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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

approaching engine or train is in sight, or the whistle
or bell can be heard at such crossing, shall be liable
to a penalty not exceeding five pounds.

28. Any person driving or attempting to drive
    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-
    lar 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,
    norfor 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 for 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