TELEGRAPH NOTICE.

Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1815, 27 October 1874, Page 2

TELEGRAPH NOTICE.

The Steamer Hero is expected to leave Auckland afc noon on Thursday, the 29th instant. Telegrams for the Austra 1 ian Colonies or Europe (via Java Cable) will be received at this office for transmission to Sydney up till 11 a.m. of the 29th inst. 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 there be posted as an ordinary letter free of postage, to the address given in the aaassage, or will be forwarded to the nearest Telegraph Station in and telegraphed to its destination j the Australian rates being collected from the receiver. The sender will note in the instructions on the message how he wiihes 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 fiVst 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 11 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 port of departure in Naw Zealand.

Telegrams for Europe per Java Cable wilt bo dealt with as hitherto, tho full rates being prepaid by the Bender. John Bull, Officer in Charge. Telegraph Office, October 27th, 1874.

DEATH. Etan.—On October 27th, at the Thames Hospital, Mr Thomas Ryan, native of County Tipperary, Ireland, aged 50 years.