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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

for the purpose shall forfeit a penalty not exceeding
two pounds, and may be removed from the carriage
by any railway servant.

18. Dogs will be conveyed and charged for accord-
    ing to printed conditions, but will not on any account
    be allowed to accompany passengers in the carriages.
    Any person persisting in taking a dog into a passenger
    carriage shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding
    two pounds. *

19. No gratuity shall be, under any circumstances,
    allowed to be received by a railway servant, on pain
    of dismissal. Any person giving or offering a gratuity
    to any such servant shall be liable to a penalty not
    exceeding two pounds.

20. Any person making use of insulting or abusive
    language to any railway officer or servant while in
    the execution of his duty, or making use of indecent
    or blasphemous language in any carriage or upon
    any railway platform or premises, shall be liable to a
    penalty not exceeding five pounds, and to removal
    from such carriage or station as soon as shall be
    practicable.

21. Any person in or upon any railway carriage or
    station, being in a state of intoxication, or committing
    any nuisance, or gambling, or wilfully interfering
    with the comfort of any passenger, shall be liable to
    a penalty not exceeding five pounds, and to re-
    moval from such carriage or station as soon as shall
    be practicable.

22. Any person driving or attempting to drive
    sheep, horses, cattle, or other animals across the rail-
    way, either at an authorized crossing-place or else-
    where, when an approaching train is in sight, shall be
    liable to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds.

23. The driver or conductor of any hackney car-
    riage, omnibus, or other public vehicle, shall not
    ply for hire within the railway stations or pre-
    mises without a license in writing from the Super-
    intendent or other authorized officer, and must be
    subject to and abey every order or direction that may
    be given him by the Station Master or person in
    charge while on the said premises; and every such
    driver or other person refusing or neglecting to obey
    such directions or orders is hereby subjected to
    a penalty not exceeding five pounds.

24. No person will be allowed to come upon any
    railway platform for the purpose of removing any
    passenger or luggage, unless required by a passenger
    and engaged by him for that purpose, and no person
    will be allowed to come upon any railway premises
    for the purpose of soliciting custom or hire. Any
    person attempting to evade or being guilty of a
    breach of this section, or not quitting the premises
    when required by a Station Master or other railway
    servant, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding
    two pounds.

25. Any person, unless authorized by the Superin-
    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.

26. 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 extin-
    guish 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.

27. No article shall be sold on any railway pre-
    mises without the consent of the Superintendent; and
    every person offending against the provisions of this
    section shall forfeit a sum not exceeding five pounds.

28. The Railway Department does not undertake
    to forward horses and carriages by any particular
    train, or to transfer them on the journey by the con-
    necting train, where break of gauge occurs. The

owners of horses must provide means for securing
them in the horse-boxes. The Railway Department
will not be accountable for injuries sustained through
their breaking loose, or otherwise, nor will it under-
take to carry unbroken or vicious horses.

Merchandise.

29. 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 done 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, marble, 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 done to any goods in their
    hands as carriers, or in their warehouses, or on their
    landing-places, arising from fire, the act of God, civil
    commotion, or foreign enemies; nor for the loss of or
    damage done to goods put into boxes or packages de-
    scribed as empties; nor for damage done to 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; nor for any goods left until called for,
    or to order, or warehoused for the convenience of
    the parties to whom they belong, or by or to whom
    they are consigned; nor will they bind themselves to
    forward goods from any station by the first succeed-
    ing train after being delivered to the railway.

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, or
    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, that due
    care may be observed in the loading, and in no case
    will the railway be liable for the loss of such article.

33. Fruit, fish, meat, poultry, and any other perish-
    able articles will only be carried at owner's risk, and,
    if 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 sender
    or consignee; and payment or tender of the net pro-
    ceeds 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
    applied towards satisfaction of such general lien ard
    the expenses.