TELEGRAPH NOTICE.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1963, 20 April 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAPH NOTICE.

The Steamer Tararna is expected to leave Hokitika at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, tho 20th instant. Telegrams for the Anstra'ian Colonies or Europe (-via Java Cable) will be

received at this office'for transmission to Melbourne uprtill 4 p.m. of the 20 th in st. Telegrams for any ploce in Tictoria, South Australia, New South Wales, and Queensland; will be received at this office for transmission to the ———:— —- and will there be posted as ara ordinary letter free of postage, to the address given in the »essage, 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 ii:a the instructions on the "message howK^wuhes his message dealt with—whether to bo 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 deßtiination. Im the fi/st case,.re will write in instructions; if to be treated bb 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, tha game can only, be treated as letters, and posted aa 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 Bull, : 'Officer in Charge. Telegraph Office, April 20th, 1875.