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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

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.
35. 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.
36. No goods will be received for carriage or
carried upon a railway, except upon the following
conditions:-
(1.) That a "consignment note," on a form to
be obtained from the person in charge of
the station, properly filled in and signed by
or on behalf of the consignor, is handed to
the officer taking delivery of the goods at
the time of their delivery:
(2.) That the person delivering the goods ob-
tains at the same time a written receipt for
the same, signed by the officer to whom
they are delivered.
37. The Minister will not be responsible for any
loss or damage in respect to any goods received for
carriage or carried on a railway under any of the
following circumstances, that is to say,-
(1.) If the above-mentioned consignment note
is not delivered with the goods, or the re-
ceipt not obtained for the same.
(2.) If the goods are wrongly or insufficiently
described on the consignment note.
(3.) If the goods are allowed to remain on the
premises of the railway for more than
twelve working hours after their arrival at
the station to which they are addressed.
(4.) If they are put into packages described as
" empties."
(5.) If they are insufficiently or insecurely
packed, or if articles liable by breakage or
leakage to damage one another are packed
in the same package.
(6.) If the loss or damage arises from the act of
God, civil commotions, Queen's enemies,
or from fire (except from the railway en-
gines or apparatus), or from accidental
delays in transit occurring from either of
these causes.
38. The following goods are hereby declared to be
special goods, within the meaning of "The Public
Works Act, 1876:"-
Bank notes.
Bills of exchange.
Carriages.
Castings.
Cattle.
China.
Clocks.
Drays.
Engravings.
Furniture.
Furs.
Glass.
Gold or silver coin.
Gold or silver plate.
Gold or silver, manu-
factured.
Gold or silver, un-
manufactured.
Horses.
Jewellery.
Lace.
Machinery.

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Any package the contents of which are of higher
value than five hundred pounds.
39. The consignment note accompanying any spe-
cial goods must state them to be "special," and must
set forth their nature and value. Unless such state-
ment and declaration is made, the Minister is not
responsible for any loss or damage to a greater extent
than fifteen pounds in respect to any horse, eight
pounds in respect to any neat cattle, fifteen shillings
in respect of any sheep or swine, and ten pounds in
respect of any package in which any special goods
are contained. All special goods exceeding in value
the above-mentioned sums shall be subject to a
charge, in addition to the ordinary freight, by way of
insurance, according to a scale of rates of insurance
to be from time to time published by the Minister in
that behalf. The Minister will not be responsible
for the contents of packages sent as special goods
unless the goods are unpacked and examined by the
railway officers; the expense of such examination,
unpacking, and repacking to be borne by the con-
signor.
40. If the value of any special goods stated on the
consignment note appears to the officer receiving
the same to be extravagant or fictitious, or if
the goods are of a nature to be extraordinarily liable
to damage, such officer may refuse to receive them
without the instructions of the General Manager.
And the General Manager may, by the authority of
and on behalf of the Minister, make such special
agreement for the carriage of such goods, on such
terms as to insurance or otherwise, as he thinks fit;
or, if no such special agreement is come to, may re-
fuse to receive or carry such goods on the railway
except at the sole risk of the consignor; and, upon
notice in writing to the consignor to that effect
given to the consignor by the General Manager, the
Minister shall not be liable to any claim for loss or
damage from any cause whatsoever in respect of such
goods. Such notice may be served upon the con-
signor or his agent, or either of them, or may be left
at the last known place of abode or business of either
of them.
41. Any claim for loss or damage must be 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.
42. 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.
The following are, amongst others, declared to be
dangerous goods: Benzoline and all other dangerous
oils, bisulphide of carbon, blasting powders, bleach-
ing liquids, bromine, cartridges, chloride of sulphur,
cotton gunpowder, dynamite, fireworks, fluoric acid,
fog signals, fusees, gasoline, gazogen, gun cotton,
gunpowder, lucifer-matches, muriatic acid or spirit
of salts, naphtha, napthaline, nitrate of iron, nitric
acid, oil of vitrol or sulphuric acid, oily canvas or oily
paper for packing, oily rags or oily waste, perchloride
of iron, petroleum, phosphorus, pudrolythe, pyrolithe,
or other materials or compounds liable to sudden
ignition or explosion; and the Minister may, at his
option, refuse to receive or carry such goods.
43. Fruit, fish, meat, poultry, and any other perish-
able articles, shall be carried only at the sole risk of

Maps.
Marble goods.
Musical instruments.
Notes or securities for
payment of money.
Orders for ditto.
Paintings.
Pictures.
Pigs.
Plated articles.
Precious stones:
Sheep.
Silks.
Slate goods.
Stamps.
Title-deeds.
Toys.
Trinkets.
Wagons.
Watches.
Writings.