The Telegraph Office - called then Cable House - opened as Roebuck Bay on 9 April 1889 to service the third Java-Australia cable. It handled the international telegraphic traffic (mainly from Western Australia with some inter-colonial messages as well) in addition to the inter-colonial Western Australia messages through the far north.

The change of name to Broome was effected in 1892.

NB: see also Tit Bit # 6.

The Broome Cable Station as it is now - as the Court House.

On Friday 29 October 1897, the Perth Daily News reported that " the new telegraph and cable station at Broome having been completed, and it will be opened for business on Monday".

The major use of the Broome Electric Telegraph Station had been for the third Eastern Extension Company's cable from Java.

Cable House - as the Telegraph Office was called - became redundant when the cable was closed in 1905 and the Telegraph Office was merged into the Post Office building. By 1914, Eastern Extension decided to sell Cable House. Advertisements were placed as follows (e.g. Sunday Times (Perth) 12 April 1914):

BROOME! BROOME!

Tenders called closing Noon, 14th instant:
Office of Eastern Extension Telegraph Company, Moir Chambers, for CABLE HOUSE, all Outbuildings, and Free-hold Three Acres comprising Town Lot 99.

Centrally situated main street.

Tender should be accompanied with approved deposit two and a half per cent of amount tendered.
Further particulars may be obtained from the Superintendent.

1. Broome steel circle E.T.O. (SC1 - ETO) for use with the cable from Java in 1889.

Used: 11 July 1902 and 20 July 1911.

Diameter: 21 mm.

Rated: R.

Number in the Census: 40+

2. a rubber oval Post & Telegraph Office date stamp (RO7 - P&TO):

Used: about 1909.

Size:

Rated: RRRR.

3. a rubber oval Post & Telegraph Office date stamp (RO4 - P&TO).

Used: 15 December 1913 to
31 January 1914.

Size: 28 × 43 mm(e = 0.76).

Rated: RRRR.

Number in the Censu: 2.

4. a rubber oval Post & Telegraph Department date stamp (RO7 - P&TD).

Size:

Used: about 1923.

Rated: RRRR.

Derby.

The Post Office opened in Derby in June 1884. The combined Post & Telegraph Office opened on 3 April 1889.

NB: see also Tit Bit # 6.

Derby Post & Telegraph Office about 1940.

Note the train line in the front.

A rubber oval Post & Telegraph Office date stamp (RO2-P&TO) was issued to the Office:

Used: 21 April 1975.

Size: 32 × 52 mm (e = 0.79).

Rated: RRRR.

Number in the Census: 1.

A Post Office called Fitzroy was opened in January 1891. It was upgraded to a Post & Telegraph Office on 1 September 1892. Fifteen years later (in 1907), the office was renamed Fitzroy Crossing.

The office was (possibly) issued with two types of rubber oval date stamp.

This datestamp has not been previously recorded.

In describing Lot 1384 of the February 2013 Prestige Philately Auction . Gary Watson writes "The earliest recorded datestamp is 'FITZROY' of 3 July 1901. So the oval date stamp (to the right here) is either an earlier Fitzroy marking or, more likely, it indicates that the office was originally called Fitzroy River".

1. Fitzroy River (RO6-TO)

Used in violet: 13 June 1898.

Size: ????

Size: ??

Rated: RRRRR.

Number n the Census: 1.

2. Fitzroy (RO6 - P&TO).

Used in blue: 22 June 1901;

Size: 26 × 41 mm (e = 0.77).

Rated: RRRR.

Number in the Census: 1

The usual postal date stamp for Fitzroy Crossing on a pair of 1½d Sturt commemoratives.

Fitzroy Crossing.
5 August 1930.

Halls Creek.

A Post & Telegraph Office was opened on 1 September 1892. A Post Office had previously been opened in March 1891.

A rubber oval Post & Telegraph Office (RO7-P&TO) was issued to the Office:

Used in violet: 12 March 1898 and 4 May 1898.

Size: 25 × 41 mm

Rated: RRRRR.

Number in the Census: 2.

4 May 1898.

Abacus Auctions February 2022 Lot 883.

Lagrange Bay.

A Telegraph Office was opened on 9 April 1889.

Located on the north-eastern end of 80 Mile Beach.

No special date stamp was issued to the Office for use with telegrams.

Early postal date stamps were inscribed LAGRANGE without the BAY.

Wyndham.

Daily News 12 March 1886: "We were officially apprised yesterday that Mr. Price, the new Government Resident at Cambridge Gulf, had selected Wyndham as the name of the new township in that district. Now the name of Wyndham was given to a township on the Kalgan River, not far from the head of Oyster Harbor, many years before Mr. Price was born. This reckless system of nomenclature is sure to give rise to much confusion in the future".

In February 1893, H. W. Birch was promoted to be Post and Telegraph Master at Wyndham.

On 25 May 1896, William Bannerman rushed into the Telegraph Office at Wyndham and shot the operator (Edward Geo. Worth). Bannerman received two years hard labour for manslaughter.

Two date stamps are recorded as having been issued to Wyndham for use with telegraphs:

1. RO2 - P&TO oval rubber date stamp.

Used in red: 28 September 1899.

Size: 27 × 42 mm (e = 0.77).

Rated: RRRRR.

Number in the Census: 1.

2. RO2 - P&TO oval rubber date stamp.

Used : 12 July 1946 in violet.

Size: 31 × 53 mm (e = 0.81).

Rated: RRRR.

Number in the Census: 1.