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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE.-OBSERVATIONS.-Prohibited ContentsS.
Matam, M'Bangol, M'Bour, Xianing, Nioro Rip, Salde, Senoudobou, Sine. Toul and Velingara hable to delivery chätze. Parcels accepted. for all places, but must be claimed at places mentioned above. Up. per Senegal and Niger (French Soudan:.-Cuinsured parects only. Service extends to Arzarin, Rafoulabe, Bamako, Bamako-Koulouha,, Bandiagara, Banfora, Bobo-Dioulasso, Bongouri, Dori, Dougondutchi, Fada N'Gouruna, Gaoua, Gaya, Goumbou, Goundam, Goure, Kati, Kayes, Kita, Kita, Koulikoro, Konty, Medine, Mopti, Natonake, Nimey, Niro, Quaghaviougou, Sani Sitadougou, Say, Segou, Sikasso, Sakolo, Tombouctou, and Tonkoto, and Yeni. Parcels accepted for any plice, but addressees must claim at nearest delivery office; namie of office must be included in address. Parcels for all places liable to delivery charges.
97, - The value entered in the Customs Declaration must be stated in Jodinu currency.
98. - No parcels may exceed 1000 in value. No com- pensation is paid in respect of loss or damage of parcels or their contents. Parcels are accepted only for Bang- kok, Chiengmui, Lampang, Paknamjoh, Patani, Puket, Raheng. Setul, Singora, and Trang.
99.- Express delivery confined to parcels for Free Town 100. -The value entered in the Customs Declaration must be stated in Indian money.
101.--Limit of value £50. No compensation is payable in respect of loss or damage of parcels or of their contents. A charge of 64, for stamp duty, clearance, &c., is levied on every dutiable parcel entering the Union. The value shown on the Customs Declaration must be the current value of the fluished articles in the open market at the time of despatch. In case of undervaluation the parcel is liable to confiscation. In the Cape of Good Hope and the Orange Free State there is no express delivery. In Natal, express delivery is contined to Charlestown, Dundee, Durban (including the Point) Greytown, Lady. smith, Newcastle. Pietermaritzburg, Port Shepstone, Stanger, Utrichet, Verulam and Vryheid. In the Trans- vaal, express delivery is confined to parcels for places with a Post Office from which there is a delivery of tele- granis. Waltisch Bay is a free port, and no Customs duty is leviable on goods for that place.
102 -- Parcels are not delivered by the Post Office, but by the Railway Comp mies and at certam Railway Stations only. The name of a Railway Station where Parcel Post business is done must form part of the address both on the parcel and the despatch note. Parcels to be called for should be addressed “En Gire” and not “Poste Restante." 103. –Watches or articles of gold and silver must be insured.
Communication with the Cocos Islands, where there is no Post Office, is irregular and infrequent.
104.—Parcels exceeding one Kilogramme (2}|b.)in weight are not delivered, except in Stockholm, but must be claimed at a Post Offi e.
Express Delivery is at present confined to Stock. holm, Gotheburg, and Malmö
15. The Customs declarations for parcel for Switzer- land must be made out in the French language.
No compensation is given for damage in Switzer. land to parcels ec ntaining liquids.
100% — Insurance confined to parcels for Anecho and Lome 107.—Parcels for Ottoman Offices in Turkey (in Europe or in Asia) must be packed in boxes of wood or metal, or wrapped in canvas, linen, or similar material, and not merely in paper or card-board. Every parcel must be sealed with wax.
108. -- Parcels must be packed in such a manner as to permit of their contents being easily inspected. Note:- The Post Office of either of the contracting countries will not be responsible for the loss of or damage to any parcels, and no indemnity can consequently be claimed by the sender or abdre-see in either country.
109), --Each parcel for the United States must be accom- ponied by an invoice which must be certified by U. §. Consul if the value of the parcel exceeds $200,
119, -Parcels may be accepted for any places in Uruguay if addressees ar.ange to claim them at the nearest delivery office.
111. No compensation is paid in respect of loss or daange of parcels or their contents. Detailed particulars of the contents and exact weight of parcels must be entered on the Customs De laration. A separate set of Declarations must be prepared for each parcel. No more than twenty kilogramimes of goods of one sort may be imported by one addressee in a single mail. As the conditions of transit involve numerous transhipments parcels should be very strongly packed, If packed in paper only they cannot be accepted.
112.-Uninsured parcels must not exceed £56. in value, No compensation is jail in respect of loss or damage of parcels or their contents. Parcels may be accepted for any place in the Zanzibar Protectorate, including Peniba, but delivery is confined to the town of Zauzibar and to Ciaki-Chaki and Weti in the island of Pemba, and the addressees of parcels for other places in the Protectorate must arrange accordingly.
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PROHIBITED CONTENTS
(N. B. — The following paragraphs are numbered to correspond with Nos, in "Prohibited Contents” column of Parcel Post Tables.)
1.—Articles of Gold or Silver and other precious articles; coins, arms and ammuni- tion, except with the authority of the Abyssinian Government.
2.-Letters, opium and cocaine, arms and ammunition.
3. —Letters, foreign bronze coins, arms and ammunition of war, medicines (the components of which are not stated), parts of the vine, vegetable compost, earth, manure, plants, bulbs or vegetables unless accompanied by a phylloxera certificate.
4.-Letters, vine plants, gold, silver, jewellery of exceptional value.
5.-Specie, ostrich feathers.
6.- Letters, opium, vines or cuttings, hop extracts or substitutes, horns and hoofs, rags, second-hand clothing, tobacco, cigars, cigarettes and snuff, unless bona- file samples or for the personal use of the addressee, who must satisfy the Colonial Customs Authorities as to the facts. The
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importation of plants, fruits, and spirits is subject to special restrictions, and the addressees of parcels containing these articles must make arrangements with the local authorities for delivery.
7.--Letters: - Potatoes and parts of potatoes, plants and parts of plants, from the United States of America; trick cigars; patent medicines and medical appliances, and circulars relating thereto; imitations of coin and paper money; secret and forbidden arms; essences of distilled spirituous liquors; wines coloured by means of aniline dyes; cracker paper; gold and silver articles not up to the proper standard; saccharine (unless for authorised chemists) vines or parts thereof, including leaves and cuttings; plants unless accompanied by a phylloxera certificate, cut flowers, seeds, bulbs, grape- stones, vegetables and fruit (except fresh fruit from America infected with San José
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