HONGKONG POSIAL GUIDE.-Prohibited Contests.
America, peach-stocks and peach stones from any country. Importers of fruits bearing plants, and firearms must present a permit from the Colonial Government.
79.--Letters, arms, ammunition.
80.-Letters, articles of gold and silver, jewellery, &c., corrosive fluids.
81.-Letters, arms, ammunition, aniline colours, publications offensive to good manners or opposed to the Mussulman religion. (See also page 556, para. 55.)
82.—Same as United States.
83.-Letters, tobacco, manufactured or unmanufactured, living plants or parts of plants (except bulbs or seeds) unless accompanied by a proper certificate that the district from which they are sent is free from phylloxera, either sporadic or epidemic; unstamped playing cards, manu- scripts (except bound commercial books or the minutes of a Society or Company, or invoices relating to the contents of the parcel; foreign products bearing trade marks in contravention of existing laws; books contravening the Portuguese copy- right laws; articles bearing the Red Cross sign, unless addressed to the Red Cross Society at Lisbon; medicine (unless ac- companied by the prescription); coin; unobaterated postage or other stamps or stamped paper; bank notes, promissory notes and all orders for the payment of money to bearer can only be sent in insured parcels. A parcel may not consist of two or more packages tied together.
84.—Same as l'ortugal, with the excep- tion of tobacco, which is not prohibited.
85.-Same as Cape Colony. (2z)
Southern Rhodesia: Plants are subject to special conditions and can only be imported by special permission of the Secretary for Agriculture, Salisbury, Rhodesia.
North Eastern Rhodesia. Seeds and plants must be accompanied by a certificate of origin.
86.-Letters; ikons (religious images or pictures), photographs and reproductions of works representing scenes from foreign history; silver coins not current In Roumania; bronze and nickel coins (except antique coins); foreign gold or silver coins intended for purposes of ornament; soiled paper; cotton waste; coffee prepared with colouring matter; canes of the vine; arms (unless accompanied by a permit for their transit through Austria, to be obtained from the "Bezerks hauptmaunschaft" of the district in which the Austrian Customs Office of entry is situated), and ammunition; colouring matter an essences used for the manufacture or adulteration of wine or brandy; Saccharine (unless for authorised chemists); patent medicines
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and pharmaceutical perparations (except to authorised institutions); trees and plants of all kinds (uness accompanied by a phylloxera certificate); food and meat (unless accompanied by a sanitary certifi- cate countersigned by a Roumanian Consul); tobacco in any form, cigarette papers, playing cards, salt, and mineral waters are only admitted by special permission.
87.-Letters, rags and old clothes as merchandise and unmanufactured animal products (unless accompanied by a certifi- cate of disinfection), plants (unless accom- panied by a phylloxera certificate), all parts of vine, objects from which liquid or fat exudes, Russian coins of small value, gold or silver articles not up to the proper standard, prize coupons, swordsticks, armis (except by special permission to be obtain- ed by the addressee), playing cards, labels, unauthorised medicines; swine's flesh, and all its products, even when not dressed or made up, sausages made of pork (if other than pork it should be stated on the Customs Declaration of what kind of meat they are made); and to Finland, brandy, poisons, potatoes, alcoholic varnish, church effects.
88.-Letters, arms, except revolvers of calibre less than .44, air-guns, nitrate of potash, saltpetre, apparatus for coining money.
89.-Letters, grape vines or vine cuttings, spirits not perfumed or medicinal; tobacco, manufactured or unmanufactured.
90.-Letters, parts of vine.
Same as France, except tobacco, which may be sent in any quantity. Arms and ammunition can only be imported by special permission of the local authorities.
92.-Letters, counterfeit coin, worn clothing, &c., if intended for sale. Foreign goods bearing the name or trademark, or an imitation of the name or trademark, of a manufactory established in the United Kingdom.
93.-Letters, arms, opium.
94.--Poisons(except under special licence) 95.-Letters, coins, firearms and ammuni- tion, air-guns, reproductions of Spanish maps or plans, missals, breviaries, rosaries, relics, &c., pharmaceutical preparations or patent medicines of unknown composition of which the prescription has not been published, wax vestas and all kinds of matches, substances containing saccharin. unmanufactured tobacco seed and juice, plants unless accompanied by a phylloxera certificate, to which, if in English, a French or Spanish version should be appended, gold, silver, jewellery, playing cards, &c. A parcel may not consist of two or more packages tied together. As
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