INDEX 



351 



Telegraph — continued 



Without wires, 274-277, 297, 

 298 



War, 300-303 

 Telephones : 



A necessity, 329 



Exchanges, 330, 333 



Cost, 330, 333 



Rural districts, 331 



Postal rights, 332 



Parish councils, 334 



Postal wires, 334, 335 



Swedish system, 336 



Number of messages, 337 

 (See also Appendix B.) 

 Teutonic's mail, 191 

 ' The Mrs. Blank,' 210, 211 

 Thompson, Col. Kaffles, 301 

 Tichbortie Claimant, 96 

 Tilley, Sir J.,K.C.B.,18, 36, 37 

 Titchbourne, Chidiock, 96 

 Todd, A., 4 

 Tolls, 161 



Tomtits in letter-box, 320 

 Trains in snowdrifts, 45, 58 

 Tram-roads, 147, 148 

 Travelling post-office in snow, 58 

 Trollope, A., 211 

 Turner, Mr., 109, 110 

 Turnpikes, 80, 161 

 Turpin, K, 95 



U. 



Union Steamship Company, 110, 



111 

 Unpaid postage a heavy tax, 9 



V. 



Viaduct at Highgate, 165 

 Victories, news of, 238 

 ViUiers, Rt. Hon. C._ P., M.P., 64 

 Vinegar an antiseptic, 19, 103 

 Viner, Sir R., 2-5 

 Volunteers from P.O. in Egypt. 

 302 



W. 



Walpole, Sir R., anecdote of, 321, 



322 

 War-telegraphs, 300-303 

 Warning, a friendly, 49 

 Waterford, Lady, 153, 167, 168 

 Waterside Inn (Barton), 66 

 Watkins, Capt., 130, 131 

 Webb (mail-guard), 47 

 Webber, Major-Gen., R.E.,C.B., 



331, 333, and Appendix B 

 Wetherby, 12, 223, 224 

 Wheat, J., 64 

 Wheatsheaf, the, 221, 222 

 White, H., 14 

 Willatt family, 204, 205 

 Williams, J., 36 

 Williams, Mr., 103 

 Willock, R. P., 206, 207 

 Willoughby-Smith, Mr., 274 

 Wolfif, Dr., 169 

 Wray, J., 70 

 Wreaks, Miss, 202. 203 



Y. 



Yates, Edmund, 106, 281, 282 



Z. 



Zareba, a, 302, 303 



THE END. 



BILLING AND SONS, PRINTERS, GUILDFORD. 



