Directory_and_Chronicle_1877 — Page 946

THE

Eastern Extension, Australasia, and China Telegraph Co.,

LIMITED.

In connection with The Eastern Telegraph Company, Limited.

CHAIRMAN JOHN PENDER, Esq., M.P., F.R.G.S.

MANAGING DIRECTOR-COLONEL GLOVER, R.E.

HEAD OFFICE-66, OLD BROAD STREET, LONDON, E.C.

GENERAL MANAGER-BENNETT PELL, Esq., SINGAPORE.

Telegrams are now taxed at so much per single Word, the Sender paying only for the number of Words sent.

The maximum length of a single Word is fixed at 10 letters, any additional letters being counted and charged for as extra words at the rate of ten letters to the word.

TABLE OF RATES FROM HONGKONG.

To SAIGON AND ALL STATIONS IN COCHIN CHINA. To SINGAPORE.

To PENANG

To BOMBAY, CALCUTTA, AND MADRAS.

To ANY STATION IN CEYLON

*To ANY STATION IN EUROPE

PER WORD.

40c.

70c.

90c.

$1.38c.

$1.43e.

$2.00c.

$2.75c.

$2.96c.

90c.

$1.95c.

$1.95c.

$1.95c.

$2.00c. $2.00c.

*To NEW YORK CITY AND BOSTON, U.S.A. *To SAN FRANCISCO.

To ANY STATION IN JAVA

To ADELAIDE AND ALL STATIONS IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA To MELBOURNE, AND ALL STATIONS IN VICTORIA To HOBART TOWN, AND ALL STATIONS IN TASMANIA. To SYDNEY, AND ALL STATIONS IN NEW SOUTH WALES. To BRISBANE, and ALL STATIONS IN QUEENSLAND.

To NEW ZEALAND.-In addition to the Word Rate to Victoria, a charge of $2.10 per ten words and 20 cents for every word in excess of that number. *The above Rates to EUROPE and AMERICA are applicable to Messages from AMOY and SHANGHAI, superscribed "via SUEZ," these Words being signalled by the Great Northern Telegraph Company free of charge.

*

The Company will Register Free of Charge the Names and Addresses of Firms receiving Messages,

so that this information can be given in two Words thus : Hercules, Hongkong.” The name of the Sender of a Message need not necessarily be transmitted; if not sigualled it

will be represented by the concluding word of the Message. Every Message form, however, must be Signed by the Sender or his Representative.

The Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London, and China has at all its stations agreed to receive deposits for payment of messages. These deposits should be sent direct to the Bank. Message Formis, Tariff Sheets, and further Particulars may be had on application at the Company's

Offices, BURD'S LANE, Hongkong.

OFFICE HOURS—Week days 8 A.M. till 7 P.M.; Sundays 8 to 10 AM and 4 to 5 P.M.

J. ENSTON SQUIER, Superintendent.