Dbam-Drinking. — At a late meeting of the Auckland Total Abstinence Society, it was stated that the earn estimated to hare been spent in drink in New Zealand during the year 1868, was £1,131,270, or upwards of £21,755 per week. It was also stated that daring the last seTen years the colony has expended £8,400,000 for intoxicating liquors, &c., and has remitted ont of that sum £2,800,000 abroad for these imports, showing a weekly drain of our capital of about £7700.
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THE TIMARU HERALD, SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 1869.
POST OFFICE NOTICES. Mails for Lake Takapo, Pleasant Point, Opawa, Kaincliffe, Mouutuesaing, and the Mackenzie Country, close at 9 a.m. every Sunday. Mails for Waimate, Waitaki, Otago, and the south, close at 7 a.m., every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Letters for Hokitika and Greymouth are now charged under the Inter-provincial rate, viz., 3d per half-ounce. The Christcliurch and North road mails will in future close at C p. in. every Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday. John W. Wilkin, Postmaster. Post-office, Timaru. April 9, 1869. ABSTRACT OF SALES BY AUCTION. [see advertisements.] This Day— By MrStubbs, at his sale rooms, at noon, mutton. This Day— By Mr Stubbs, in Timaru, at 2 o'clock, tobacco This Day — By Mr Stubbs, at his sale rooms, at 2 p.m., oats, potatoes, flour, &c. This Day — By Mr Stubbs, at the Timaru Stables, at 2.30 p.m., cattle, &c. This Day — By Mr M'Pherson, at Temuka, furniture, drapery, &c. NOTICE. /"\N and after this date the office of the Tisiaru Herald will be at the New Stone Offices, Great South Road, Timaru. Persons having business at the office are requested to take the side entrance until the front offices are completed. Timaru, April 10, 18G9..
