HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE.-PROHIBITED CONTENTS.
90.-Letters, arms, except revolvers of calibre less than .44, air-guns, nitrate of potash, saltpetre, apparatus for coining money.
91.- Letters, grape vines or vine cuttings, spirits not perfumed or medicinal; tobacco, manufactured or unmanufactured.
92.-Letters: lottery tickets; arms and ammunition; tobacco, salt, petrol and al- cohol unless with the consent of the Ad- ministration of Monopolies; medicines and drugs not addressed to chemists; pharma- ceutical products not in the official pharmacopoeia; colours (with certain ex- ceptions). Meat, fresh or prepared, and animal products of all kinds are subject to sanitary regulations.
93.-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.
94.-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.
95.-Poisons (except under special licence).
96.--Letters: specie, bullion, gold-dust, nuggets, ostrich fealthers, except when made up into stoles, boas, hats, etc.; to- bacco stalks; essences of tobacco, tea, coffee or chicory; parts of the vine, grapes; coffee plants or parts of coffee plants; coniferous plants; eucalyptus plants; stone fruit trees, unless accompanied by a sworn declaration that they have not come from the United States or Canada: peach stocks and peach stones from any country. In addition, to the above, eau de cologne is prohibited into Basutoland. Importers of fire-arus must present a permit from the Colonial authorities.
97.-Letters, coins, firearms and amauni- tion, air-guns, reproductions of Spanish maps or plans, missals, breviaries, rosaries, relies, &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 saccharine. 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 regards plums, sardines, &c., sent via France, see France.
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98.-Letters, opium, morphia, morphine cocaine, spirits, bhang, firearms and am- munition. Parts of firearms are, however, admitted.
99.-Letters; manufactured gold and silver not of a certain degree of fineness some pharmaeutical products and arsenic, unless addressed to a State Pharmacy or to specially authorised persons; articles made abroad bearing Swedish marks.
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100.-Letters, newspapers and post cards intended for distribution, unless ad- dressed to a. Post Office; Italian 3, 1 and 2 franc pieces, glassware with Swiss Federal or Cantonal gauge marks; salt, unless with the permission of Cantonal auth- orities; alcohol, unless addressed Federal authority, and other spirits unless gross weight and percentage of alcohol are shown on the Customs Declaration; earth compost, grapes addressed to places in the Canton Valais, vines and parts thereof, other plants, unless accompanied by a phylloxera certificate and special permit from the Federal Department of agricul- ture; birds of many kinds, frozen meat from Australia meat preserved with boracic acid and similar substances; salt and smoked meat insufficiently cured; fresh meat except sirloins and fillets of beef and calves tongues, livers kidneys, and sweet breads. Parcels containing sausages and similar mixtures, bacon, or any other kinds of meat not prohibited from importation must be accompanied by a sanitary certificate, but this is not required in the case of game, poultry, rabbits, kids, fish, salami, and similar preparations smoked or dried, and pre served meat in bottles or mictal boxes,
101.-Letters, parts of articles liable to duty in Trinidad, rum, all other spirits except bond fide samples and perfumed or medicinal spirits, ganja, bhang, cannabis indica, opium
opium and tobacco, or any preparation thereof.
102.—Letters, coin, arms and ammuni- tion of war, nitrate of soda, saltpetre, sulphur, salt, tobacco, plants, parts of the vine, fresh vegetables, kif, chir, hashish.
103.—Letters, printing type, tobacco in any form except cigars, chewing tobacco, and snuff; hashish: salt, celluloid, chlorate of potassium, foreign silver coin, firearms (except single or double-barrelled sporting guns, not rifle-bored), patent medicines, and electric appliances of all kinds. Plants (unless accompanied by a phylloxera certificate), books, magazines, and news- papers can be sent by Parcel Post only at the sender's risk.le
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