Victoria - Colonial: 1854 - 1900.
Instructional marking - Urgent (or a variation).
Instructional marking - Urgent (or a variation).
- Australia 1901-1988
- New South Wales
- Overview of NSW
- Telegraph lines
- Telegraph Offices
- Date stamps
- Forms
- Envelopes
- Instructional annotation
- Collect
- Delayed
- Free
- Immediate Urgent
- Reply paid
- Rates
- Stamps
- 1871 Telegraph stamps
- 1885 proposal
- 1893 proposal
- Queensland
- South Australia
- Tasmania
- Victoria
- Western Australia
- International
- Special aspects
In situations where a telegram had to be sent immediately, one of several annotations were used in the Colonies. Sometimes these annotations were made up in a local Telegraph Office.
In Victoria, the annorations included:
- Rush;
- Immediate;
- Urgent;
RUSH
This annotation appears to have been used in only a fewOffices. One such was on a delivery form (VC-DO-6) for a message sent from Melbourne to Richmond on 4 March 1873.
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