TELEGRAPH NOTICE.

Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1786, 23 September 1874, Page 2

TELEGRAPH NOTICE.

The Steamer Hero is expected to leave Auckland at 1 p.m. on 'Jhuwday, the 24th instant. Telegrams for the Austrian Colonies or Europe (via Java Cable) will be received at this offico for transmission to Sydney up till 11.40 a.m. of the 24th instant. Telegrams for any place in Tictoria, South Australia, New South Wales, and Queensland, will be received at this office for transmission to the ■ —; and will thore 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 :— and telegraphed to its destination; the Australian rates being collected from the receiver. The lender will note in the instructions oh 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 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 sis bucla 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, September 22nd, 1874.