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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 24 August 1907, Page 3

An interesting fact full of significance is the extent to which the parcels post is being utilised by mercantile house? anil Wellington, and elsewhere for sending hats, lace, scarves, ties and other merchandise to their agents and eusllie Otago Daily Times, are now being sent by pared post instead of as freight by steamer. The Dimedin postal authorities report a tremendous increase in tho parcels department, no less than 234 bags and boxes of goods passing through .their hands recently in 0110 day. They ascribe this to the fact that the public is realising the impossibility of articles going astray or coming to grief per parcel post. Tt is like posting a. letter, and the goods come through without paying wharf rates or harbor dues. This naturally affects the harbor authorites and steamship lines, who, however, seem unable to move in the matter at present. AU that can be done is to try and induce the Government to refuse to carry, per parcel post, goods of a certain class or above a certain quality, except as samples, which practically means one article of a kind at a time. ''TTullo, Brown. How's you cold?" "Very obstinate." "How's your wife?" "About the same." Strong, unsweetened black coffee is a reconicnded cure for alcoholism. Sea air ia said to excite a desire for alcoholic stimulants,