TELEGRAPH NOTICE.

Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1841, 26 November 1874, Page 2

TELEGRAPH NOTICE.

The Steamer Albion is expected to leave Hokitika at noon on Saturday, the 28th infant. Telegrams for the Austra ian , Colonies or Europe (via Java Cable) will be received at this office for transmission to Melbourne up till 10 a.m. of the 28th inst. Telegrams for any place in Victoria, South Australia, New South Wales, and Queensland, will be received at this office for transmission to the and will there be posted aa an ordinary letter free of postage, to the address given in the neesage, or will be forwarded to the nearest Telegraph Station in ; and telegraphed to its destination j the Australian rates being collected from the receiver. The sender will note in the instructions on the message how he wisheß his message dealt —whether to be posted as a letter at the final port of departure in New Zealand or to be forwarded from there to the Tele- . graph Station at the port where the steamer is bound to, and to be telegraphed from thence to its final destination. In the first case, he 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 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, November 26th, 1874.