Sixpenny Telegrams in British Guiana. 305 
affairs of every-day life. As an instance of this, it may 
be mentioned that a few weeks ago a lady in Georgetown 
advertised in the Argosy for a cook. On the forenoon 
of the day of that paper's publication, the advertiser 
received a telegram, answer prepaid, from an African 
'lady/ applying for the place. The Argosy had been 
taken to Mahaica, more than twenty miles from George- 
town, by the morning train, and, cookey, who was 
staying there, had seen it and wired in for the vacancy. 
It is so with Indian and Chinese immigrants, with the 
Portuguese, and all sorts and conditions of men and 
women. It often happens, of course, that the senders do 
not confine their messages to ten words, while those who 
used the wires before the introduction of cheap telegrams 
now use them all the oftener : which fa6ls, added to the 
vast increase of customers, account for the substantial 
improvement in receipts which has attended the liberal 
policy adopted by the colony in the institution of the six- 
penny rate. 
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