THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1801

paid by the Public Trustee to any person establish-
ing a lawful claim thereto.
51. If the Minister shall have paid any claim for
goods for the time being lost on a railway, and such
goods are afterwards found, the claimant shall have
the option of taking such goods when refunding the
amount so paid to him, but if he decline to do so
such goods shall be sold, and the proceeds of such
sale shall be paid into the Public Account.
52. The Minister may from time to time fix or
alter scales of fares and charges for passengers and
goods carried on a railway, or received on or into, or
stored in, or delivered from any wharf, pier, jetty,
store, shed, or yard in connection with a railway, or
for demurrage on the use of any rolling-stock, or for
the use of any cranes, hoists, or other machinery for
loading or unloading of such goods, by a notice
published in the New Zealand Gazette declaring the
date at which such shall take effect. A printed notice
of such fares and charges shall also be fixed and
maintained in a conspicuous place at such stations as
may be deemed advisable by the Engineer-in-Chief.
The Minister may authorize the General Manager
from time to time to alter such passenger fares and
rates temporarily by publishing a notice to that effect,
such notice to be affixed in some conspicuous place
at each station to which such alterations refer on the
line of railway affected.
The General Manager may from time to time
make time-tables fixing and showing the times at
which trains arrive at and depart from stations;
such time-tables, so far as relating to public passen-
ger trains, shall be advertised in a local newspaper
three days before coming into force, and shall also
be posted in a conspicuous place at each station on
the railway affected where tickets are sold.
The General Manager may, by the posting of
notices at such stations as they refer to, fix rules for
regulating the loading and unloading of carriages
and wagons and the weights they carry, for ordering
the receipt and delivery of goods, and for storing the
same.
The Minister may from time to time, by a notice
in the New Zealand Gazette, make rules and regula-
tions for the guidance and observance of the officers
and men employed on the railways, and for the
conduct of the traffic thereon.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

By-laws and Regulations under which the Rakaia
Bridge will be open for Ordinary Traffic (in substi-
tution of Regulations previously issued).

NORMANBY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
seventeenth day of December, 1878..

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

W
HEREAS by "The Public Works Act, 1876,"
it is, among other things, provided that the
Governor in Council may from time to time make,
alter, or revoke by-laws and regulations for regu-
lating the traffic on roads and bridges used both for
ordinary and railway traffic:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of
the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise
ordinary and railway traffic; and in further pursuance
and exercise of the said powers and authorities, and
with the like advice and consent, doth revoke all by-
laws and regulations in force at the date hereof,
authorizing or regulating traffic on, along, or across
the said bridge.

SCHEDULE.

1. All horses crossing the bridge which are not
   driven in harness, or led by bridle or halter, and all
   cattle, sheep, pigs, goats, mules, and donkeys, must
   have a man behind and before them.
2. Horses or light-wheeled vehicles will not be
   allowed to enter upon the bridge within fifteen
   minutes, drays within thirty minutes, and cattle and
   sheep or pigs within one hour of the advertised time
   of arrival and departure of any train from the
   Rakaia Railway Station.
3. Horsemen or wheeled vehicles will not be
   allowed to travel at a greater rate than six miles an
   hour across the bridge.
4. Traction engines will not be permitted on the
   bridge otherwise than on the goods wagons in use on
   the railways. Portable engines employed in agricul-
   ture, flax-dressing, or other purposes may pass over
   the bridge on their own wheels, provided they have
   not fewer than four travelling wheels, with tires not
   less than five inches broad, the cylinder not more
   than eleven inches in diameter if single, or eight
   inches if double; the weight, without water, not ex-
   ceeding four tons and a half; and all fire must be
   drawn at least half a mile distant from the bridge.
5. No greater weight than three tons gross on any
   one pair of wheels with tires less than five inches
   wide will be permitted to cross the bridge.
6. The restrictions provided in clause 2 for adver-
   tised trains shall be in force with respect to special
   trains, but any authorized officer of the Railway
   Department may, at his discretion, relax any of such
   restrictions as the case may require.
7. Any person or persons entering upon the bridge
   within the prohibited hours, or resisting the gate-
   keepers in the execution of their duties, will be subject
   to the penalty hereinafter mentioned.
8. Any person in a state of intoxication will not
   be permitted to enter upon the bridge whilst in such
   condition.
9. Any person offending against any of these
   regulations will be liable to a penalty not exceeding
   ten pounds.
10. So far as applicable the general by-laws and
    regulations for the time being respectively in force
    and affecting the traffic on the New Zealand railways
    shall extend and apply to the Rakaia Bridge.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

By-laws and Regulations under which the Ashburton
Bridge will be open for Ordinary Traffic (in substi-
tution of Regulations previously issued).

NORMANBY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
seventeenth day of December, 1878.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

W
HEREAS by "The Public Works Act, 1876,"
it is, among other things, provided that the
Governor in Council may from time to time make,
alter, or revoke by-laws and regulations for regulating
the traffic on roads and bridges used both for ordinary
and railway traffic:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of
the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise