TELEGRAPH NOTICE.

Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1767, 1 September 1874, Page 2

TELEGRAPH NOTICE.

The Steamer Albion is expected to leave Hokitika at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, the 2nd instant. Telegrams for the Australian Colonicß or Europe (via Java Cable) Trill be received at this office for transmission to Melbourne up till 9 a.m. of the 2nd initant. Telegrams for any place in Tictoria, South Australia, New South Wales, and Queensland, will be rtceiyed at this office for transmission to the ■ and will there be posted as an ordinary letter free of postage, to the address given in the »Msage, or trill be forwarded to the nearest Telegraph Station in and telegraphed to its destination; the Australian rates being collected from the receiver. The sender will note in the instructions on the message how he withes his message dealt with—whether to be posted as a letter at the final port of departure in New Zealand or to be forwarded from there to the Telegraph Station at the port where the steamer is bound to, and to be telegraphed from thence to its final destination. In the fii'st case, be will write in instructions, if to be treated as a letter, " To be posted;" in the latter, if to be telegraphed on arrival in Australia, he will state in instructions " To be telegraphed." In the case of Telegramß for Tasmania and Western Australia,' the same can only be treated as letters, and posted as such from the final port of departure in New Zealand. Ttlegrams for Europe per Java Gable will be dealt with aa hitherto, the full rates being prepaid by the sender* John Brat, Officer in Charge. Telegraph Office/September Ist, 1874.