General characteristics:
| Heading and notes: | NSW Stores number but no Form number. Heading is NEW SOUTH WALES ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COLONIAL AND INTERCOLONIAL LINES. |
| Message area: | Boxes numbered to 35. |
| Reverse side: | Boxes continuing the numbering to 100 or to 110. No Regulations. |
| Colours (text & form): | Orange on yellow. |
| Size of form overall: | 225 × 187 mm. |
| Size of datestamp box: | 20 × 34 mm. |
Distinctive characteristics of the form:
- distance from top ("Issued Form") to the dividing line is 34 mm;
- Crest is 8 × 15 mm;
- there are no Regulations printed below the last line of boxes;
- the main distinctions between varieties are:
9A: boxes are numbered on both left and right sides;
9B: boxes are numbered on the right side only;
9C: reference to Railway Offices has been added at the base.
Bombala to Hunter Street, Sydney CBD.
23 July 1890.
Characteristics:
Use of the rare RO7-ETO date stamp for the Electric Telegraph Office.
See a more complete description for this format below;
Sydney to Armidale
11 April 1892.
A very rare oval Electric Telegraph date stamp for Armidale.
Characteristics:
- text at the base of "TELEGRAM from ..." box is in normal font;
- message boxes are numbered on both sides;
- the Stock number is "t. 637" - so it is missing the "S";
- Stock number (637) is repeated on the reverse in the top left corner above the line and is left justified;
- Printed Regulations on reverse have been removed (see below).
Use of the rare RO7-ETO date stamp for the Electric Telegraph Office.
Shows numbering on both sides to 100 and no regulations.
Form NC-DO-9C (not shown here).
A variation of this form was introduced possibly during the 1880s. Little is known of the format. Hancock has a front page (p. 166) and part of another form is known used for a message from Melbourne to Binalong on 1 February 1901.
The text at the bottom of the form reads:
"Public Telegrams are only accepted at Railway Telegraph Offices subject to possible delay. Vide Regulations"./p>
Details of use and rarity.
| Form sub-number |
Schedule number | Earliest recorded date | Rarity rating |
| DO-9A | Stores number t. 637 on the front and St. 637 reverse. |
23 July 1890 at Sydney Electric Telegraph Office. | RRR |
| DO-9B | Stores number St. 637 on front only. | 29 November 1894 at Windsor. | RR |
| DO-9C | None. | 13 February 1894 at Lindfield (H p.166) |
RR |