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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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