846
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

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 with the Station
Master or other responsible person in charge 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
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,
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.
30. The railway will give a receipt for all goods
landed from steamers, ships, or lighters; but notice
must be given to the railway by consignors of all
valuable, brittle, and hazardous goods.
31. 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
within seven days after the due time of delivery in
case of total loss.
32. 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.
33. Fruit, fish, meat, poultry, and any other
perishable articles not taken away within six hours
after arrival at the station to which they are con-
signed, may be forthwith sold by auction or other-
wise, without notice to sender or consignee; and
payment or tender of the net proceeds of any such
sale, after deduction of freight and expenses, shall
be accepted as equivalent to delivery.
34. All empties not taken away within one month
after arrival, will be sold to defray expenses.
35. 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 or storage 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 ap-
plied towards satisfaction of such general lien and
expenses.
36. All free goods and merchandise, not otherwise
described, and all luggage having arrived at its desti-
nation, shall, if ready for delivery before noon, be
removed by the consignees from the platform and
sheds or railway premises before six o'clock the
same day; and all free goods and merchandise or
luggage, having arrived at its destination after noon,
if ready for delivery before five o'clock the same day,
shall be removed by the consignees from the platform
and sheds or railway premises before noon on the
day following, if such day be not Sunday or a public
holiday, and if such be the case, then the day after;
and any free goods, merchandise, or luggage not re-
moved by that time, may be stored at the risk and
expense of the consignees or owners, and will become
subject to a charge at the rate of two shillings per
ton per week or fraction of a week, excepting grain,
which shall be subject to a charge of one shilling per
ton per week or fraction of a week; and any dutiable
goods or merchandise which shall have been examined
and passed by the Customs during the forenoon, shall
be removed by the consignees from the platform and
sheds or railway premises before six p.m. the same
day; and dutiable goods or merchandise, which have
been examined and passed by the Customs after noon
and before five o'clock the same day, shall be re-
moved by the consignees from the platform and
sheds or railway premises before noon on the
day following, if such day be not Sunday or a public
holiday, and if such be the case, then the day after;
and any dutiable goods or merchandise not removed
within the time aforesaid shall be subject to a charge
of two shillings per
ton per week or fraction of a week.
37. Bonded goods will be charged one shilling per
ton for Customs examination.
38. Wool shall be subject to the same conditions
respecting removal from the railway premises as
general goods, but respecting storage shall be subject
to a charge of one shilling per bale per week or
fraction of a week.
39. Coals, slates, stone, bricks, bar or pig iron,
and timber, shall be removed from the railway
premises within twelve working hours after the de-
livery of a specification thereof to the consignee, or
if the consignee be unknown, then within twelve
working hours after the specification be made out;
and any timber not removed within the period afore-
said shall be subject to the following charges, in
respect of the total appearing on the specification,
that is to say:
On cargoes—for every 25,000 feet or fractional
part of 25,000 feet, per 100 feet superficial on quan-
tity stated in specification—
1st 2nd 3rd 4th
Week. Week. Week. Week.
First 25,000 ft. or less, ½d. ½d. 1d. 1d.
Second 25,000 ,, ,, ½d. ½d. 1d. 1d.
Third 25,000 ,, ,, ½d. ½d. 1d. 1d.
Fourth 25,000 ,, ,, ½d. ½d. 1d. 1d.
and for every additional 100 feet above 100,000 feet
to pay ½d. per 100 feet per week for the first four
weeks. Every succeeding week, 2d. per 100 feet per
week on total quantity as stated in the specification.
41. Firewood, slabs, sawn or split posts rails and
other lumber, shall be removed from the railway
premises within twelve working hours after delivery
from the railway wagons, and if not so removed shall
be subject to a charge of one shilling per cord or
one hundred feet, as the case may be, for the first
week or fraction of a week, and every succeeding
week or fraction of a week.
42. The Railway Department shall deliver timber
whenever practicable without stacking and before the
specification thereof be made out.
43. Coals, slates, stone, bricks, bar and pig iron,
and timber, after being unloaded from the railway
wagons, may remain on storage at any station, except
those of Christchurch, Lyttelton, and Addington, for
forty-eight hours without storage being charged.
After such time the same charges will be made as
goods fixed in the preceding regulations, but goods un-
loaded from wagons at any siding where there is no
shed or Station Master, will be at the risk of the
owner or consignee of such goods.
44. Any goods, merchandise, or luggage forwarded
for shipment, which shall not be taken delivery of
by the consignee within one hour after arrival in
Lyttelton, and which shall not be shipped within that
time, may be stored at the risk and expense of the