THE NEW TELEGRAPH RATES-

Auckland Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 155, 3 July 1896, Page 2

THE NEW TELEGRAPH RATES-

(To theEditar.) '■" ■ Sra,—A telegram. containing 59 words, address included, was charged 2i H ordinary message, la this amount correct according to the reduced rate! ( Ji*>i had this message been divided into fi»B singlo messages, even including the foar extra addresses and signatures, i« would have gone for leas money. The abort* w« under the delayed code would hare com 1* 3d instead of 2» 9d under the preMnJ reduced rates. Ib is generally understood there i«r a reduced rake for long tneeeiw* The delayed telegram was a great boon, especially In country districts ; la ww« for 6d is fat preferable to the 12 w«rdi for 6d, except within telegraph' deliveries* m 18 words now cost Is, according tp Mm rates for the above wire. If the delafM code waa reinstated, it WOtild 0 IM. country dislricU on an equal footing tfiW those withiiD telegraph deliverioe*—l •»• etc., «oidmi»».

11 T.M." asks: •• Can atty of yo«r rta^N tell me whab year the ship Aplas or AppelM arrived ia Auckland with immigrants.

"Merino" wanM to know what firm iB England manufactures the largest amonel of hosiery.

To the Editor : Sir,-I wi»n to draw **>« attsantion of the public to tbe alleged ill« treatment of my little girl at the Patumahoe School by her fellow-scholars,, at■ «• ported in the « Weekly News " eftbe2o n mat. The child wbb so injured by we«• treatment she received from.'her.ectiooi' mate* that she vm for some time attar completely unable to assist herself in soyway, and at the present time can only mow about slightly, and has *o be eon«Unuf attended to. An inquiry was held by «J J. H. Wright, a member of the Bo.rd oj Education, at the Patumahoe BiWOI,,■"• he reported to Ihe Board on Jane i/wi that the charges were hoi proven, w »• decision of the Patumahoo School Co**'*tee was upheld. Sir, the inquiry wai rnadj in my absence, and I only receded.a vernai notice that) ah inquiry wonld l»l"aW.'"™ the exacO timo was not Mentioned, « * »■• unable to be pra«eai to bring forward ww erideace neceitary to prove my c«e. •* M Burprißed that a gentlemao I|M. "• Wrighb weold come to a de*. Won, w flaeh a question before both sid»* »;■ eiven their veriion of the unfor **&• affair. The fellowlne is a copy of the C«r" ficate received from the Auckland Hoil»""| -••Auckland Hospital, June 22id,, 1»»"| This is to certify that Gertrude Maud uj» gow w»8 an in patient is thii Ho«pi«'»"" March 6th to April 2nd, that she ,**« ■"'. fering frsm paraly»i», the result of in]""'. received.-O: Pelrck Baldwin, ****** Superintendent."—lam, etc., K..G*"*lo""!