THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 159

GENERAL REGULATIONS.

Mean time kept at all Stations.

Notice.—In order to secure the punctual departure
of trains, passengers are requested to be at the
stations at least five minutes before the time ap-
pointed for starting, and earlier if they have luggage,
as the Government cannot be responsible for pas-
sengers not going by any train, unless they have
taken their seats before the time it is due to start, or
for any luggage not being sent on if it is not in the
station, and labelled, at least five minutes before the
advertised time of departure of the train.

Children under three years travel free; those
above three years and under twelve, at half price.

Tickets must be shown to the railway servants, or
delivered up to them when demanded. Parties not
producing their tickets are liable to be charged the
fare from the most distant station from which the
train shall have started. They are only available on
the day of issue, and are not transferable. Parties
cannot re-book at an intermediate station by the
same train. No tickets will be issued after a train
arrives at an intermediate station.

Tickets.—Passengers are requested to examine
their tickets and change before leaving the booking
office counter, as mistakes cannot afterwards be
rectified.

The Government will not undertake to make any
allowance for tickets lost, mislaid, or not used.

Luggage.—Every first-class passenger may take with
him, without extra payment, 120 lbs.; every second-
class passenger, 100 lbs. of luggage. All other
luggage must be paid for at half parcel rates ac-
cording to weight. The Government will not in any
case be liable for luggage taken with the passengers
into the carriages, but only when it is labelled and
placed in the luggage van.

Incivility.—The Government requests that any
instance of incivility or misconduct on the part of
the persons employed at the stations, may be directly
reported to the General Manager.

N.B.—The Government appoint that the under-
mentioned sums be paid them for warehousing
passengers' luggage, which has been, or which is
about to be, conveyed on their railway, viz.,—

For any period not exceeding three days, 2d. for
each package; and after three days, 1d. additional
for each package per day, or part of a day.

And they hereby give notice that they will not
be answerable for loss or injury to any such
package beyond the value of £5, unless at the
time of the delivery of such package to them, the
true value and nature thereof, and of the article or
articles, or property therein, shall have been declared
by the person delivering the same, and a sum at the
rate of 1d. per pound sterling of the declared value be
paid for such package for each day or part of a day
for which the same shall be left, in addition to the
before-mentioned ordinary warehouse charges.

Every person depositing luggage will be furnished
with a receipt, stating the number and description of
the articles deposited, which receipt must be given up
to the railway servants upon their delivery of the
articles thereon described; and the Government give
notice that they will not deliver up luggage except
to persons producing the proper receipt for the
respective articles claimed, which delivery shall acquit
the Government from all further claims in respect
thereof.

The Government will not be responsible, under any
circumstances, for loss of, or injury to, any articles,
except deposited in the cloak-room.

Articles of merchandise, such as hampers or cases,
furniture, household stores, &c., will not be received
at the cloak-rooms; and such packages can only be
forwarded through the parcels or goods offices as
parcel or goods, and they must in all cases be fully
addressed.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Lands Sold Under the New Zealand Settlements
Act.

NORMANBY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
twenty-third day of February, 1875.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The New Zealand Settlements
Amendment and Continuance Act, 1865," it
is enacted that the order and manner in which land
taken under the authority of "The New Zealand
Settlements Act, 1863," and "The New Zealand
Settlements Amendment and Continuance Act,
1865," should be laid out for sale and sold, should
be at the discretion of the Governor, who shall have
power to cause such land or any part thereof
to be laid out for sale and sold from time to time
in such manner, for such consideration, and in such
allotments as he shall think fit, and subject to such
regulations as he shall, with the advice of the Execu-
tive Council, from time to time prescribe:

And whereas by "The New Zealand Settlements
Amendment Act, 1866," it is provided that the said
lands shall be sold for such consideration or at such
price, and whether for cash or otherwise, as the Go-
vernor shall from time to time prescribe; and that
all lands taken under authority of the said "New
Zealand Settlements Act, 1863," and "The New
Zealand Settlements Amendment and Continuance
Act, 1865," or either of them, and sold or disposed of
under the authority of the said first-recited Act, shall
be sold or disposed of under regulations to be made
by the Governor in Council, which regulations shall
be published in the New Zealand Gazette :

And whereas it is expedient that the land men-
tioned in the Regulations hereunder written should
be sold to "The Patea Town Hall Company,
Limited," therein named, as by the said Regulations
is provided:

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, in
exercise of all powers and authorities vested in him
in that behalf, doth hereby, with the advice and
consent of the Executive Council of the Colony,
make the following Regulations for the sale and
disposal of the land mentioned therein, and which
said land has been taken under the said Acts or
some or one of them.

REGULATIONS.

1. It shall be lawful for the officer in charge of
   confiscated land at Patea to sell to "The Patea Town
   Hall Company, Limited," all that parcel of land
   in the Province of Taranaki, containing by admeasure-
   ment one (1) rood more or less, situate in the Town-
   ship of Carlyle, and being Section numbered one (1)
   of Block thirty-six (XXXVI.) in the said Township:
   —Bounded towards the North-east by Taranaki Road,
   one hundred and twenty-five (125) links; towards
   the South-east by a road line, two hundred (200)
   links; towards the South-west by a line one hundred
   and twenty-five (125) links; and towards the North-
   west by Section numbered two (2) of the said Block,
   two hundred (200) links, for the sum of five (5)
   pounds sterling. Such sale shall be made by private
   contract, and the purchase money shall be paid by