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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE.-PROHIBITED CONTENTS.
patent medicines, firearms, rags, disused and filthy clothing and bedding. Books, magazines, and newspapers should not be sent by Parcel Post.
13.--Same as Austria-Hungary. (7)
14. Letters; arms and ammunition; parts of vine (except grapes without leaves); plants; medicine (unless accom- panied by the prescription); coin; un- obliterated postage or other stamps or stamped paper bank notes, promissory notes and all orders for the payment of money to bearer.
15. False money; manufactured articles bearing a false trade description; seeds and living or dried plants, originating in India, Ceylon, Straits Settlements, the Dutch East Indies, Mauritius, Zanzibar, Natal, German East Africa and Central American States can only be imported if a special permit be obtained from the Governor. All parcels containing seeds or plants should be accompanied by do- cumentary evidence (such as certificates of origin) that the contents do not come from any of the countries mentioned.
16. - Spirits;opium, genjo, charas, bhang, cannabis indica; parts of dutiable articles (except by permission of the Governor).
17.-Letters; tobacco packed with other goods; tobacco sweetened with the leaves of trees or plants other than the tobacco plant; saccharine, and other substances of à like nature or use, such as saxin, &c., or mixtures of the same; rags, shoddy, dis- used clothing and bedding; coin or bullion (unless clearly intended for purposes of ornament).
18.-Letters; tobacco; opium and foreign
coin.
19.-Same as Straits Settlements. (96) 20.-Letters; and ammunition of war; worn clothes and boots intended for sale ; foreign copper or silver coins; geranium oil; cotton oil and essence of vinegar except for industrial purposes; essence of wine; alcohol from plums: adulterated beeswax; meat of all kinds (unless accom- panied by a sanitary certificate of origin,; trees, shrubs, plants (unless accompanied by a phylloxera certificate; vegetables, flowers, leaves, rools, cuttings of trees, grapes, parts of vine, tools used in vine- culture, manures, soiled paper of any kind or old printed papers. The importation of wax candles, fishing nets, saccharine, treacle, medicines and poisonous drugs is subject to special conditions.
21.-Letters, oleomargarine, butterine, and similar substitutes for butter.
22.—Letters; specie, bullion, gold-dust, nuggets, ostrich feathers, except when made up into stoles, boas, hats, &c.; tobacco stalks; essences of tobacco, tea,
coffee or chicory; part of the vine, grapes; coffee plants or parts of coffee plants; coniferous plants; eucalyptus plants; stone fruit trees unless accompanied by a sworn declaration that they have not come from the United States or Canada; peach stocks and peach stones from any country. In addition to the above, eau de cologne is prohibited into Basutoland. Importers of fire-arms must present a permit from the colonial authorities.
23.—Same as Portugal (with the excep tion of tobacco, which is not prohibited).
24. Current coin, counterfeit money; arms and ammunition by way of mer- chandise, except by licence or authority of the Governor. Parts sent separately of articles liable to Customs duty, ganja, bhang.
25.-Letters, arms and implements of war, articles injurious to health. Plants are accepted at sender's risk.
26.---Letters, notes, explosive or inflam- mable material, opium, morphia, arms and ammunition.
27.—Letters, opiumi, morphia, morphine and cocaine.
25.- Letters, arms, ammunition.
29.-Same as France, except as regards tobacco, of which the importation is permitted.
30.-Letters, arms, ammunition, precious metals, whether in form of spiece or bullion, tobacco.
31.-Letters;tobacco seeds: dead animals and insects unless thoroughly dried; fruits and vegetables liable to early decomposi-
tion.
32.-Hashish, locust eggs, salt (other than table or rock salt); silver and copper coins and pre-Victorian gold coins.
33.–Arms and ammunition can only be imported by special permission of the local authorities.
34.-Letters, arms and ammunition, except with consent of the Government. 35.-Letters; imitations of money, notes, stamps, or bills; potatoes from North America. Entrails of ruminants or pigs unless entirely dried in the air, or salted, horus or hoofs unless entirely dried in the air, wools rinsed or only back washed, hay, straw, manure, milk, margarine, oleo- margarine, margarine, cheese and butter are subject to restrictions required by the law.
36. Letters, daggers, sword-sticks, sword-umbrellas, percussion caps and fire-arms.
37.-Letters, opium, arms, salt, coffee, plants and seeds.
38.--Letters; arms and ammunition, sugar-cane brandy or its combinations; articles of food containing ingredients