April 20.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 495

BRITISH, INTERCOLONIAL, AND FOREIGN PARCEL POST—continued.

Colony or Country. Route. Maximum Dimensions. Special Prohibitions.

Portugal (for list of the places in Portugal, including the Azores and Madeira, to which parcels can be transmitted, see pages 110 to 112)
Via
London-Sea direct
London-France
2ft. in any direction
(Greatest length, 2ft.; greatest length and girth combined, 4ft.)
Letters, silver money, tobacco, parts of the vine (except grapes without leaves) and plants, and (via France) gold, silver, jewellery, &c. A parcel may not consist of two or more packages tied together. Maximum weight, 6lb.

Queensland ...
Sydney ...
(Greatest length, 3ft. 6in.; greatest length and girth combined, 6ft.)

Quittah ...
London ...
(Greatest length, 2ft.; greatest length and girth combined, 4ft.)
Letters, gold, silver, jewellery, &c.

Réunion ...
London-France
(Greatest length, 2ft.; greatest length and girth combined, 4ft.)
Letters, tobacco in any form, plants or parts of plants (except seeds and dried roots), arms, ammunition, playing-cards, salt, Roumanian bronze money, rags, cotton-waste, &c.

Rhodes. See Turkey.

Roumania ...
London-Cologne
London-Hamburg
2ft. in any direction
Letters.

St. Croix ...
London ...
(Greatest length, 3ft. 6in.; greatest length and girth combined, 6ft.)
Bullion, ostrich feathers, Cape brandy, arrack, Bengal rum, aqua ardente.

St. Helena ...
London ...
Ditto
Letters.

St. John. Same as St. Thomas.

St. Kitts. See Leeward Islands.

St. Lucia ...
London ...
(Greatest length, 3ft. 6in.; greatest length and girth combined, 6ft.)

Ste. Maria de Madagascar. Same as Madagascar.

St. Thomas ...
London ...
(Greatest length, 3ft. 6in.; greatest length and girth combined, 6ft.)
Letters.

St. Vincent, West Indies ...
London ...
Ditto

Salonica. See Turkey.

Sarawak ...
London ...
Ditto

Sardinia. See Italy.

Scotland See United Kingdom.

Senegal ...
London-France
(Greatest length, 2ft.; greatest length and girth combined, 4ft.)
Letters, gold, silver, jewellery, &c.

Servia ...
London-Cologne
London-Hamburg
2ft. in any direction
Letters, parts of the vine.

Seychelles ...
London-France
Ditto
(Letters, gold or silver, articles, jewellery, &c., worn clothes, &c., if intended for sale.)
Letters, arms, opium.

Siam. Bangkok only ...
London-Singapore
Ditto
Letters, firearms, tobacco, salt, plants, swordsticks, materials for the composition of gunpowder, books unfavourable to the Ottoman Government.

Sicily. See Italy.

Sierra Leone ...
London ...
Ditto
Letters, gold, silver, jewellery, &c., tobacco, salt, and firearms.

Smyrna ...
London-Liverpool
London-France
Ditto
Ditto
(Letters, firearms, and ammunitions, air-guns, reproductions of Spanish maps or plans, missals, breviaries, rosaries, relics, &c., plants, gold silver, jewellery, &c. Maximum weight, 6lb.)
Opium, spirits

South African Republic. See Transvaal.

South Australia ...
Melbourne
(Greatest length, 2ft.; greatest length and girth combined, 4ft.)
(Letters, manufactured gold and silver not of a certain degree of fineness, drugs and arsenic unless addressed to professional men, articles made abroad bearing Swedish marks.)
Letters, plants with roots, alcohol, spirits of wine, and (via France) gold and silver articles, jewellery, objects of art.

Straits Settlements (Malacca, Penang, Province Wellesley, and Singapore). Parcels will also be accepted at sender's risk for Pahang, Perak, Selangor, and Sungei Ujong, Malayan Peninsula
London ...
2ft. in any direction. Parcels slightly longer than 2ft. are admitted if their other dimensions are small
Ditto