NOTICE OF MAILS. Looal Mails.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 154, 2 July 1868, Page 2

NOTICE OF MAILS. Looal Mails.

For. Appleby, Upper and Lower Moutere, Motueka, and Riwaka — 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 Collingwood, 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 11 o'clock, a.m. For. 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.?0 p.m. ; arrive every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at 11 a.m. For Wakapuaka — Close every Wednesday and Saturday, at 2.30, p.m.; arrive every Wednesday and Saturday, at 11 a.m. For . Westport, Charleston, Brighton, and St. Kilda, per steamer as opportunity offers. For Havelock, Blenheim, and Picton, overland — Close on the 15th and 30th of every month, at fi p.m.; arrive on the 14th and 29th. SYDNEY J. DICK, Chief Postmaster.

The Marlborough Express of the 27th uit.! says that a letter has been received from Mr James Nosworthy, late of Blen- • heim, speaking of the township of Carlisle, Patea, where he is -now commencing business, in very encouraging terms. „ Settlers, he states, despite the late Native disturbance, are arriving fast, and there is every prospect of it becoming a thriving place. The same journal states that Mr Charles Tait, late of Blenheim, has purchased a hundred acres of good arable land at Patea for £150. A fine Rorqual whale, measuring about 60 feet in length, which had been washed ashore in the late south-east gale, has been discovered near the Awatere river, by Messrs Robinson and O'Dwyer, of Spring Creek. The finders, who were out cattle hunting at the time, value their discovery very highly; £200 has been offered for the leviathan. The island of Motutapu, known as Graham's. Island, with its large stock of game,' partridges, pheasants, and quails, and Jhe*ds of deer, is in the market, and is expected to fall into the hands of Sir George Grey. It is said that, a number of adventurers have left Geelong, Victoria, for the Fiji Islands, -taking with them a large quantity of stores &c. It is Btated that the actual cost of the ball given by the Indian Council to the Suitaii, daring bis visit to London, was eleven thousand some hundred pounds — rathgr^tin espensive affair for one night. Some of the items seemed enormous : for instance, Messrs Veitch and Co. charged £85Uifpr providing flowers and shrubs to decorate the robms-^that is for the loan of flowers and shrubs, for they were aU taken away ; tbe next morning. Messrs Crace weie .paid' £2,000 for fittipgs; £400 was the 6iU for champagne, and about £1,200 7 for refreshments;;