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RATES OF POSTAGE. PARCEL POST.-Continued

RATES OF POSTAGE ON PARCELS NOT EXCEEDING

ROUTE

DESTINATION.

LIMIT OF Size,

OBSERVATIONS.

OF

PROHIBITED CONTENTS.

TRANSMISSION

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

HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE

Via

St. Helena

London.

Salonica

(British

Post Office)

11

Salvador,

Sarawak

$ c.

$ c.

$ c.

$ c.

$ c.

$ c.

0

1.00

1,60

2.20

"

:

⠀

2.00

3.00 Same as Ascension

:

2.30

3.00

Do.

:

3.50

4.80

Do.

Singapore

.90

:

1.80

2.70

Do.

Senegal.

including

the French Soudan

Servia,

Seychelles,

Siam,.

Sierra Leone (See)

British West Af-

London.

Calcutta.

Direct.

rica)

Spain

Do.

(Continental! (Balearic Isles)

London.

Spain

German Packet.

traits Settlements:-

Christmas Islands,"

Dindings, Labuan, Mal. асса, Penang, Province Wel- lesley, and Sin- gapore.

Direct.

i

÷

:

1.75

2.45

3.15 Same as Argentine

1.45

2.15

1.90

2.30

0.60

1.20]

:

:

No pracel may (Gold (unless manufactured),

exceed $500 inį ostrich feathers, spirits. value.

Letters, tobacco, salt, plants.

coin, lottery tickets.

Insurance confined ⚫to parcels for Dagana, Dakar: Fatick, Foundi- ougne, Gorée, Kaolack. Louga, N'Dande, Podor, Rufisque, St. Louis, Thiès, Tivaouane, Ziqu- inchor and Sédhiou.

Letters, coins, gold and silver articles, arms, ammuniticos, nitrate of potash, saltpetre, powder of all kinds. Letters opinm

Same as France.

2.85 Same as Ascension Same as Roumenial Letters, part of vines.

2.70

Io.

1.80

Do.

...

1.301

2.00

2.707

1.40

2.15

2.85

Do.

2.50

Do,

0.60

1.20

1.80

Do.

The Parcel post extends only to Bangkok, Cheing- mai, Lampang rack nam poh Naken, Swen and Raban only. No pral may oxceed

50 in value.

Parcels are not

delivered

at

any place which has not

a railway sta tion.

Letters, counterfeit coin, foreign gouds bearing the uames or trade mark of a mauufactory established in the United Kingdom. Arms, letters, liquids, opium,

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

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

Arms and ammunition. Opium, Spirits, Bhang,

Morphia.

Morphine or Cocaine.

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