TELEGRAPH NOTICE.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1927, 8 March 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAPH NOTICE.

Tbe Steamer Otngo is expected to leave Hokitika at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, the 9th 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 9th 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 le posted as an ordinary letter free of postage, to the address given in the »eesage, or will be forwarded to the nearest Telegraph Station in • ; and telegraphed to its destination j the Australian rates being collected from the receiver, i The sender will note in the instructions on the message bow 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 tbenre to its final destination. In the fixßt; case, lie 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 Wf stern 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.. v John Bull, Officer in Charge. Telegraph Office, March 8, 1875.