RATES OF POSTAGE.--PARCEL POST.- Continued
HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE
487.
RATES OF POSTAGE on Parcels not Exceeding
RATE
DESTINATION.
or
TRANSMISSION
LIMIT OF SIZE. OBSERVATIONS.
PROHIBITED CONTENTS.
1 lb. 2 lbs. 3 lbs. 4 lbs. 5 lbs. 6 lbe. 7 lbs. 8 lbs.0 lbs. 10lbs. 11 lbs.
Via
e
..
 e.
३०.
& c. $ c.
St. Helena
London
1.00
:
...
Salonica
(British
Post Office)
1.60
11
:
:.
:
:
:
Salvador,
2.50
Sarawak (See British North Borneo)
Bervia,
Seychelles,
Digitized by
Am,
Sierra Leone (Ser)
British West Af-
rica)
Spain,
2.001
2.50
Do.
3.95
5.40
Same as Austria.
London.
1.60
2.30;
3.00
Do.
Letters, part of vines.
:
Calcutta.
2.15 2.55 2.05 3.35 3.75
4.15
4.55.
4.95 5.35
5.75) 6.15
Same as Aden.
(The Parcel post; extends only to Bangkok, Cheingma i, Lampang Pack nampoh
Direct.
0.60)
1.20
1.30
:
Raha uy
3.00 Same as Ascension
:
3.00
Gold (uuless manufactured), ostrich feathers, spirits. Letters, tobacco, salt, plants, coin, lottery tickets.
Letters, coin“, gold and silver articles, arms, ammunitions, nitrate of potash, saltpetre,
powder of all kinds.
oogle
Do.,
London.
Ma
1.00
German Packet.
Straits Settlements:-
Wel-
(Malacca, Penang, Province lesley, and Sin- gapore. Parcels are also accepted at sender's risk forJohore, Negri Sembilan, Pah- ang, Perak, Se- langor, in the MalayPeninsula)
Direct.
:
:
:.
:
0.60
1.20
Same as Japan-Naken, Suwan)
2.00,
Limit 63 lbs.
Same as Argen- tine.
2.401
Limit 64 lbs.
Do.
...
:
1.80{
Same as Ascen- sion.
Lonly,
Parcels are not delivered
place which has not a railway sta tion.
Insurance con- flued to parcels] for Malacra, Penug, Pro- Vince Welles- ley. Singapore and Selangor. Un-insure o parcels
may not exceed $20) in value, above that all parcels must be fully insured up to $500, the limit) beyond which parcels are not transmis ai bid by post.
Lettere, counterfeit
coin,
foreign goods bearing the uames or trade mark of a manufactory established in the United Kingdom. Arms, letters, liquids.
Letters, arms, ammunition, air- guns, Spanish maps, missals, rosaries, relies, breviaries, medicine not accommuied by the prescription, wax vestas, saccharine, tobacco, gold and silver jewellery.
Letters, specie, liquids, duit. able articles, dangerous arti- cles likely to injure other Watches or articles parcels of gold and silver must be iusured.
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RATES OF POSTAGE-PARCEL POST.-Continued
2.95
Some 88 Austria
2.50
Do.
.85
Do.
2.00
Do.
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