342
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

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 railway 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 otherwise, 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 forwarded to Dunedin or Port Chalmers at the expense of the consignee or owner, and there stored at his risk and expense.

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.

J. MACANDREW,
Superintendent.

1st May, 1873.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Warrant abolishing Polling Places and appointing others in lieu thereof.

G. A. ARNEY,
Officer Administering the Government.

TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, GREETING:

WHEREAS by "The Regulation of Elections Act, 1870," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor, by Warrant under his hand, from time to time to appoint Polling Places for each Electoral District within or within one mile of the limits thereof, and to appoint any one of such Polling Places to be the Principal Polling Place for the District, and all or any of such Polling Places from time to time to abolish, and, if he think fit, to appoint other Polling Places in lieu of those abolished, and that every such Warrant shall be published in the New Zealand Gazette: Provided always that no Polling Place shall be appointed by the Governor under the said Act unless he shall be first satisfied that the place to be appointed is more convenient than any other for at least twenty electors to record their votes thereat:

And whereas by Warrant under the hand of the Governor, certain places were appointed Polling Places in the Province of Canterbury for the election of Members of the Provincial Council thereof for the Districts of Rakaia and Ashburton:

And whereas it is expedient to abolish the same:

Now know ye that I, Sir George Alfred Arney, the Officer Administering the Government of New Zealand, in pursuance of the power and authority in me vested by the said Act, do hereby abolish all existing Polling Places for the above-named Districts in the Province of Canterbury for the election of Members of the Provincial Council, and do appoint in lieu thereof—

For Rakaia District:
School Room, junction of Hororata and Old South Road;
School Room, Hororata Downs;
School Room, Kowai Pass.

For Ashburton District:
Police Station in the Ashburton Township;
Nixon's Woolshed, Alford Station.

And I do also hereby abolish the existing Principal Polling Places for the above Districts of Rakaia and Ashburton for the election of Members of the Provincial Council thereof, and do appoint in lieu thereof—

For Rakaia District:
School Room, Junction of Hororata and Old South Road.

For Ashburton District:
Police Station in the Ashburton Township.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir George Alfred Arney, Knight, the Officer Administering the Government, and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, at the Government House, at Wellington, this twentieth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.

DONALD MCLEAN,
(in the absence of the Colonial Secretary).