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RATES OF POSTAGE.-PARCEL POST.-Continued.

RATES OF POSTAGE ON PARCELS NOT EXCEEDING

HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE

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Gold (unless manufactured), ostrich feathers, spirits. Letters, tobaccɔ, salt, plants, coin, lottery tickets.

DESTINATION.

RATE

OF

TRANSMISSION

LIMIT OF SIZE. OBSERVATIONS.

PROGIBITED CONTENTS.

!

1 lb. 2 lbs. 3 lbs. 4 lbs. 5 lbs. 6 lbs. 7 lbs. 8 lbs. 9 lbs. 10 lbs. 11 lbs.

St. Helena

Via

London.

Salonica

(British

Post Office),

ย

Salvador,

13

Sarawak (See British

North Borneo),

Servia,

Seychelles,

London.

Calcutta.

$ c.

$ c.

3

$ c.

> c.

1,00

2.00

:

:

÷

50

:

1,60]

2.50

:

2.50

3.95

...

3.00 Same as Ascension;

3.00

Do.

5.40 Same as Austria.]

:

1.60,

3.00

Do.

:

2.95

3.35

3.75 4,15] 4.55

4.95

5.35 5.75

6.15

Same as Aden.

2.15 2.55

Siam,

Direct.

***

:

Sierra Leone (Sec

British West Af-

rica),

Spain,.

Do..

:

0.60

London,

1,60

German Packet.

Straits Settlements:-

(Mala acca, Penang, Province Wel- lesley, and Sin. gapore. Parcels are also accepted sender'Frisk

at

for Johore,Negri Sambilan, Pah- ang, Perak, Se- langor, in the Malay Peninsula)

Direct.

:

:

:

:

1.20

1.80

Same as Japan-

tine.

Same as Argen-|

2.00

Limit 6 lbs.

2.40

Limit 6 lbs.

0.00

1.20

:

1.80 {

Do.

Same as Ascen-¡

si..p.

(The Parcel post extends only] to Bangkok, Cheingma i,] Lampaug, Pack nampoh Naken, Sawan) and Raliang only.

Parcels are not delivered al any place which has not a railway sta tion.

Insurance con- fined to parcels for Malacca,| Penang, Pro-] vince Welles- ley. Singapore and Selangor. Un-insured. parcels my not exceed $5o| in value, abovej that all parcels must be fully insured up $500, the limit beyond which parcels are not transmisiblel by post.

to

Letters, coin, gold and silver articles, arms, ammunitions, nitrate of potash, saltpetre, powder of all kinds,

Letters, part of vines.

Letters,

counterfeit

coin,

foreign goods bearing the names or trade mark of a manufactory established in the United Kingdom. Arms, letters, liquids.

Letters, arms, ammunition, air- guna, Spanish maps, missals, rosaries, relics, breviaries, medicine not accompanied by the prescription, wax vestas, saccharine, tobacco, gold and silver jewellery.

Letters, specie, liquids, duti- able articles, dangerous arti- cles likely to injure other Watches or articles parcels of gold and silver must be insured.