THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 179

Merchandise.
The railway will not be accountable for any articles
unless the same be signed for as received by their
clerks or agents; nor will they be responsible for the
loss of or damage to money in cash, or bills, or pro-
missory notes, or securities for money or jewellery,
trinkets, rings, precious stones, bullion, gold and
silver plate, clocks, watches, mirrors, marbles, lace,
furs, silks, writings, title deeds, prints, paintings,
maps, or other valuables; nor for damage done to
china, glass, musical instruments, furniture, toys,
castings, or any other such hazardous or brittle
articles, unless they shall have been declared as such,
and a special agreement entered into for the same;
nor for any loss or damage to any goods in their
hands as carriers, or in their warehouse, or on their
landing places, arising from fire (except from their
own engine or apparatus), the act of God, civil
commotion, or foreign enemies; nor for the loss of or
damage done to goods put into boxes or packages
described as empties; nor for damage of any goods
or packages insufficiently or improperly packed, or
containing a variety of articles liable by breaking
to damage each other or other articles; nor for
leakage; nor for any loss or damage whatsoever by
reason of accidental or unavoidable delays in transit
or otherwise.

No claim for loss or damage will be allowed unless
specified in writing and made within two days after
delivery in case of partial loss or damage, or within
seven days after the due time of delivery in case of
total loss.

The railway will refuse to receive for carriage any
goods which in the judgment of their agents may be
of a dangerous nature; and senders of any dangerous
articles will be held accountable for any damage
arising therefrom, unless the contents shall have been
declared at the time of delivery.

Fruit, fish, meat, poultry, and any other perishable
articles not taken away within six hours after arrival
at the station to which they are consigned, may be
forthwith sold, by auction or otherwise, without notice
to the sender or consignee; and payment or tender
of the nett proceeds of any such sale, after deduction
of freight and expenses, shall be accepted as equivalent
to delivery.

All empties not taken away within one month after
arrival, will be sold to defray expenses.

All goods are received and will be held by the rail-
way subject to a general lien for money due, not only
for the carriage of such goods, and for wharfage and
warehouse rent, but also for any general balance
that may be due from the owner. And in case any
goods should not be claimed within three calendar
months after their arrival at the station to which they
are consigned, they will be sold, by auction or other-
wise, and the proceeds applied towards satisfaction of
such general lien and expenses.

All goods and merchandise, whether bonded or free,
and all luggage, having arrived at its destination, shall
be removed by the consignees from the platform and
sheds within twelve working hours; and any free
goods, merchandise, or luggage not removed by that
time, may be stored at the risk and expense of the
consignees or owners, and will become subject to such
charges as may from time to time be fixed by the
railway; and any bonded goods or merchandise which
shall not be removed within the period aforesaid, shall
be subject to the payment of the sum of two shillings
per ton per day until the removal of the same from
the railway premises.

Any goods, merchandise, or luggage arriving at any
station, which shall not be removed from the railway
premises within twelve working hours, may be for-
warded to Christchurch at the expense of the consignee
or owner, and there stored at his risk and expense.

Goods Addressed for Shipment.—The railway will
not be accountable for merchandise after it leaves the
wharf or the railway waggon as the case may be.

Merchandise to be lightered will be delivered to the
lighterman named by the consignor; and if the
consignor should omit to name a lighterman, or if the
person named should fail to take possession of the
goods when required to do so, the railway may engage
the necessary lighterage at the cost and risk of the
consignor, or may warehouse the goods at the expense
and risk of the owner or consignor.

N.B.—The above conditions apply to all parcels
and goods received by the railway at their respective
offices and warehouses wherever situate.

All tolls and charges and warehousing charges must
be paid immediately to the person duly authorized to
receive the same.

W. ROLLESTON,
Superintendent.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

NOTE.—This Order in Council is reprinted from the Gazette
of 13th March inst., No. 16, in consequence of its being therein
erroneously dated the 22nd February, 1873, instead of the 27th
February, 1873.

Foot-and-Mouth Disease does not exist in New
South Wales.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 14th March, 1873.

THE following letter from the Colonial Secretary
of New South Wales, reporting that foot-and-
mouth disease does not exist in that Colony, is
published for general information.

JOHN BATHGATE,
(for the Colonial Secretary).

Sydney, 18th February, 1873.

SIR,—Referring to my letter of the 7th instant, and
to yours of the 20th ultimo, inquiring whether a
report that the foot-and-mouth disease had been in-
troduced into this Colony, and existed amongst the
cattle here, were true, I have the honor to inform
you that two shipments of infected cattle were brought
into the port of Sydney, one by the "Parramatta,"
in December, 1871, and the other by the "Ranee,"
in June last, but that both shipments were on arrival
placed in quarantine on an Island in Port Jackson,
where they remained until they were free from
disease.

2. With regard to the report that the foot-and-
   mouth disease now exists in this Colony, it is, I have
   the honor to state, wholly without foundation, as
   none of the cattle belonging to this Colony were ever
   infected with that disease.

I have, &c.,
HENRY PARKES.

The Hon. the Colonial Secretary
of New Zealand, Wellington.

Revising Officer Appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 18th March, 1873.

IT is hereby notified that His Honor Mr. Justice
Richmond has reported that he has appointed
EDWARD JAMES LEE, Esq.,

to be Revising Officer for the districts of Picton,
Wairau, City of Nelson, Motueka, Collingwood,
Suburbs of Nelson, Waimea, Buller, Grey Valley,
Hokitika, and Totara.

JOHN BATHGATE.