POST-OFFICE NOTICES.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 216, 13 September 1870, Page 2

POST-OFFICE NOTICES.

MAILS CLOSE. For Picton, Wellington, Napier, Canterbury, Otago, and Southland — per s.s. Aireda'e, on arrival. 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 Wakapuaka — Close every Wednesday and Saturday, at 2.30, p.m.; arrive every Wednesday and Saturday, at a.m. Uotice — Payments of Premiums on Government Life Assurance Policies, may be made through any Money Order Office in Great Britain or the Australian Colonies, on the days noted in the Policies ; but the Government reserves to itself the right of requiring payments to be made, in Great Britain three months, and in the Australian Colonies, one month in advance, should it be deemed necessary. SYDNEY J. DICK, Chief Postmaster.

A capital way to prevent the smell of cooking in a house ! Have nothing for breakfast, and warm it up for dinner and supper . He that can please nobody is not so much to be pitied, as he whom nobody can please. "A dandy is a thing that would Be a young lady if he could ! But since he can't, does all he can, To let you know he's not a man." Longfellow, in his beautiful story of "Kavanagb," calls Sunday "the golden clasp which binds together the volume of the week." A pretty idea. A Clergyman, being asked to read a notice for a woman's rights lecture, did so in this wise — " At half-past six o'clock at the school-house a hen "will atempt to crow." "Master at home?" "No, sir, he's out." "Mistress at home?" "No, sir she's out." "Then I'll step in and sit by the fire." « That's out, too, sir."