TELEGRAPH NOTICE.

Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1776, 11 September 1874, Page 2

TELEGRAPH NOTICE.

The Steamer Alhambra is expected to leave the Bluff at 11 a.m. on Saturday, the 12th instant. Telegrams for the Australian . Colonies or Europe (via Java Cable) will be received at this office for transmission to Melbourne up till 9 a.m. of the 12th instant.

Telegrams for a«y place in Tictoria, South Australia, New South Wales, and Queensland, will be rjceived at this office for transmission to the ■ :• —— and will there be posted ns an ordinary letter free of postage, to the address given in the ncssage, or will 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 wishes 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 fi/st case, be will write in instructions, • if to be treated as a letter, "To be posted;" - „ in the latter, if to bo telegraphed on arrival in Australia, he will state in instructions " To be telegraphed." In the case of Telegrams 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. Telegrams for Europe per Java Cable will be dealt with, as hitherto, the full rates being prepaid by the sender. John Brat, Officer in Charge. Telegraph Office, September 10th, 1874.