after delivery in case of partial loss or damage, or
within seven days after the due time of delivery in
case of total loss.

41. The General Manager will refuse to receive
    for carriage any goods which in the judgment of the
    officers of the railway 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.

42. 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.

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

44. 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 other-
    wise, and the proceeds applied towards satisfaction
    of such general lien and expenses.

45. 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 duly fixed
    with respect to 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.

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

47. All tolls and charges and warehousing charges
    must be paid immediately to the person duly author-
    ized to receive the same.

48. The above conditions, numbered from 39 to
    48, both inclusive, apply to all parcels and goods
    received by the proper officers of the railway at the
    offices and warehouses thereof, wherever situate.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

Auckland to Mercer Railway—Auckland to Mercer.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Tokatoka District altered and re-defined for the holding
of Courts of Petty Sessions.

NORMANBY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
first day of June, 1875.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Petty Sessions Act, 1865,"
it is enacted that the Governor, from time to
time, by Order in Council, whereof notice shall be
published in the New Zealand Gazette, may constitute
and define districts within and for which Courts of
Petty Sessions respectively shall be held, and such
districts, or any of them, may from time to time in
manner aforesaid abolish, and the boundaries thereof
may define or alter:

And whereas by an Order in Council bearing date
the twenty-seventh day of April, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-two, His Excellency the Gover-
nor, in pursuance and exercise of the power in that
behalf vested in him as aforesaid, did define the
District of Tokatoka, in the Province of Auckland,
to be a district within and for which Courts of Petty
Sessions should be held for the purposes of the said
Act: And whereas it is expedient to abolish the
district aforesaid, and to define another district within
the said Province within and for which Courts
of Petty Sessions shall be held for the purposes of
the said Act:

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor of
the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and
exercise of the power in this behalf vested in him as
aforesaid, doth hereby, with the advice and consent
of the Executive Council of the Colony, abolish, from
and after the first day of July next, the District of
Tokatoka, within the Province of Auckland, defined
in the said Order in Council, and with the like
advice and consent, doth hereby define the district
following to be a district, from and after the said
first day of July, within and for which Courts of
Petty Sessions shall be held for the purposes of the
said Act, that is to say:

PROVINCE OF AUCKLAND.

Tokatoka District.

This district is bounded towards the East by the
western boundaries of the Whangarei, Mangapai,
Waipu, and Matakoke Districts, and by the Wairoa
River; towards the South by the entrance to the
Kaipara Harbour; towards the South-west by the
sea; and towards the North by the southern boundary
of the Waimate District.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Sections 20 to 45 of the Public Health Act to be
in force in certain Districts in the Province of
Auckland.

NORMANBY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At Dunedin, this nineteenth day of May, 1875.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the nineteenth section of "The
Public Health Act, 1872," it is enacted that the
Governor in Council may make Orders in Council,
from time to time, directing that the provisions there-
inafter contained in that part (being Part Two) of
the Act now in recital contained, or any of them, be
put in force in New Zealand, or in such parts thereof
or in such places therein as in such orders respec-
tively may be expressed, and may in like manner
revoke or renew any such order; and, subject to
revocation or renewal as aforesaid, every such order
shall be in force for six calendar months from the
publication of such order, or for such shorter period
as in such order shall be expressed, and no longer;
and every such order shall be published in the
General Government Gazette, and such publication
shall be conclusive evidence of such order to all