684
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

sponsible 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 com-
motion, 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.

40. No claim for loss or damage will be allowed
    unless specified in writing, and made within two days
    after delivery in case 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 ex-
    pense 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.
Waitara or Wanganui Railway.
Waitara to New Plymouth.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council,

NORMANDY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
twenty-sixth day of October, 1875.

Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly
of New Zealand, intituled "The Electric
Telegraph Act, 1875," it is enacted that it shall be
lawful for the Governor, by Order in Council, from
time to time to make, alter, amend, and revoke regu-
lations for the following purposes:--

For the transmission and delivery of all de-
spatches, messages, and communications by
means of any such line.

For fixing and determining the fees, rates, or
dues to be demanded and received for the
transmission of any such despatch, message,
or communication, and for the delivery there-
of respectively, and the modes and times of
payment.

For regulating the conduct, management, work-
ing, and maintenance of any such telegraph
line, and the conduct of any officers or per-
sons employed therein.

For providing by whom such fees, rates, and
dues may be legally recovered.

Such regulations shall have the force of law when
published in the New Zealand Gazette: Provided that
a scale of all such fees, rates, and dues, and a copy of
every such regulation, shall, within fourteen days
after being so published, be laid before the General
Assembly if then sitting, or if not then sitting,
within fourteen days after the commencement of the
Session next following such publication.

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor of
New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the
powers vested in him by the hereinbefore recited
Act, doth, with the advice and consent of the Execu-
tive Council of New Zealand, make the additional
regulations contained in the Schedule hereto: And
in further pursuance and exercise of the said powers,
and with the like advice and consent as aforesaid,
His said Excellency doth hereby order and declare
that such regulations shall take effect from and after
the first day of November, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-five, and that they shall be
read with and form part of the regulations now in
force.

SCHEDULE.

TELEGRAMS may be sent to Chambers of Commerce
in New Zealand, notifying the arrival or departure
of steamers at or from any port in New Zealand, at
the rate of 3d. per telegram; provided that each
telegram shall contain only the name of one steamer,
the date and hour of her arrival or departure, and
destination. Every such telegram shall be made
"collect" by the sender, and shall be paid for by
the receiver on delivery.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.