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POST OFFICE REGULATIONS.
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The Post Office signal station is at Hurst Castle.
The charge for signalling, or for reporting the pass-
ina; of a ship, at Hurst Castle signal station is lOd.,
unci must be prepaid.
The charges made by Lloyd's and others for similar
services, or for giving other information, vary in
amount. They are collected on the delivery of the
telegram containing the report.
In all cases the Post Office charge for the trans-
mission of the telegram (including the reply, if any)
must be prepaid at the ordinary rate for inland
telegrams.
PRIVATE WIRES.
1. The Department undertakes to construct and
afterwards maintain, upon the payment of an annual
rental, a line of private wire between the place of
business or residence of a firm or private individual
and a Postal Telegraph Office, or between two or
more places of business or residences. The advantage
of having a private wire led into a Postal Telegraph
Office is that the renter is placed in direct communi-
cation with the public wires to all parts of the king-
dom or abroad, messages being received from and
sent to the Postal Telegraph Office by wire instead of
■by hand. The renter has also the privilege of
sending messages over his private wire to be for-
warded from the Post Office as ordinary letters, or of
calling a messenger for the express delivery of a
letter or parcel.
2. The Department also undertakes to supply
Greenwich mean time by electric current at either ten
or one o'clock.
3. All applications or communications in regard
to private wires or time signals should be addressed
t to "The Secretary, General Post Office, London, E.C."
FOREIGN TELEGRAMS.
(Regulations founded upon the International
Telegraph Convention.)
1. Foreign telegrams are divided into three classes
-ordinary, code, and cypher. Ordinary telegrams
are those composed of words, figures, and letters con-
veying an intelligible meaning.
2. Code telegrams are those composed of words
the context of which has no intelligible meaning.
Proper names are not allowed in the text of code
telegrams, except in their natural sense. Words of
more than ten letters are not allowed. In code
telegrams only English, French, German, Italian,
Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, and Latin, may be
employed ; but words of any or all of these languages
will be allowed in one telegram.
3. Cypher telegrams are those containing groups
of figures having a secret meaning ; or words not to
be found in a standard dictionary of the language.
I The cypher must be composed exclusively of figures
or exclusively of letters. Cypher telegrams wiitten
I in letters are only accepted for places in Europe and
Xortli America. Telegrams consisting of groups of
letters are not accepted, but groups of letters de-
noting trade marks are allowed in the midst of plain
' r code words, and are then charged for as figures.
^i e par. 8.
4. The address of the receiver must be paid for,
end must not consist of less than the name of the
person and the name of the town. Example — Her-
^;ules, Bombay.
5. The address of the sender is charged for if
transmitted ; it in any case must be written at the
foot of the form.
6. In ordinary European telegrams the length
allowed for a single word is 15 letters; in Extra-
European telegrams, 10 letters — any additional letters
being charged for at the rate of 15 or 10 letters
respectively to the word.
7. Subject to this limit, ordinary compound words
and names written without break are counted as single
words. If joined by a hyphen, or separated by an
apostrophe, they are counted as so many separate-
words. Compound numbers written in words and
without break are also counted as single words subject
to the same limit as to the number of letters. The
name of the office, county, province, and of the country
of destination in the addresses of telegrams are charged
for as one word each, whatever their length. Words
incorrectly spelled, so as to reduce the number of
letters below the maximum, or incorrectly joined to-
gether, contrary to the usage of the language, are
inadmissible.
If the sender of a telegram from a place abroad
improperly joins together English words for the
purpose of reducing the charge, the amount under-
charged is collected from the addressee.
8. Every separate letter or figure is charged for as
one word, and in European telegrams every group of
five figures or letters is counted as one word, larger
groups being counted at the rate of five figures or
letters to a word, plus one word for any excess. Id
Extra-European telegrams groups are counted at the
rate of three to a word, plus one word for any excess.
(6'ee par. 3.) Bars of division, decimal points, and
stops used in the formation of numbers are counted
as figures. Letters added to figures to form ordinal
numbers are counted as figures.
9. In telegrams for large towns the exact address
should be given, and should be in French, or in the
language of the country to which they are to be sent.
When it cannot be given, the profession or calling of
the addressee should be stated, otherwise the tele-
gram will be forwarded only at the risk of the sender.
If there is more than one place of the same name^
the name of the country or state in which the place is-
situated should be added to the address.
10. Corrections, alterations, or additions to the
address can only be made by means of a fresh tele-
gram, which must be paid for at the ordinary rate.
11. If the sender desires to prepay a reply of 10'
words, he must insert before the address of the receiver
" R P," which is charged for as one word ; but if he
desires a reply of more or less than 10 words, he
must insert " R P ," which are charged for as
two words. A less sum than lOd cannot be accepted
in prepayment of a reply. More than 30 words can-
not be prepaid. A voucher for the reply is issued by
the office of delivery, and the persoa receiving it is
entitled to use it within sis weeks from the date of
its issue in payment, or partial payment, as the case
may be, of a telegram to any destination. If the-
addressee do not use the reply form of an Extra-
European telegram, or if the charge for the reply is-
less than the amount prepaid, the cost reply or the
balance, as the case may be, will be returned to the
sender on application to the post office within three,
months. The addressee must, in the former ease^
return the form with his application. In the case of
European telegrams, no allowance is made when the