POST-OFFICE NOTICES.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 206, 1 September 1870, Page 2

POST-OFFICE NOTICES.

MAILS CLOSE. For Westport, Greymouth, and Hokitika—per s.s. Kennedy, on Saturday, the 3rd instant, at 1 p.m. The next Home Mail via San Francisco will be despatched from Nelson, per contract steamer, on Sunday, September 4. Rates of postage by this route same as by Suez. Note. —The postage of letters and papers for Honolulu and North America, is now the same as for the United Kingdom, viz , 6d. for letters, aiid Id. for papers. 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 Waimea-west —Close every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, at 2.-0 p.m.; arrive every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at 11 a.m. For Appleby, Upper and Lower Moutere, Nga Timote, 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 Tadmor and Wangapeka — Close every Tuesday and Friday, at 2.30 p.m., and arrive every Tuesday and Friday, at 11a.m. Notice. —The following is the rate of postage from this day: —Country letters posted at any office for delivery at any other office in the Colony 2d. per half ounce; for delivery at the office where posted Id. per half ounce. SYDNEY J. DICK, Chief Postmaster.

A Fkightful Accident occurred in the city of Leon (Nicaragua), when several persons were fatally poisoned, through a chemist having by mistake mixed up with his medicine arsenic instead of some other drug. An Artificial Fish has been swimming about in the waters of the Seine for some time, It is made of hides, covered by Indiarubber, on a wooden framework. The submarine navigator remains on his Stomach in the fish, and works the fins with his arms. Tubes communicate with the surface to allow the man-fish to obtain breathing air. A Placaed having been put up at Edinburgh College gate by the official who ■writes out all notices, remind ing students that if they appeared at the funeral of Profsseor Simpson, they should do so "in mourning," they felt insulted .by such au instruction being specially addressed to their class, as if they had not as much common sense as to know that .without prompting, and therefore, |fea|d to. the : placard "Professors may.ay&nd in reefing . jackets." . - -■ ■ '"- •'■ "- Proof Positive. — Wife (wbo-has/been "sitting up") : "Well, this is a.pretty. time to come home. Four o'clock ! " Husband (who has taken nothing but one glass of a curious compound spoken of, by himself, as " Whiskanwarra") : " Wha' you mean, madam, by " Forklock ' ? Unfort'nly for you, madam, it sho' 'appens, curiouslenuff, I parsh'd Big Ben, madam, and heard it strike One (hie) several times, madam I "-—Punch and Judy.