POST-OFFICE NOTICES.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 247, 19 October 1870, Page 2

POST-OFFICE NOTICES.

. MAILS CLOSE. . For Picton, Wellington, Napier, Canterbury, Otago, and Southland — per s.s. Phoebe, on .arrival.. For, i Greymouth, Hokitika and the Australian ports — per s.s. Alhambra, on Friday, the 21st instant. . ..... The nest Mail will be dispatched from Nelson for- the United Kingdom, via Suez, via Marseilles, and via Brindisi (only specially addressed letters), for France, the travelling Post between Marseilles and Lyons, Gibraltar, Malta, the. British, French, . and Austrian Post Offices at. Alexandria, Aden, Point de Galle, the 1 Genjeral. Post "Offices in India, viz : — Bombay,' Madras and Calcutta ; Penang, Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Yokohama, per s.s Alhambra, on Friday, the 21st instant.

For Stoke, Richmond, Hope, Spring Grove, Wakefield, and Foxhill— Close at Chief Post Office T daily at 2.30, p.m.; arrive at Chief Post Office daily, at 11 o'clock, a.tn. 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 Wakapuaka — Close every Wednesday and Saturday, at 2.30, p.m. ; arrive every Wednesday and Saturday, at a.m. 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, and Id. for papers. 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.