Mails closo at the Chief Post Office, Dunedin (subject to any necessary alterations), as under:— For Northern Ports, overland, daily, at 10.30 a.m., C.P.O. Late letters, mail van, North train, at 11 am. Tuesday, January 14. For Northern. Ports, overland to Chnstchurch (to connect with the Corinna at Lyttelton), at 10.30 a.m. Late letters, mail van, North express, at 11 a.m. Wednesday, January 15. For Northern Ports.—Per Manapouri, at 3.20 p.m. Late letters, C.P.0., at 3.30 p.m. Thursday, January 16. For Northern Ports and Australian colonies (ex cept Tasmania).—Per Mararoa, at 1.50 p.m. Late letters, guard's van, Port train, at 2.30 p.m. SAN FPANCISCO MAIL SERVICE. Wednesday, January 22. For Northern Ports, Samoa, Sandwich Islands, United States of America, Canada, South America, West Indies, United Kingdom, and Continent of Europe, at 10 a.m. ~; „ , Money orders at 9.15 a.m. on Wednesday, 22nd. •• Registered correspondence at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, 2lst. Book packets and newspapers at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, 22nd. ... Late letters, bearing an additional single rate of postage (2Jd) as a late fee, can be posted in the mail van attached to the North express, leaving Dunedin railway station at 11 a.m. on the 22nd. The above mail will close at the Branch Post Offices, North Dunedin and South Dunedin-for money orders and registered letters at 5 p.m. on the 2ist, letters at 9.30 a.m., and newspapers at 5 a.m. on the 52nd. At the Port Chalmers office at 8.45 a.m.. on the 22nd: money orders at 4 p.m. and registered letters at 5 p.m. on the 21st. Mails for Tonga, Samoa, and Fiji, per Ovalau, close at Auckland on the 15th, at 4 p.m. Mails for Puyseeur Point and Cromarty close at Invercargill on Thursday, 16th inst., at noon. Mails for Tahiti and Raratonea, per Richmond, close at Auckland on Tuesday, 21stinst., at 5 p.m. .: Mails for New Hebrides close at Sydney on the 22nd inst. (Signed) Edm. Cook. Chief Postmaster. Chief Post Office, January 13,18f6

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