POSTAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE HOLIDAYS.

Thames Star, Volume XVII, Issue 5278, 17 December 1885, Page 2

POSTAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE HOLIDAYS.

Arrangements will be made in this District for Christmas Day, Boxing Day, and New Year's Day as follows:— Postal Branch.—Christmas Day and New Year's D*y Post Offices will be closed. Mais usually despatched on those days will be made up the previous evenings at 7 o'clock On evenings of 24th and 31st inst., a delivery of town letters will be made over, the counter from 7 to 8 o'clock as usual. On Boxing Day (26th inst), Post Offices will he open in all branches from 9 to 10 a.m., and mails received and dc spatched as usual An early delivery by lettercarrrier will be made commencing at 8 a.m. On Christmas Day and New Year's Day the private box lobbies will be open from 9 to 10 a.m., and 7to 8 p.m., and on Boxing Day during usuai hoars. "

Tbus«rami Branch.—On Christmas Day, Boxing Day, and New Year's J)ay offices which open ti the public on Sundays and holidays, will open from 9 - to 10 a.m., and 7 to 8 p.m., instead of the usual Sunday hours. On Boxinjr Day, those offices •which are closed to the public on Sundays and holidays will be open from 9 to 10 a.m.

Bismarck has fulminated an order to his own people which might with advantage be imposed upon the whole world that write their names. He demands that henceforth everyone shall sign bis name in such a clear, distinct, and legible way that it shall be readable at a glance, and not have to be studied "as if there was something valuable to be found in it when discovered."

Economy in the. Household.~lt it true economy to take into acoount "little things "—little items of expenditure. Conturners of Cocoa will be able to effect a saving by using Cadbury'* Cocoa Es««nce which, for perfeoiion of quality, is Catakbh of the Bladder.—Stinging irritation, inflammation, all Kidney and simitar Complaints, cured by " Buchu-paiba." At druggists. Keinptkorno, Prosser & Co., Agent*, Auckland. «. tap^^^^^^»^^|Mandbrain waste, nothing