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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

vehicles, sheep, horses, cattle, or other animals across
the Railway, on the level, either at an authorized
crossing-place or elsewhere, when an approaching
train is in sight, or when otherwise warned, shall be
liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds.
29. If any person pull down or injure any board
put up or affixed for the purpose of publishing any
list of tolls or notices, or any mile-post, or shall
obliterate any of the letters, marks, or figures on
any such board or post, he shall forfeit for every such
offence a sum not exceeding five pounds.
30. The General Manager shall publish the short
particulars of the several offences for which any
penalty is imposed by these or any other by-laws of
the Railway, and of the amount of every such
penalty, and shall cause such particulars to be
painted on a board, or printed upon paper and pasted
thereon, and shall cause such board to be hung up or
affixed on some conspicuous part of the principal
station of the Railway; and, where any such
penalties are of local application, shall cause such
boards to be affixed in some conspicuous place in
the immediate neighbourhood to which such penalties
are applicable or have reference; and such particu-
lars shall be renewed as often as the same, or any
part thereof, is obliterated or destroyed.
31. 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 removal
from such carriage or station as soon as shall be
practicable.
32. No driver or conductor of any cab, hackney
carriage, omnibus, express, or other public vehicle,
shall ply for hire within the Railway premises without
a license in writing from the General Manager or
other authorized officer; and any person offending
contrary to this section shall be liable to a penalty
not exceeding five pounds.
33. 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 such 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 Clerk or other Railway
servant, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding
two pounds.
34. Any person, unless authorized by the General
Manager, 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.
35. 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 ex-
tinguish 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.
36. No article shall be sold on any Railway pre-
mises without the consent of the General Manager,
and every person offending against the provisions of
this section shall forfeit a sum not exceeding five
pounds.
37. All persons employed on or about the Railway
or wharf are strictly prohibited from using the re-
freshment-room; and every such person partaking
of intoxicating liquor at such refreshment-room will
be liable to instant dismissal.
38. Any person attending upon the refreshment-
room who shall supply an employé on or about the
Railway or wharf with intoxicating liquor, shall be
liable to a penalty not exceeding two pounds, and
shall be dismissed from his employment.

Merchandise.
39. Neither Her Majesty the Queen nor the lessee
of any Railway will be accountable for any articles
unless the same be signed for as received by some
clerk or agent; nor will they, or any of them, be re-
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 acci-
dental or unavoidable delays in transit or otherwise.
40. 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.
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.