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South Canterbury Times, Issue 5004, 11 May 1889, Page 4

FOREIGN PARCEL POST,

PARCEL POST BETWEEN NEW ZEALAND & THE UNITED KINGDOM

The following are the regulations under which parcels will be accepted and transmitted to the United Kingdom Parcels will only be forwarded by the steamers of the New Zealand Shipping Company, Limited, and the Shaw-Saville-Albion Company, Limited. A parcel for transmission must not exceed 111 b in weight, 3ft 6in. in length, or 6ft. in length and girth combined. Parcels of the maximum size and weight will only be received at, or delivered from, New Zealand post offices at places accessible by railway, steamer or mail coach. From places in New Zealand not served by railway steamer or mail-coach (list at page 67 of Postal Guide) only parcels not exceeding 51b in weight and not measuring more than 2ft. in length or Ift. in breadth or depth may be accepted. Parcels should be securely and substantially packed and closed by the sender. If wax is used, it should be of the special quality which resists the heat of a hot climate. Parcels must not be posted in a postingbox, but should be presented at the postoffioe ounter.

Where not repugnant to the foregoing rules the general regulations of the Inland Parcel Post will apply. Parcels are received and forwarded at owner’s risk, and the Postmaster General is not liable for any loss of or damage to any parcel. ' On payment of a fee of 4d, the sender can at time of posting receive a certificate of posting. The certificate imposes no liability on the department, and is merely intended as evidence of posting. For a parcel not exceeding 21b. in weight, Is 6d ; for every additional pound or fraction thereof, 9d extra. Postage must be fnlly prepaid by means of postage stamps affixed to the parcels. Insufficiently-prepaid parcels will not be accepted. Parcels for transmission to the United Kingdom must be posted or delivered at the parcel post office at the port where the steamer takes her final departure at least eight hours before the close of the ordinary letter-mail. The hour for closing parcel-post mail elsewhere will be duly notified by Postmasters.

Each parcel should he plainly directed; the direction should give name and full address of the person for whom the parcel is intended. The words “ Parcel Post ” should be written on the upper left-hand corner, and also the name and address of the sender. Parcels will be liable to;the Customs laws, duties, and regulations of the colony and the United Kingdom respectively. The sender of each parcel will be required to make a Customs declaration (on a form to be obtained at parcel post offices), describing the contents and stating the -value thereof, and also giving the name of the place to which the parcel is addressed and the sender’s signature and residence. False declaration involves forfeiture of parcels and renders sender liable to prosecution. No containing dangerous articles, perishable articles, articles likely to injure other parcels, liquids, unless securely packed in proper cases, or any contraband articles or substances will be accepted. Parcels found to contain forbidden articles, and parcels] the contents of which have been falsely declared, will be dealt with in accordance with the Customs and other laws and regulations. Tobacco cannot be sent to the United Kingdom by parcel post. A parcel must not contain a letter, neither must it contain another parcel addressed to a person other than the addressee of the first-named parcel. If such an enclosure be discovered, it will be charged with a separate rate of postage.

AN INTERESTING LETTER FROM 1 VETERAN.

As this is Jubilee year it tends to make one look back and think of the flight of time, and in this way I am reminded that I am one of the veterans in the sale of your valuable and successful medicine. I have sold it from the very first, and have sent it to every country in England and many parts of Scotland. Well Ido remember the first circular you sent out some nine or ten years ago. You had come to England from America to introduce Mother Seigel’s Curative Syrup, and I was struck by a paragraph in which you used these words:—“Being a stranger in a strange land, I do not wish the people to feel that I want to take the least advantage over them. I feel that I have a remedy that will cure disease, and I have so much confidence in it that I authorise my agents to refund the money if people should say that they had not benefited by its use. ” I felt at once that you would never say that unless the medicine had merit, and I applied for the agency, a step which I now look back upon with nride and satisfaction.

Bver since that time I have found it by far the best remedy for Indigestion and Dyspepsia I have met with, and I have sold thousands of bottles. It has never failed where there were any of the following symptoms: Nervous or sick headache, sourness of the stomach, rising of food after eating, a sense of fulness and heaviness, dizziness, bad breath, slime and mucus on the gum and teeth, constipation, and yellowness of the eyes and skin, dull and sleepy sensatons, ringing in the ears, heartburn, loss of appetite, and, in short, wherever there are signs that the system is clogged, and the blood is out of order. Upon repeated inquiries, covering a great variety of ailments, my customers have always answered “ I am better, ”or “ I am perfectly well. ” What I have seldom or never seen before in the case of medicine is that people tell each other of its virtues, and those who have been cured say to the suffering: “Go and get