MAIL NOTICE.
Mails for the Australian Colonies, Otago, and Southland, will close at 1.30 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 1. Supplementary mails for the United King dom, Continent of Europe, Asia and Africa, via Suez, Marseilles, and Brindisi, will close at 1.30 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 1. Correspondence must be specially addressed. Mails for the United Kingdom, Continent of Europe, Africa, America, and the West Indies, via San Francisco, will close on Friday, Sept. 2, at 8.45 a.m. Newspapers at 7.30 a.m. Money orders may be obtained and letters registered till 6 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 1. Mails for the Northern provinces of New Zealand will close on Friday, Sept. 2, at 9 a.m.
Late letters for all the above places may be posted up to 9.25 a.m. on Sept. 2. Such letters must bear the usual late fee in postage stamps. Mails for Otago and Southland will close at 11.15 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 3. Mails per brig Hits, for Auckland, will close at 1.45 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 1. Letters must be specially so addressed. Mails close for Sydney direct, per Ama teur, at 4.15 p.m. on Thursday, the Ist Sept. Letters must be specially addressed.
POST-OFFICE NOTICE.
A Late Letter Box has been fixed at the Christchurch Railway Station, in which letters for ship mails, bearing the usual late fee, can be posted until within five minutes of the departure of the train taking the mails. On and after this date, the rate of postage on letters posted at any office in the colony for delivery from any other office in the colony, is twopence the half ounce. If for delivery at the office at which posted, the rate, is one penny per half ounce.
BIRTH.
