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tendent, who shall post or stick any placard or bill
within or on any of the property or premises, shall
be subject to a penalty not exceeding two pounds.
28. Any person who shall wilfully injure, wholly or
in part, any of the linings or blinds, or break or
deface any of the windows, or remove or injure any
number-plate or advertisement, or remove or ex-
tinguish any of the lamps, or otherwise damage any
railway carriage, shall be liable to a penalty not
exceeding five pounds, in addition to the payment of
the amount of damage done.
29. No article shall be sold on any railway pre-
mises without the consent of the General Manager,
and every person offending against the provisions of
this section shall forfeit a sum not exceeding five
pounds.
30. All persons employed on or about the railway
or wharf are strictly prohibited from using the re-
freshment-room; and every such person partaking
of intoxicating liquor at such refreshment-room will
be liable to instant dismissal.
31. Any person attending upon the refreshment-
room who shall supply an employé on or about the
railway or wharf with intoxicating liquor, shall be
liable to a penalty not exceeding two pounds, and
shall be dismissed from his employment.

Merchandise.

32. 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 promissory 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 other-
    wise.
33. 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.
34. 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.
35. Fruit, fish, meat, poultry, and any other perish-
    able 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 pay-
    ment or tender of the net proceeds of any such sale,
    after deduction of freight and expenses, shall be
    accepted as equivalent to delivery.
36. All empties not taken away within one month
    after arrival will be sold to defray expenses.
37. 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 for 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.
38. All goods and merchandise, whether bonded or
free, and all luggage, having arrived at its destina-
tion, 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.
39. 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 Auckland or Onehunga at the
expense of the consignee or owner, and there stored
at his risk and expense.
40. All tolls and charges and warehousing charges
must be paid immediately to the person duly author-
ized to receive the same.
41. The above conditions, numbered from 32 to
40, both inclusive, apply to all parcels and goods
received by the railway at their respective offices and
warehouses, wherever situate.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Clerk in Audit Office appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 17th February, 1874.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

JOHN FREDERICK CHURTON
to be a Clerk in the Audit Department.

WILLIAM H. REYNOLDS,
(in absence of the Colonial Secretary).

I, the undersigned, hereby make application to
register "The Central Quartz Mining Com-
pany" as a Limited Company, under the provisions
of "The Mining Companies Act, 1872."

1. The name of the Company is to be "The Central Quartz
   Mining Company, Limited."
2. The place of operations is at the Alpine Range, Lyell,
   Province of Nelson.
3. The registered office of the Company will be situated at
   Lyell, Province of Nelson.
4. The nominal capital of the Company is ten thousand
   pounds (£10,000), in ten thousand (10,000) shares of one pound
   (£1) each.
5. The number of shares subscribed for is ten thousand
   (10,000), being not less than two-thirds of the entire number
   of shares in the Company.
6. The number of paid-up shares is nil.
7. The amount already paid up is five thousand pounds
   (£5,000), being the estimated value of the claim and the work
   done thereon.
8. The name of the Manager is David Leslie.
9. The names and addresses and occupations of the share-
   holders, and the number of shares held by each at this date, are
   as follow:-

No. of
Shares.
Theophilus Mabille, Lyell, Civil Engineer ... ... 1,000
John Paul, Upper Buller, Miner ... ... 500
Conrad Sandbrook Saxton, Nelson, Gentleman ... ... 1,000
Daniel McGurley, Reefton, Cattle Dealer ... ... 1,500
William Walsh, Upper Buller, Miner ... ... 1,000
John Brennan, Lyell, Miner ... ... 500
Alphonso Jecklin, Lyell, Miner ... ... 500