THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 245

next Money Orders may be obtained and made
payable at the Post Office
MAJORCA.
(By order) WILLIAM TURNER,
Deputy Postmaster-General.
General Post Office,
Melbourne, 23rd June, 1865.

ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
Regulations and Tariff for transmission of Telegrams
General Post Office,
Wellington, July, 1865.

THE following regulations and conditions and
tariff under which Telegrams are transmitted on
the Telegraph Lines of the General Government, are
published for general information.
J. RICHARDSON,
Postmaster-General.

REGULATIONS AND CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH TELE-
GRAMS MAY BE TRANSMITTED ON THE LINE OF
ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH BELONGING TO THE
GENERAL GOVERNMENT OF NEW ZEALAND.

1st. Form of Telegram.—All ordinary telegrams
must be written in ink, on the printed forms supplied
by the Department for the purpose, and all tele-
grams must be signed by the sender.
Telegraph officers are at liberty to refuse the
transmission of any telegram that does not strictly
comply with these regulations.

2nd. Charges of Telegrams.—Telegrams will be
charged at the tariff-rates published from time to
time by authority of the Postmaster-General. All
ordinary telegrams must be prepaid. When the
sender of a telegram desires it, he may prepay the
reply to his telegram, and the messenger will wait
not longer than five minutes for such prepaid reply.
Should the sender of a telegram desire to have his
telegram repeated back to ensure accuracy, such
repetition will be made at half the charge of the
original telegram.

3rd. Transmission of Telegrams.—Ordinary tele-
grams will be transmitted in the order in which they
are received from the public.
Special Telegrams on the Public Service, and those
admitted as urgent, being telegrams forwarded on
pressing emergencies, such as accidents and cases of
illness, take precedence of ordinary telegrams.

4th. Telegrams in Cypher.—Telegrams may be
transmitted in cypher, which will be counted accord-
ing to the following scale. Separate cyphers count
as one word, groups of five cyphers or fractional
parts of five cyphers count as one word. Groups
exceeding five cyphers are counted at the rate of five
cyphers to the word, any fractional portion remaining
to be counted as a word.

NOTE.—When cyphers are used, the sender is
recommended to pay for the repetition of the
telegram, to ensure accuracy in the transmission.

5th. Delivery of Telegrams.—Telegrams will be
delivered free of charge within the towns in which
the stations are situated, but when telegrams have to
be delivered beyond the boundary of such towns, an
additional charge will be made, to defray the expenses
of porterage or postage as the case may be.

6th. Responsibility.—The Government will not be
held responsible for errors, omissions, or delays in the
transmission of telegrams, nor for the non-transmission
of any telegram, nor for delays in the delivery,
nor for the non-delivery of any telegram, from
whatever causes the same may arise.
All telegrams will be held strictly confidential.

Tariff for Press Telegrams,—being exclusively matter
intended for publication in the newspapers.

Extra copies, 6d. for every hundred words or fractional part
thereof.

Telegraph offices are now open at the Bluff,
Invercargill, Dunedin, Oamaru, Timaru, Christ-
church, Heathcote Valley, and Lyttleton.
The hours of attendance at the Stations are from
9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
ALFRED SHEATH,
General Superintendent and
Telegraphic Engineer.
Christchurch,
11th July, 1865.

Customs Notice.

ALL Articles imported for the public uses of the
Colony, either by the General or Provincial
Governments, shall be admitted to entry at the
various Custom Houses, free of duty.
(By order of the Commissioner of Customs)
S. CARKEEK, Secretary.
Office of Commissioner of Customs,
Wellington, 31st July, 1865.

Customs Notice.

DUTY having been paid upon the following articles
by various merchants and importers in the colony,
under protest, the Commissioner of Customs directs
it to be notified to the several collectors and sub-
collectors that they may refund the duty on all
articles classed under sub-section No. 14. of section
III., of "The New Customs Duties Act, 1864," retain-
ing the duties collected under all other subsections.
The classification of goods under the protests
received at this office since the publication of the last
notice in Gazette No. 18 of this year is as follows, viz. :
Sub-section No. 4.—Metal pipe, axle arms,
washing machines, paper cutting machines,
boring machines, weighing machines, saw
punch machines, lampposts, sofa springs.
Sub-section No. 7.—Hats packed in hat cases,
limejuice, soup and bouilli in tins, preserved
tripe, preserved vegetables, paper collars.
Sub-section No. 14.—Salt, harness, liquid, paper.
(By order of the Commissioner)
S. CARKEEK, Secretary.
Office of Commissioner of Customs,
Wellington, 2nd August, 1865.

Customs Notice.

THE Warehouse in the Port of Hokitika, which
will be known as
LOUISSON AND Co.'S BONDING WAREHOUSE,
and is described below, has been approved and
appointed (provisionally) under clause 11 of "The
Customs Regulation Act, 1858," as a Warehouse
for securing goods under bond, without payment of
duty on first entry thereof:—
The westernmost compartment of an iron building,
owned and occupied by A. Louisson and Company,
and recently erected by them on business site No.
92, and the adjoining portion of site No. 90, and
fronting on Gibson Quay, in the town of Hokitika,
as shown on the maps of the Chief Surveyor of
Canterbury.
J. W. HAMILTON,
Deputy Commissioner.
Custom House, Lyttelton,
28th July, 1865.