TELEGRAPH NOTICE.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1986, 17 May 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAPH NOTICE.

Tbe Steamer Tararua is expected to leave Hokitika at 1 2 p.m. on Tuesday, the 18th instant. Telegrams for the Austra'iah Colonies or Europe (via Java Cable) will be received -at this office for transmission to Melbourne up till 1 p.m. of the 18th instant. 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 be posted as an ordinary, letter free of poßtage.to the address given in the message, of will be forwarded to the nearest Telegraphy Station in"- ■'■•--■'"•' and telegraphed to its destination; the Australian rates being collected from the.recfciver. The sender 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 bei telegraphedfrom thence to its final destination. . In the fii'Bfc case, be, will write in instructions, if to be treated as a letter, " To be posted j V in the latter, "if to be telegraphed oa arrival in Australia, he will state in instructions " To be telegraphed." In the case of Telegrams for Tasmania and Western: Auslralia, the same can only,be treated as letters, and posted as Buch 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 Brat, Officer in Charge. Telegraph Office, May 17th, 1875. : '