794

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

senger 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 per-
son attempting to evade or being guilty of a breach
of this section, or not quitting the premises when re-
quired by a Station Clerk or other railway servant,
shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds.

35. 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 ten pounds.

36. 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
    engine, carriage, truck, wagon, or other property
    belonging to a railway, shall be liable to a penalty
    not exceeding ten pounds, in addition to a sum equal
    to the cost incurred in repairing any such damage.

37. Any person selling, or attempting to sell, any
    article on any of the premises of a railway without
    the consent of the General Manager, shall forfeit a
    sum not exceeding ten pounds.

38. 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.

39. 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 ten pounds, and
    shall be dismissed from his employment.

Merchandise.

40. 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
    accidental or unavoidable delays in transit or other-
    wise.

41. Every person, before delivering any of the
    special goods above mentioned at any railway station,
    shall first give to the person in charge of such
    station a statement in writing declaring the nature
    and value of such special goods, and the person so
    in charge shall give a receipt for the same, specifying
    the nature and value so declared.

42. No person, unless he has first delivered such
    statement and received such receipt, shall be entitled
    to recover, in respect to any loss or damage of or to
    any such special goods, any greater sum than five
    pounds in respect of any such parcel in which any

in respect of any horses, ten pounds per head
in respect of any neat cattle, and one pound per head
in respect of any sheep or swine.

43. 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.

44. No person shall have any right to send by a
    railway any goods of a dangerous nature; and if any
    person attempts to send by a railway, or deposits in
    any premises of the railway, any box or package
    containing any such goods, or any goods declared by
    the regulations, or publicly notified by the Minister,
    to be of a dangerous nature, without distinctly
    marking the contents on the outside of such box or
    package, or giving notice in writing of the contents
    to the officer in charge of the station at which such
    box or package is left, he shall be guilty of a mis-
    demeanour.

45. 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.

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

47. 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.

48. 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.

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

50. If any person refuses or fails to pay the
    proper charges for any goods carried on a railway,
    or received on, stored in, or delivered from any
    wharf, pier, jetty, shed, or yard connected therewith,
    or any charge for demurrage, for one month after
    demand of same by any person duly authorized to
    collect such charges, any such goods, or in case such
    goods have been delivered, then any other goods on
    the premises of the railway belonging to the same
    person, may, by order of the Minister, be sold; and
    the proceeds of such sale shall be used first for pay-
    ing the said charges and the expenses of such sale,
    and the balance, if any, shall be paid over to the
    owner of the goods sold.

51. If any such goods are left on the premises of
    the railway, and the owner thereof, or the person
    liable for the charges thereon, is not known, the
    Minister may cause it to be publicly notified that
    such goods will be sold upon a day named in such
    notice, not less than one month from the publication
    thereof; and if such goods are not removed and the
    charges thereon paid before such day, the said goods
    may be sold, and the balance of the proceeds of such
    sale, after paying the charges upon such goods, shall