26 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 3

Live Bees, Natural History Specimens, &c.

17. Live bees and harmless entomological specimens may be forwarded at sample-post rates to any place within the colony, Australia, the United Kingdom, and to the United States, provided they are enclosed in covers so constructed as to avoid all danger and to allow the contents to be ascertained. Live bees similarly packed may also be sent to all other places. Natural history specimens, such as dried or preserved animals and plants, geological specimens, &c., when not sent for commercial purposes, are admitted to transmission as samples.

Limits of Size and Weight.

18. Packets addressed to places within New Zealand, Australia, or the United Kingdom must not exceed 2ft. in length, or 1ft. in width and depth. The maximum weight admissible to places within the colony and the United Kingdom is 5lb., and Australia 1lb. (See under “Prohibited Articles.”)

19. Pattern- and sample-packets sent to any other place must not exceed 1ft. in length 8in. in width, 4in. in depth, and 12oz. in weight, unless they be in the form of a roll, for which the maximum dimensions are limited to 1ft. in length and 6in. in diameter.

MAGAZINES.

For New Zealand, Australia (except Queensland and Western Australia), and Tasmania —Each copy of a registered magazine, not exceeding 2oz., ½d ; if over 2oz. and up to 8oz., 1d. ; each additional 4oz. or fraction, ½d.

For Queensland—Not exceeding 4oz., 1d. ; each additional 4oz. or fraction, 1d.

For Western Australia and other places, as for printed papers. Magazines are registered on application to the Secretary, General Post Office. Unregistered magazines are charged for at printed-paper rates.

The following is a list of magazines registered at the General Post Office up to the 31st December, 1900:—

All the World. Gardening. Photogram.
Argosy. Girls’ Own Paper. Physical Culture.
Artist. Girls’ Realm. Practical Photographer.
Art Journal. Good Words. Quiver.
Atlantic Monthly. Harmsworth’s Magazine. Railway Magazine.
Badminton Magazine. Harper’s Magazine. Royal Magazine.
Banner of Israel. Home Life. St. Nicholas.
Belgravia. Home Magazine. Schild’s Ladies’ Fashions.
Blackwood’s Magazine. Home Notes. „ Monthly Journal.
Bookman. Hospital. „ Mothers’ Help.
Boys’ Own Paper. Idler. Scribner.
Building World. Junior Photographer. Something to Read.
Canterbury Agricultural and Knowledge. Strand Magazine.
Pastoral Association’s Ladies’ Realm. Strand Musical Magazine.
Journal. Ladies’ World. Studio.
Cassell’s Magazine. Leach’s Dressmaker. Sunday at Home.
„ Penny Magazine. Leisure Hour. Sunday Chimes.
„ Saturday Journal. London Journal. Sunday Strand.
Century. Longman’s Magazine. Tailor and Cutter.
Chambers’s Journal. Ludgate Magazine. Teachers’ World.
Chapman’s Magazine. McClure’s Magazine. Temple Bar.
Christian Herald. Macmillan’s Magazine. Temple Magazine.
Chums. Magazine of Art. Weldon’s Bazaar.
Contemporary Review. Munsey. „ Illustrated Dress.
Cornhill. National Review. „ Journal of Costume.
Cosmopolitan. Nature. Weldon’s Ladies’ Journal.
Covenant People. Nautical Magazine. Wide World Magazine.
Current Literature. New Review. Windsor Magazine.
Delineator. New Zealand Medical Woman at Home.
English Illustrated Magazine. Journal. Womanhood.
Family Herald. Nineteenth Century. Woman’s Life.
Family Reader. Our Home. Work.
Figaro Illustrée. Pall Mall Magazine. Young Ladies’ Journal.
Fortnightly Review. Pearson’s Magazine.
Garden. Phonetic Journal.

NEWSPAPERS.

Rates of Postage.

1. The postage for the transmission of newspapers is—
   (a.) For places within the colony—For each newspaper, ½d.
   (b.) For Australia (except Queensland) and the South Sea Islands—For each newspaper, 1d.
   (c.) For other countries and Queensland—Each newspaper, 1d. for the first 4oz., and ½d. for each additional 2oz. or fraction thereof.

2. If more than one newspaper be enclosed in a packet, each newspaper must be prepaid, as if separate.

3. Newspapers, if addressed to places beyond the colony and posted unpaid, are detained and advertised as in the case of “printed papers.” Unpaid and insufficiently prepaid newspapers intended for delivery within the colony, and insufficiently prepaid newspapers for places beyond the colony, are forwarded to destination charged double the deficiency at the prepaid rate.

Conditions of Transmission.

4. Newspapers published in the colony must be registered at the General Post Office, for which a fee of 5s. is payable.

5. A newspaper is a publication consisting wholly or in great part of political or other news, or of articles relating thereto or to other current topics, with or without advertisements. It may be printed and published in New Zealand or elsewhere, but shall be published in numbers at intervals of not more than thirty days. The full title