Mails will Close as Under : For Thames, this day, at 5.30 p.m. and to morrow, atsp.m. and 5.30 p.m. For Coromandel, per Durham, to-morrow, at 5 p.m.; and.per Argyle, on Saturday next, at 8 a.m. For Australian Colonies, per Hero, to-morrow, at 11 a.m. X For money orders, registered letters, and newspapers, at 10 a.m. Late letters for Sydney and Melboarne, till 11.20 a.m. For Australian Colonies, per City of New York, immediately after her arrival. For Whitiangi, Tauranga, and Opotiki, per Rowena, to-morrow, at 1 p.m. For Waiwera, Mahurangi, Matakana, Waipu, Marigapai. Wangarei, and Mangapai, per Annie Milbank, on Saturday next, at 10 a.m. For Russell, Kawakawa, Wangaroa, and Mon gonui, per lona, on Monday next, at _ p.m. For Taranaki and Southern Provinces, per Taranaki, on Monday next, at 7 p.m. For Tauranga, Gisborne,' Napier,, and Southern Provinces, per Wanaka, immediately after the arrival of tbe s.s. City of New York from Honolulu. Per s.s. Australia, on Tuesday, Bth January, 1878, as follows:- For- Sandwich Inlands, United States of America, Canada, British Columbia, Central and South America, and British and Foreign West Indies, at 3 p.m. For United Kingdom and Continent of Europe, at 3 p.m. For money orders, registered letters, and newspapers, at 1.30 p.m. Late letters, bearing an extra fee of 6d, in addition to the postage, will be received by the mail agent on board the steamer up to the time of sailing. r ~: N.B.—Tuesday next, 25th instant, being a postal holiday, the mails usually desoatched on that day will be closed the previous evening, at 7 o'clock, S. B. BISS. Chief Postmaster.
MARRIAGE.
CRAWFORD—MOORE.—On 27th December, at St. James' Church, by the Rev. W. Evans, James Crawford, Mount Eden, to Margaret Caroline Moore, of Auckland, and late of Belfast, Ireland.
DEATH.
