Wellington Provincial Gazette – 1862 – No. 17

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✨ Mail Service Time Tables

NEW ZEALAND

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE,

(PROVINCE OF WELLINGTON.)

Published by Authority.

All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signatures thereto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.

J. WOODWARD,
Acting Provincial Secretary.

VOL. IX. MONDAY, JUNE 2, 1862. [No. 17]

(From the New Zealand Gazette, 5th May, 1862.)

NEW ZEALAND MAIL SERVICE TIME TABLES

The following Time Table of New Zealand Inter-Colonial and Inter-Provincial Steam Postal Services for two months ending June, 1862, are published for general information.

CROSBIE WARD,
General Post Office, Auckland,
April 30, 1862.

INTER-COLONIAL.

SYDNEY, AUCKLAND, NELSON, AND WELLINGTON.

Ports.	May.	June.
	Vessel No. 1, No. 2	Vessel No. 1, No. 2
Auckland, leave	1st	2nd
Nelson (from Sydney) arrive	3rd	5th
Nelson, leave	6th	6th
Wellington, arrive	7th	6th
... leave	9th	9th
Nelson, arrive	10th	10th
... leave	13th	12th
Sydney, arrive	20th	16th
... leave	20th	20th
Auckland, arrive	23rd	23rd

MELBOURNE AND PORT CHALMERS

(Partly under contract with the Provincial Government of Otago.)

Ports.	May.	June.
Melbourne, leave	13th	17th
Port Chalmers, arrive	17th	21st
... leave	17th	21st
Melbourne, arrive	24th	28th

INTER-PROVINCIAL.

AUCKLAND AND BLUFF HARBOUR, CALLING AT INTERMEDIATE PORTS.

	1	2	3	1	2	3
Southward. Auckland, leave	1st	4th	7th	1st	4th	7th
Manukau, arrive	...	...	7th	...	...	7th
Taranaki	2nd	5th	8th	2nd	5th	8th
Napier	...	6th	...	...	6th	...
Wellington	3rd	7th	9th	3rd	7th	9th
Picton	...	8th	...	...	8th	...
Lyttelton	4th	9th	10th	4th	9th	10th
Pt. Chalmers	5th	10th	11th	5th	10th	11th
Bluff, arrive	6th	12th	12th	6th	12th	12th

| Northward. Bluff, leave | ... | 6th | 13th |
| Pt. Chalmers | 7th | 13th | 14th |
| Lyttelton | 8th | 14th | 15th |
| Wellington | 9th | 15th | 16th |
| Napier | 10th | ... | 17th |
| Manukau, arrive | ... | 19th | ... |
| Auckland, arrive| 11th | 20th | 18th |

No. 1.—This boat will leave Port Chalmers immediately on the arrival of the mail steamer from Melbourne, on any day from the 17th to the 24th of each month, inclusive; and will remain at intermediate ports, as a rule, on her Northward trip, only long enough to receive and deliver mails.

No. 2.—This boat will, as a rule, on her Southward trip remain at intermediate ports only long enough to receive and deliver mails, so as to reach Port Chalmers on the morning of the 17th of each month at latest.

No. 3.—This boat will, if necessary, await the arrival of the mail steamer at Auckland for one day.

VUW Te Waharoa — Wellington Provincial Gazette 1862, No 17

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Crosbie Ward, General Post Office, Auckland

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