TELEGRAPH NOTICE.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1912, 18 February 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAPH NOTICE.

The Steamer Albien is expected to leave Hokitika at, 5 p.m. on Friday, the 19th instant. Telegrams for the Australian Coloniei or Europe (via Java Cable) will be received at this office for transmission to Hqkitska up till 3 30 p.m. of the 19th 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 as an ordinary letter free of postage, to the address given in the message, or will be forwarded to the nearest Telegraph Station in -——f- ——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 first 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 r in Australia, he will state in instructions v To be telegraphed." In the case of Telegrams for Tasmania and Western Australia, the same can only be *: treated as letfers^.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* i- .-..■■■• =i,,:.,-;.,, t- i John Brat, '--^ '■■ Officer in Charge. Telegraph Office, February 18th, 1875.