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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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17. If any goods carried by the company are left on the premises of the company, and the owner thereof or the person liable for the charges thereon is not known, the manager may cause it to be notified that such goods will be sold upon a day named in such notice not less than one month from the publication thereof. If such goods are not removed and the charges thereon paid before such day the said goods may be sold. The balance of the proceeds of such sale, after deducting the expenses of such sale and the charges on such goods, shall be held by the company, and shall be paid by the company to any person establishing a lawful claim thereto.

18. If the company 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 upon refunding the amount so paid to him. If he declines to do so the goods shall forthwith become the property of the company.

PART IV.
Time-table.

1. The company reserves the right whenever it shall be deemed expedient from time to time without notice to alter the hour of departure of any train or trains or omit the running of any train or trains.

2. The company shall not be responsible for any delay in the arrival or departure of any train or trains, or for any deviation or omission from the time-table of the company for the time being in force.

PART V.
Offences and Penalties.

1. No passenger or other person shall do or attempt to do any of the acts or things following, that is to say,–

(i.) Smoke in any carriage or compartment or in any waiting-room, station, or covered platform, except in a carriage or compartment especially appointed for that purpose.

(ii.) Take into any carriage or compartment for the purpose of carrying the same therein any luggage, parcel, or package for which there is not room under the seat occupied by such passenger or in the rack above such seat.

(iii.) Wilfully do any damage, injury, or spoil to any part of any carriage, trucks, engines, land, buildings, or any other property of the company.

(iv.) Take into or place upon any station or in or upon any carriage, wagon, truck, or other vehicle forming part of any train, any loaded firearms or other dangerous or objectionable goods.

(v.) Take into any passenger-carriage any dog or other animal or bird except as directed by the guard of the train.

(vi.) Enter or leave any carriage whilst the train is in motion.

(vii.) Occupy more than one seat in any passenger-carriage.

(viii.) Travel on any part of a train not appropriated for the conveyance of passengers, or on the platform of any carriage.

(ix.) Enter or leave any carriage elsewhere than at the side adjoining the platform, or other place appointed for passengers to enter or leave carriages.

(x.) Enter any station, platform, or carriage whilst in a state of intoxication.

(xi.) Use any obscene, profane, blasphemous, or abusive language in any carriage or upon any part of a station.

(xii.) Write any obscene, profane, blasphemous, or otherwise improper language, or make any obscene, profane, blasphemous, or otherwise improper picture, drawing, or representation, on any part of a station or carriage or any other property whatsoever of the company.

(xiii.) Commit any nuisance on any part of a station or carriage or any other property whatsoever of the company.

(xiv.) Wilfully do any act interfering with the comfort or convenience of any passenger or passengers.

(xv.) Without the special permission of some servant of the company for the time being engaged upon a train, travel in any carriage of a class superior to that for which his ticket was issued.

(xvi.) Interfere with or impede any servant of the company in the performance of his duty.

(xvii.) Give or offer any gratuity to any servant of the company.

(xviii.) Sell or offer for sale any free pass, ticket, or portion of a return ticket.

(xix.) Without a license from the company issued by the manager, or otherwise than as by such license provided, sell or offer for sale any articles of any kind whatsoever in any carriage forming part of a train.

(xx.) Without the express consent of the company enter or be upon or pass over or along any part of the company’s railway except at any authorised crossing over the same, and except at or upon such stations, platforms, warehouses, sheds, offices, or other places thereon as shall be or have been established and appropriated by the company for the purposes of and in connection with the passenger and goods traffic upon the said railway, and the approaches to such places respectively. Any person who without such express consent or authority as aforesaid shall enter or be upon or pass along or over any part of the said railway except as hereinbefore excepted shall be deemed to be a trespasser upon the said railway within the provisions of “The District Railways Act, 1877.”

(xxi.) Permit any cattle to be at large without proper guidance or to wander or to be herded or grazed upon any part of the company’s railway.

2. Every person who shall do, or cause or procure to be done, anything contrary to or otherwise than as provided by these by-laws or any section or part of a section thereof, or who shall omit to do anything therein required to be done by him, shall be deemed guilty of an offence.

3. Each person guilty of an offence against these by-laws shall be liable for each such offence to such penalty, not exceeding £10, as the Court inflicting the same shall in its discretion think fit.

4. The owner of any cattle being at large without proper guidance or wandering or grazing upon any part of the company’s railway shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding 40s. for every head of such cattle.

5. Any person infringing or not observing any of these by-laws on any lands, premises, wagon, carriage, truck, or vehicle belonging to the company may without prejudice to any penalty prescribed by these by-laws be removed by or under the direction of any servant or agent of the company from such lands, premises, wagon, carriage, truck, or vehicle.

These by-laws were duly made by the Castlecliff Railway Company (Limited) by order made the 5th day of April, 1905.

The common seal of the Castlecliff Railway Company (Limited) was hereto affixed in the presence [L.S.]
of—

J. L. STEVENSON,
Chairman, Castlecliff Railway Company (Limited),
JOHN WILLIAM PEAKE,
Director, Castlecliff Railway Company (Limited),

And of

C. E. MACKAY,
Solicitor, Wanganui.

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THE NEW ZEALAND OIL-WELLS PROPRIETARY (NO LIABILITY).

NOTICE is hereby given that the above company intends to voluntarily cease to carry on business in New Zealand, having on the 25th day of March, 1905, passed, at Adelaide, a resolution for winding up the company voluntarily.

Dated 3rd day of April, 1905.

CLEMEN T WILLIAM GOVETT,
Attorney for the New Zealand Oil-wells Proprietary (No Liability) and the Liquidator.

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THE TARANAKI NEWS COMPANY (LIMITED), (IN LIQUIDATION).

A GENERAL MEETING of the above company will be held at the Borough Council Chambers, New Plymouth, on Friday, the 5th day of May, 1905, at 7.30 p.m., for the purpose of enabling the liquidators to lay an account before such meeting showing the manner in which such winding-up has been conducted and the assets of the company disposed of, and to offer any explanations they may wish to give.

Dated this 5th day of April, 1905.

GOVETT AND QUILLIAM,
Solicitors for the Liquidators.

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