TELEGRAPH NOTICE.

Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1842, 27 November 1874, Page 2

TELEGRAPH NOTICE.

The Steamer Albion is expected to leave Hokitika at noon on Saturday, the 28th infant. Telegrams for the Ausrraian Colonies or Europe (via Java Cable) will be received at this office for transmission to Melbourne up till 10 a.m. of" t.he2B<hiT?B*t. Telegrams for any pine* in Victoria, South Australia. New South Wales, and Queensland, will be received 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 message, or will be forwarded to the nearest Telegraph Stat;on in — and telegraphed to its destination ; the Australian rates being collated 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 poi t 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* tbenre to its final destination. In the fii-st case, 1-q 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, tbe 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 Cable will be dealt with as hitherto, the full rates being prepaid by the sender. Johk Bttii, c Officer in Charge. Telegraph Office, November 26th, 1874.