TELEGRAPH NOTICE.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2535, 20 February 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAPH NOTICE.

The Steamer Hero is expected to leave Auckland at 10 a.m: off Wednesday, the 21st inst. Telegrams for the Australian Colpnies, or Europe via Java Cable, will be received afc this office for transmisiien to Auckland up till 9 a.m. of the 21ab inst. Telegrams for any place in Victoria, South Australia, New South Wales, and Queensland, will be received ut this office for transmission to' Auckland, and wi'l there be potted as an ordinary letter free of postage, to the'address given in the message,' or will be forwarded to the neatest Telegraph Station in Victoria, and telegraphed to its destinations the Australian rates being collected from the receiver. The sender will note in the instructions oil the message how he wishes his message dealb with —whether to be posted as a letter at the final pore of departure, in New . Zealnnd or to be forwarded from there to the Telegraph. Station at the port where the steamer is bound to, and to be telegraphed from thenoe to its final destination. '. .. „ ; In the first 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 instructions "To be telegraphed.'! la tke cage 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 New Zealand. Telegrami for Europe per Java Cable will be dealt with as hitherto, the full rates being prepaid by the sender. ■:'">. JoHH Buil, ; Officer in Charge. Telegraph Office, Grahauistown, ' February 20th, 1877..