MS - Delayed interruption to line

Australia & Colonies - Instructional markings:
Delayed Due to Interruption to Line - manuscript.

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Special aspects

The special instructional marking to show that a telegraphic message had been delayed by a problem with a line was often - in the early days - applied in manuscript by handwriting an annotation to that effect.

Examples of such annotations are provided below for:

New South Wales;
Victoria.

New South Wales

NI-DO-1.

Barmedman to Wagga Wagga.
20 March 1906.

Message lodged at 10:45 am and received at 3:35 pm.

Ms "Delayed interruption lines" at base.

Victoria.

VC-DO-8B.

Melbourne to Richmond.
28 October 1879.

Message lodged at 4:20 pm and received at 5:15 pm. As no date of lodgement is recorded, the delay was either brief or about 25 hours.

Has mss Delayed by Interrupton to line.