POSTAL NOTICE.

Southern Cross, Volume 2, Issue 24, 8 September 1894, Page 5

POSTAL NOTICE.

LETTER CARRIERS’ DELIVERY Deliveries by Letter Carriers are made daily Town delivery at 8 a.m. and 1 p.m. Suburban delivery at 9 a.m. MAILS WILL CLOSE AS FOLLOWS: Saturday, Bth September. For the United Kingdom and the Continent of Europe (via Naples), India, China, Japan, Straits Settlements, Aden, Egypt, Tasmania, and the*. Australian Colonies, per s.s. Tarawera, at 1 p.m. Money Orders and Registered Letters up to noon. The English mail of this despatch will be due in London on 24th October. Note—Mails for Raratonga and Tahiti, per s.s. Richmond, close at Auckland on 26th inst., at 9 a.m. Correspondence intended to be forwarded by this opportunity must be specially addressed via Naples. (Signed) J. W. WILKIN, Chief Postmaster.

It has lately been calculated that at least 60 per cent of the earthquake shocks recorded all the world over have occurred during 1 the six colder months of the year. In the Mediterranean and many other districts the proportion during the -cold weather is even greater. January and Febuary seem to be the two months in which mother earth especially delights in shaking up her children. * The German Emperor recently issued an order that no sermon preached before him by a Court Chaplain must exceed fifteen minutes in delivery. Silken fabrics should never be kept folded in white paper. The chloride of lime which is used to bleach the paper causes a chemical change in the silk, and injures the color. The first Sabbath school was instituted in 1787. There are now in the United States 108,939 Sabbath schools, with 8,649,000 scholars. The world has 20,078,595 Sabbath school scholars. In the manufactures of Great Britain alone the power which steam exerts is estimated to be equal to the manual power of 4,000,000,000 of men, or more than double the number of males supposed to inhabit the globe. A heavy fall of snow, extending from Auckland to the Bluff, took place on Friday and Saturdey last. It was the indirect cause of a sad accident in Dunedin on Monday. George Henry, aged 12, was going to school with companions, when a snowball was thrown at a passer-by. The latter, who carried a stick, ran after the boys in a threatening manner. Henry, slipped and fell on the tramline in front of a car. Before the car could be stopped the boy received injuries to the base of the skull, which caused almost instantaneous death. The poor little fellow was of a bright disposition, and was nicknamed “ Sunshine” by his school* mates.