TELEGRAPH NOTICE.

Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1808, 19 October 1874, Page 2

TELEGRAPH NOTICE.

The Steamer Otago is expected to leave Hokitika at 2' a.m. on Wednesday, the -21st instant; Telegrams for the Australian or "Europe (via Java Cable) will be received at this office for transmission to .'Melbourne;up till noon of .the 21st inst. Telegrams' for 1 *• any place in Victoria, South Australia, New .South Wales, and Quewis- ■ land, will be received at this office for transmission.to.the .' . ■ arid 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 and telegraphed to its destination; the Australian rates being collected from the receiver. The sender will ribtein 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;j?ort where the steamer is bound to, end to -be telegraphed from

thence to its final destination. In the fijpst ;case, he 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 as such from

; the final-poifc 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 Brai, , : . Officer in Charge. Telegraph Office, October 19th, 1874.