down to the river, where it is supposed they had horses,

Melbourne capitalists have invested £80,000 in Hobson's Bay Railway shares-

The acting Governor or South Australia has received several threatening letters from persons signing themselves Fenians.

The following appears in the London Times of the 28th of January last : — The Chancellor of the Exchequer begs to acknowledge the receipt of £5 from X.T.Z., .New Zealand, on account of Income Tax not charged in England.

A letter says: — The building of the Exhibition in the Champ de Mars has been sold for 1,0*0,000 f. It cost, and ■was worth, ll ? 0OO,OOOf. For the WatDepartment it woul.l have been a precious acquisition, and might be had by it without costing anything, for the portion of the profits accruing to the State would have sufficed to cover the million. It would not have been difficult in this vast and fireproof enclosure to collect all the magazinesof the Minister of War in Paris, ■which are now dispersed at various distances from each other, and to which, from the insufficiency, additions have to be made. Some years back I remember the bakehouse for the army on the Quay de Billy, was burnt dowu ; with a building like that of the Exhibition such a calamity might have been avoided. The grand gallery, 35 metres wide, 25 high, and 1,600 long, might have been made into a vast rez de chaussee or ground door, which would have served as a place of exercise, and where troops might be lodged on certain occasions ; and, in front of the military school, there would still have remained mote than 25 acres of ground for drilling in the open air. The vanity of two or three great military flhiefo called for its demolition, and the Government, I believe, unwillingly yielled.